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• PKK and PAJK prisoners have begun hunger strike 

  PKK and PAJK prisoners began today a three-day hunger strike to protest against the isolation regime imposed on Abdullah Öcalan, and to demand the release of ill prisoners
• Academics for Peace trials continue 

  Trials against the academics who signed a petition titled “We won’t be party to this crime” continue. The academics say their manifesto constitutes no crime.
• Violation of rights in Elazig and Kayseri prisons 

  Prisoners are being subjected to heavy abuses and violence in Elazig and Kayseri prisons.
• Lawyer applied to visit Öcalan for 786th time 

  Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers have applied for a visit with their client for the 786th time.
• British unions endorsed Freedom for Öcalan campaign 

  The 150th Congress of the British Union Trade Union (TUC) has begun on Monday.
• Van Court sentenced Kurdish politicians to prison - NEW 

  A Court in Van has overruled the sentence by the Court of Cassation.
• Cyprus received record number of refugees 

  Cyprus appealed to the EU after record number of refugee arrivals on its shores.
• Bodies of three Kurdish activists executed not given to families 

  The bodies of three Kurdish activists executed on Saturday in Iran have not been given to their families for burial.
• HDP Women's Council condemned Iranian execution of Kurds 

  HDP Women's Council condemned the Iranian regime execution of Kurdish activists. 
• Political Prisoners: Hunger strike against isolation 

  Three-day hunger strike to protest against the isolation regime imposed on Kurdish People’s Leader, Abdullah Öcalan, and to demand the release of ill prisoners.
• Demonstration in solidarity with Saturday Mothers in Basel 

  A demonstration was held in the Claraplatz Square on the HDK-Basel Women’s Assembly’s call.
• Iran executed three Kurdish political prisoners 

  This Saturday, three Kurdish young men have been executed: Ramin Hossein Panahi, Zanyar Muradi and Loqman Murad.
• The Iranian regime executed Ramin Hossein Panahi 

  The Iranian regime has carried out the death sentence delivered to Penahi this Saturday despite international protests.
• Freedom for Öcalan campaign to land at TUC Congress 

  Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan will be demanded at the TUC (Trade Union Congress) to be held in Manchester between 9 and 12 September. 
• Zaynar Muradi's mum: They will execute them, do something! 

  Kurdish political prisoners Zanyar and Luqman Muradi, who were sentenced to death, will be executed on Saturday morning in Iran.
• Saturday Mothers will be in Galatasaray Square tomorrow 

  Despite the ban by the authorities, the Saturday Mothers will gather in Galatasaray Square to mark weel 702 of their quest for justice action
• Two Kurdish cousins to be executed in Iran 

  Kurdish prisoners Zanyar Muradi and Luqman Muradi are reportedly going to be executed in Iran.
• Violations of rights exposed in Bayburt M Type Closed Prison 

  Prisoners in Bayburt M Type Closed Prison denounced the violence and oppression they are subjected to.
• Lawyers staged Vigil for Justice 

  Lawyers gathered at the opening of the judicial year to continue Vigil for their detained colleagues in front of Caglayan Istanbul Courthouse
• Rojhilat refugees in Hewler called on UN for help 

  Rojhilat refugees in Hewler are living in very difficult conditions. The refugees called on the United Nations (UN) to help them finding a settlement place. 
• IHD delegation prevented to reach fires area in Dersim 

  The Human Rights Association delegation was stopped by the gendarmes and prevented to reach Kutudere
• Women in Armenia call on international circles to act for Öcalan 

  Women in Armenia sent a letter to international circles for the freedom of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Woman Prisoner detained treatment 

  Dicle Bozan was abandoned to death in Elazığ T Type Prison. She needed to be operated but once the “machine was broken”, another there was “no doctor”.
• “The isolation of Öcalan means insisting on war” 

  Academics from the Halabja University stated that the isolation imposed upon Öcalan goes against all faiths and humane values, and that insisting on the isolation means insisting on war.
• Young people take over Vigil for Öcalan in Strasbourg 

  The Vigil demanding the freedom of Kurdish People's Leadership Abdullah Öcalan, was this week carried out by young people from Paris.