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• Delegation chaired by Dilek Ocalan meets with CPT 

  The CPT had published their latest report on Imrali in March, but the report was based on a visit back in 2016. There was nothing in the report about Ocalan’s current conditions.
• Eren Keskin: Lawyers will continue to fight 

  Lawyers from the Contemporary Lawyers Association (ÇHD) and Halkin Hukuk Bürosu (HHB) were arrested again within 24 hours after their release. 
• Prisoners made to work under slavery conditions in Van 

  AKP’s Tusba Municipality in Van is turning a profit through the production of bread using forced labor by prisoners for very low wages. Bakers in the city are angry at the municipality.
• Prisoners hold hunger strike against pressure 

  As the oppression and torture grows every day in Van and Patnos prisons, prisoners have launched a hunger strike in protest.
• HDP appeals for prisoner Kartal 

  HDP Co-chairs Pervin Buldan and Sezai Temelli have made an appeal on ill prisoner Vefa Kartal to the democratic public opinion. Kartal has been on a death fast for 90 days.
• Protest for prisoners in front of Van prison 

  HDP and families exposed ongoing violations of prisoners’ rights.
• Desecrated corpses of guerrilla fighters unidentifiable 

  Relatives of fallen guerrilla fighters report that the lifeless bodies have been desecrated and are in an unidentifiable state.
• Freedom Vigil activists protest ECHR and European countries 

  Kurds from Normandy who took over the watch demonstration for Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan’s freedom stressed that they will stand against the unlawful verdict issued by the ECHR.
• HDP’s Oluç: Saturday Mothers will not bow to pressure 

  The HDP spokesperson said the Saturday Mothers will continue demanding justice and truth for the people who disappeared in custody.
• Jailed teacher on hunger strike beaten and threatened 

  'Disciplinary punishments' are used as an excuse to deny the transfer of Meral Donmez from Tarsus Prison to Istanbul. The teacher has been on hunger strike for 29 days and has lost a lot of weight.
• Demonstrations against the isolation of Ocalan across Europe 

  Abdullah Öcalan's aggravated isolation conditions and the silence of European institutions were condemned yesterday in Strasbourg, Paris, Graz, Basel, Lucerne, Stockholm, Marseille, Amsterdam, Montpellier and Vienna.
• Demonstration for Ocalan in Toulouse 

  The isolation of the Kurdish leader, Abdullah Ocalan, was condemned in Toulouse city of France.
• Protest against the isolation of Ocalan in Oslo 

  Kurds protested against the isolation of Abdullah Ocalan in Oslo, Norway.
• Buldan: The ECHR verdict shows Europe’s approach towards Kurds 

  HDP Co-chair Pervin Buldan protested the ECHR rejecting Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan’s appeal and said the verdict shows how European countries approach the Kurds.
• ECHR ignores the torture of Kurdish leader Öcalan - UPDATE 

  The ECHR assessed the appeal for Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan and argued that there is not enough evidence that he has been tortured.
• Appeal for Öcalan to be heard in the ECHR tomorrow 

  On Thursday, September 27 the ECHR will hear the appeal regarding Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan being forcibly shaved and the death threats he received in 2008.
• Conspiracy deepens in Imrali  

  Since Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan was taken hostage with the international conspiracy, the Turkish state has resorted to isolation due to his reflection in society and politics and his paradigms in favor of the Middle Eastern peoples.
• Women’s Initiative UK takes over Öcalan Vigil 

  The Freedom for Öcalan Watch in Strasbourg, France was taken over by the Women’s Initiative UK this week.
• Van youth protest the isolation of Öcalan 

  HDP Youth Assembly members held a festival with the motto, “We started young we will finish young” and protested the policies of war and isolation.
• 14-month-old Baby Arin wastes away in prison 

  Health issues of 14-month-old Baby Arin, staying with mother Esma Yilmaz in prison, are increasing. Father Mihdi Yilmaz said, “If there isn’t enough humanity left to protect a child, I have nothing to say.”
• Police batter Saturday Mothers in 704th week demonstration 

  Relatives of the disappeared protested the arbitrary practice and started marching towards the Galatasaray Square, upon which they were attacked by the police.
• 6 more months of no visitation for Öcalan 

  Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan has been banned from meeting with his lawyers for 6 more months. Meetings held 10 years ago were cited as the reason for the ban.
• Police attack the Saturday Mothers in Istanbul 

  The police attacked the Saturday Mothers’ gathering for their disappeared relatives. The crowd responded by chanting. The attack continues.
• Has Öcalan been issued “disciplinary punishment”? 

  Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan’s family was prevented from visiting him with a new arbitrary excuse this time, stating that Öcalan was issued a disciplinary punishment.
• Cameras turned off and prisoners attacked in Elazig 

  Wardens in the Elazig Prison turned off the cameras to attack the prisoners, including the elderly prisoners, who all say they won’t bow down.