PFLP visits Leyla Güven on day 170 of hunger strike
Hasan’s visit came after PFLP Politbureau Member Leila Khaled’s visit to Güven last week. Halid had brought greetings to Güven from PFLP Secretary General Ahmed Saadet.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Secretary General Ahmed Saadet’s lawyer Mahmud Hasan visited Leyla Güven, who is on a hunger strike protesting the isolation of Öcalan.
Mahmud Hasan visited DTK Co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven, who has been on a hunger strike for 170 days protesting the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, in her home and spoke to the press after the visit.
Hasan’s visit came after PFLP Politbureau Member Leila Khaled’s visit to Güven last week. Khalid had brought greetings to Güven from PFLP Secretary General Ahmed Saadet.
In his statement to the press, Hasan said Güven is “a very strong and forceful woman”.
Hasan said Güven’s struggle with her hunger strike is for peace: “One of the most fundamental demands of Güven is the end of the isolation imposed upon Ocalan. Isolation is one of the worst punishments. Nobody can be subjected to isolation that long. There is no law in the world that stipulates such punishment.”
Hasan said he believes Güven’s hunger strike will result in success and stressed that “the struggle will achieve its goal and the isolation will end”.
Hasan added that there is a similar process in Palestine similar to what the Kurds are going through and said: “There the Israeli state has military courts and these courts arrest Palestinian citizens, and punish them with isolation.”
400 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons had launched an indefinite hunger strike in April to protest the rights violations they were subjected to. PFLP Secretary General Saadet had also participated in the hunger strike.
Hasan said families in the Gaza region are unable to see their children in Israeli prisons.
Hasan said: “Palestinian activists have been holding hunger strikes in recent times. Then Israeli administrators allowed the Palestinian prisoners to meet with their families. They gave back the right to phone calls which was taken away. We will see whether Israeli administrators fulfill their promises in practice, or whether the agreements will yield results.”
