The hunger strike campaign to demand the removal of the isolation of the Kurdish People’s Leader, Abdullah Ocalan, continues in several countries with new activists joining the growing campaign every day.

Kurdish activist İmam Şiş has been on an indefinite and non-alternating hunger strike in Wales for 47 days. Despite experiencing fatigue, headache and low blood sugar, he continues his action with a high spirit. Şiş is visited by Kurdish people and friends at the Kurdish Democratic Society Center in Newport on daily basis. When there are less visits, Şiş reads books and closely follows the news. On some occasions he speaks to the papers and explains the purpose behind his hunger strike.

With the many people who are paying solidarity visits from Wales and other regions of England, the Kurdish hunger strike activist discusses the historic developments that are taking place, telling that they are prepared to pay any price, always confident that they will definitevely succeed.

Şiş highlighted the question of Kurdish people’s freedom with the following comments, “There is a deep injustice problem. Kurdistan is occupied, for instance, hundreds of thousands were forced into displacement and hundreds were murdered in Afrin. Threats against Rojava are still in place. At such time when threats and attacks are growing and the isolation of Ocalan has been aggravated even more, it is not right to continue life in a normal way. How can we be accepting this disgrace? No, we shall not accept it. Our demands are social, our demands are righteous, and they are the demands of millions. Therefore our goals and our resistance is great, and we will prevail,” said Şiş.