Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan has been held as a political hostage on the prison island of Imrali, most of the time under conditions of total isolation, since his arrest and deportation to Turkey as a result of an international conspiracy on 15 February 1999.
Kurds and their friends are going into action all around the world to demand the lifting of Abdullah Öcalan's incommunicado detention and the resumption of peace negotiations and conditions for the Kurdish leader in which he can live and work freely in order to contribute to the solution to the Kurdish question.
Activists of the Kurdish Revolutionary Youth Movement Tevgera Ciwanên Şoreşger staged a march in the Parisian suburb of Melun on Monday to demand freedom for Abdullah Öcalan.
The march was followed by a rally in the town center, where activists denounced the aggravated isolation regime imposed on the Kurdish leader who has not been heard from for two years.