HUMAN RIGHTS

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• Third group of prisoners takes over hunger strike  

  The third hunger strike group in prisons took over the protest.
• HDP MP: The demands of the hunger strikers must be met 

  Habip Eksik, an HDP deputy and physician, describes Abdullah Öcalan's isolation as a blatant violation of the law and says that the Turkish Ministry of Justice must immediately negotiate with the hunger-striking prisoners.
• Two prisoners on hunger strike in Düzce 

  The hunger strike resistance in prison continues with further participation.
• Women prisoners: On hunger strike to break isolation of Öcalan 

  Women prisoners on hunger strike said the aim of their action is to break the isolation imposed on Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan. "The aim is the freedom of our Leader," they said.
• Former DBP co-chair Sebahat Tuncel joins hunger strike 

  The DBP former co-chair, Sebahat Tuncel, who is in Kocaeli Kandıra No 1 F Type High Security Prison since 2016, has announced she will go on hunger strike against the isolation policy imposed on Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Prisoners on hunger strike denied medicine and face repression 

  Prisoners on hunger strike in Antalya L Type Prison said they face repression and are not given their medicines.
• Prisoners in Van join the hunger strike 

  It has been learned that 7 prisoners in Van have been hunger strike for 4 days.
• Condition of prisoner Turan getting worse 

  The situation of disabled prisoners Ergin Aktaş, Serdal Yıldırım and Abdullah Turan, is getting worse.
• Call for 16-year-old Erbaş killed by Turkish soldiers in Hakkari 

  IHD Children's Rights Commission urged Turkish authorities to launch an investigation into the soldiers who killed a 16-year-old, Özcan Erbaş in Hakkari province.
• Signatures collected for Dağ and Er to be submitted to the UN 

  The signatures collected for Mazlum Dağ and Abdurrahman Er, who received capital punishment in Southern Kurdistan, will be delivered to the UN and European institutions.
• Kalkandere L Type Prison became a torture center 

  Prisoner Serhat Karsu, held in a solitary cell in Rize Kalkandere L Type Prison, was tortured and his belongings were confiscated.
• Second groups have taken over the hunger strike in prisons 

  The second groups have taken over the alternating hunger strike launched in prisons by political prisoners to denounce the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Prisoners on hunger strike: We'll resist till isolation is lifted 

  The prisoners on hunger strike against the Imrali isolation send a message: "We will be on hunger strike until the isolation is lifted."
• Contact ban for Zeynab Jalalian 

  For three weeks now, an arbitrary ban on contact has been in effect for Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian, who is being held in Iran. According to human rights activists, she is under pressure to "show remorse" and to "cooperate" with the regime.
• Prisoners on hunger strike: Give voice to our action 

  The prisoners on hunger strike called on the public to "give a voice to our action".
• Second groups to take over the hunger strike in prisons tomorrow 

  The second groups will take over the hunger strike launched by political prisoners to denounce the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Prisoner Rojbin Çetin gets no treatment for cancer 

  Prisoner Rojbin Çetin, who is suffering from cancer, is not being treated.
• British government rejects call for Finucane inquiry 

  The British government has again refused to establish a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane, the 39-year-old defence lawyer shot dead in front of his family in Belfast in 1989 by paramilitaries acting on direction of the British Armed Forces.
• Hunger strike in prisons on day 4 

  PKK and PAJK prisoners in Turkey started indefinite and alternating hunger strike hunger strikes on November 27.
• Today the Finucane Family meets British Secretary of State 

  Today the Finucane Family meet British Secretary of State Brandon Lewis to hear how the British government will respond to the Supreme Court ruling that previous investigations into the murder of human rights lawyer Patrick Finucane, were not effective.
• Guards search cells of Kurdish politicians Kocaeli Kandira prison 

  The cells of Kurdish politicians held in Kocaeli Kandıra No 1 F Type High Security Prison were searched.
• Ebru Timtik honored with CCBE posthumous Human Rights Award 

  The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) granted its 2020 Human Rights Award to seven Egyptian lawyers currently in prison and granted an exceptional posthumous Human Rights Award to Turkish lawyer Ebru Timtik who died in August 2020.
• IHD demands Ruken Yıldız release in weekly action for prisoners 

  This week the "F Session" was dedicated to prisoner Ruken Yıldız, who suffers from severe heart, blood pressure and anaemia. The IHD asked for Yıldız to be released.
• No justice for Roboski means no justice for Turkey 

  Already 3,258 days have passed since the Roboski massacre. The responsible of that massacre remained unpunished. But no justice for Roboski also means no justice for Turkey.
• Tribute to Tahir Elçi in Amed: Your dream is our dream 

  Five years after the killing Tahir Elçi, at the scene of the crime in the old cental district of Sur, the Amed Bar Association remembered the human rights lawyer: "Your dream of a democratic, free and peaceful life is also our dream.”