KCDK-E: Mazlum Dora's hunger strike achieved its purpose
The KCDK-E made a statement about artist Mazlum Dora, who is on hunger strike in Stammheim prison in Stuttgart, and said, "The hunger strike has achieved its purpose."
The European Democratic Kurdistan Society Congress (KCDK-E) made a written statement regarding Activist and Artist Mazlum Dora, who was arrested on 11 May 2021 and has been on hunger strike since 21 September in Stammheim prison, protesting the repression by the German state on Kurdish activists and institutions.
The statement, which underlined that the hunger strike carried out by Mazlum Dora achieved its purpose, said: "The artist was arrested on 11 May 2021 and imprisoned in Stammheim prison because of his cultural and artistic activities. Dora was detained and arrested shortly after the visit of the then Turkish Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu to Berlin. Although there was not enough evidence against him, he was sentenced to 3 years and 3 months in prison, according to Article 129b of the German Criminal Code (StGB), because his activities were evaluated as organizational activity."
Mazlum Dora has been on an indefinite and non-alternating hunger strike since 21 September, and is protesting the imposition of 129b, the raids on Kurdish institutions and the ill-treatment of Kurdish political prisoners.
The KCDK-E said: “We support the justified actions of political prisoners who are subjected to repression in German prisons that is similar to that in Turkish prisons. The hunger strike carried out by Mazlum Dora created active public opinion. Many Germans and Kurds showed solidarity and gave strength to the action. With his protest, Dora underlined the demands of dozens of political prisoners in jail because of their opinions, and protested the medieval repression practices implemented by the German state.
Mazlum Dora has become the voice of dozens of prisoners in German jails. The hunger strike action he continues as KCDK-E has raised awareness and, therefore, it would be meaningful for him to end the action and continue his struggle on different grounds. On this occasion, we demand once again that arbitrary practices against political prisoners in German prisons be put to an end and that they be released immediately."
