Over the last few weeks Peace in Kurdistan campaign and CAMPACC have been encouraging people to join a new initiative to Free Adem Uzun from custody in Paris. So far there was a great response, with nearly 150 people declaring themselves a friend of Adem Uzun.

Soon the appeal and the list of signatories will be sent to the Justice Minister of France, Christiane Taubira, so the Campaign is calling on "anyone who has not yet become a friend of Adem to join us".

The Kurdish politician Adem Uzun was arrested in France on 6 October 2012. Having been denied bail, Uzun remains in detention awaiting a trial which could be months away. Adem Uzun is a prominent activist working to achieve peace through the resumption of negotiations between Turkey and the Kurds. A leading politician with the Kurdistan National Congress, KNK, Adem is well-known to anyone involved in the Kurdish issue, especially in the European Parliament, and has been one of the main Kurdish negotiators in the so-called "Oslo Process" with high-level Turkish Government's representatives.The charge against Adem Uzun is not supported by credible evidence. At the time of his arrest, Adem Uzun was in Paris to take part in preparations for a conference on Western Kurdistan (Syria), which was scheduled to take place on 13 October 2012.