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• HDP Member Yagiz's health deteriorates on day 51 of hunger strike 

  The hunger strike in HewIer is on its 51st day. HDP Council Member Nasir Yagiz's situation is getting worse.
• Kurdish lawyer arrested in Urmia 

  Masoud Shamsenejad, a Kurdish university professor and lawyer, was arrested on Tuesday, January 8, by Iranian intelligence and transferred to the Urmia Intelligence Office detention center.
• Maxmur hunger strikers: The goal is to free Ocalan 

  Activists from the 9th group of hunger strike pointed out to the activities initiated against the aggravated isolation of the Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan, and said: “Our main goal is to remove the isolation and free Leader Apo.”
• Iran arrested 12 Kurdish civil activists in one week 

  The Islamic Republic of Iran’s intelligence agencies have arrested twelve civil and environmental activists within a week in Rojhilat, East Kurdistan.
• Unexpected development in Kirkuk 

  The PUK has put the Regional Administration flag, which was taken down throughout Kirkuk, back up in the official institutions under their control.
• Cinema shut down due to movie about Sakine Cansız 

  Security forces have closed a cinema in the southern Kurdistan city of Sulaymaniyah to prevent the screening of a film about Kurdish revolutionary Sakine Cansız.
• Hunger strike in Hewlêr reached day 50 

  The hunger strike action was taken over by the 25th group of activists.
• New group took over the hunger strike in Sulaymaniyah 

  Anew group of activists took over the hunger strike action launched in Sulaymaniyah to protest against the isolation imposed upon Abdullah Öcalan in the Imrali Prison in Turkey.
• Turkish jets bomb Heftanin 

  Turkish attacks against southern Kurdistan, northern Iraq, continue.
• Families apply to get the remains of their children 

  Some of the families trying to recover the remains of their children exhumed from Garzan Cemetery have applied to Bitlis prosecutor’s office.
• Kurdish musician threatened by the Iranian intelligence 

  On Sunday, January 6, Ali Abedi, a Kurdish musician from Saqez city, Rojhilat, was summoned by the Iranian intelligence and was interrogated for several hours.
• Nusaybin co-mayor, Sara Kaya remains in prison 

  "The investigation about me is a well prepared conspiracy. I believe I could not express myself sufficiently via SEGBIS. Therefore I want to defend myself by coming to the courtroom in person.”
• HPG remembers German guerrilla martyred last year 

  "Today, we remember our friend Şiyar Gabar and all fallen internationalist comrades who lost their lives in the liberation struggle of all oppressed peoples."
• KCK: The murderous AKP will be ended 

  KCK: On the 7th year of Sara’s martyrdom, the Kurdish Freedom Movement will develop the struggle further and end the AKP government that ordered the January 9 massacre.
• Iranian Intelligence arrested nine Kurdish activists in one week 

  On January 6, 2019, the Iranian intelligence arrested Amanj Ghorbani, a prominent environmental activist, and Bakhtiar Kamangar in the city of Kamyaran.
• Curfew in 10 regions in Amed countryside 

  The Kurdish region of Turkey remains under the blockade of the military.
• 10 people including 6 minors taken into custody in Amed 

  10 people including 6 children were taken under custody after hause raids in Amed as part of the Turkish regime’s ongoing political genocide operation against the Kurdish population.
• Hunger strike in Maxmur Camp reached day 24 

  The eight group of activists took over the hunger strike in Maxmur Camp.
• Hunger strike for Öcalan launched in Shengal 

  Representatives of the institutions in Shengal and civil society organisations will take over the action after three days.
• Nasir Yagiz: My protest will end when the isolation does 

  Nasir Yagiz has been on an indefinite and non-alternate hunger strike in the HDP Hewler Representation Offices for the last 46 days, and said he will end his protest when the isolation imposed upon Ocalan does.
• Kurdish political prisoners in Iran on solidarity hunger strike 

  Political prisoners of the KODAR and PJAK in the Islamic Republic of Iran's prisons have gone on a symbolic hunger strike in solidarity with Kurdish prisoners and politicians in North Kurdistan, Turkey and Europe.
• Iranian forces murder another kolbar 

  Kolbars are subjected to never-ending deadly attacks by Iranian forces.
• Kirkuk youth: We will not accept Turkish occupation 

  Participants of the Youth’s Conference in Kirkuk confirmed that they would stand firmly against all kinds of hostilities and policies against Kurdistan.
• 45th day of hunger strike in Hewler 

  The hunger strike launched in Hewler against the isolation is on its 45th day. Nasir Yagsiz also continues his indefinite and non-alternate hunger strike.
• Guerrilla Cesur fights using his martyred brothers’ names 

  HPG Member Eris Cesur’s name comes from his brothers. “We couldn’t get together in the mountains, we do in the struggle,” said Cesur as he likens the PKK to “pure milk with nothing to contaminate it”.