A new website, Vigil for Öcalan, was launched to mark the 24th anniversary of the beginning of the international conspiracy against Kurdish people's leader.

Presenting the new website, the organizers wrote: "A few days before launching this website, we heard that the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) had just made a visit to the Kurdish leader, Abdullah Öcalan, in the Turkish island prison of Imralı. This visit has been an insistent demand from those who care about Kurdish freedom, peace in the Middle East, and basic human rights; but what have we gained from it – and how did we come to be struggling for such a basic step?"

The organisers continued: "Öcalan has been in Imralı for over 23 years, since being abducted in 1999 by an international conspiracy. He was quickly condemned to death, and the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment without parole when Turkey abolished the death penalty. In 2005, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights ruled that his trial was unfair, but nothing has been done to remedy this."

The webpage offers information about the life, writing, philosophy and legal process of Öcalan. In addition, the page also explained the role and importance of the Freedom for Öcalan Vigil which has been held in Strasbourg since 25 June 2012.