Under the leadership of the Initiative for the Freedom of Abdullah Öcalan, a ‘Freedom Vigil’ has been held in Strasbourg, France since 25 June 2012, in order to ensure the physical freedom of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and to end the isolation regime imposed on him in İmralı Island Prison where he has been held since 1999.

Mesut Dağhan, Ayşe Mutlu, Mehmet Elik, Ramazan Aslan and Deniz Tomas from Stuttgart took over the vigil action, which is undertaken by a group from different European countries every week, in its 634th week.

Mesut Dağhan made a statement on behalf of the group and said, “We call on the European Parliament and CPT to lift the isolation of the leader.”

Noting that no news has been received from Abdullah Öcalan, Dağhan added: “We call on our people to unite around the leader.”

Group member Ayşe Mutlu underlined that their resistance continues for the lifting of isolation and called on the Kurdish people to take to the streets to lift the isolation.