Kurdish politician Kadri Saka, who was detained in his home in Bremen on 16 January and sent to prison without any trial, went on hunger strike.

According to his lawyer, Ismail Cengiz, Kadri Saka said that his detention was not based on any material evidence, that he had been residing at the same address in Bremen for 10 years, but that the German Prosecutor's Office arrested him on the grounds of "suspicion of escape". To protest the prejudice against Kurds, Saka went on hunger strike.

Lawyer Cengiz said that Kadri Saka, born on 1 March 1966, was not taking anything other than tap water.

German police raided Bremen Kurdish Community Center on 16 January and arrested Kurdish politician Kadri Saka following a raid on his house. Saka was taken to Hamburg Prison.

Kadri Saka, from the village of Hespist in Şirnak's Hezex district, came to Germany and sought asylum in 1991 due to the pressures of the Turkish state. Kurdish politician Kadri Saka, is very well known within the Bremen Kurdish community, and had previously been subjected to harassment by the German police and judiciary and was last detained in 2022.