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• Berlin activists celebrate PYD's 19th anniversary 

  The PYD has existed for 19 years. The revolutionary party from Rojava celebrated its founding anniversary in Berlin.
• Fringe meeting on Turkey’s war on Kurds at Labour Party Conference 

  The Freedom for Öcalan Campaign will organize a fringe meeting on Turkey’s war on the Kurds.
• People in Freiburg and Hamburg protest murder of Jina Amini in Iran 

  Protests were held in Freiburg and Hamburg where people condemned the murder of Jina Amini in Iran.
• Arab and Kurdish representatives meet in Brussels 

  The conference was organized with the objective of developing economic, cultural and political relations between the two societies.
• HPG: Two Kurdish revolutionaries were extradited from Armenia to Turkey 

  According to HPG information, "comrades Leheng and Alişer" have been extradited from Armenia to Turkey. The HPG thus contradicts reports in the Turkish media, which reported a successful foreign operation by MIT.
• KNK: Kurds should unite around common goals 

  The KNK drew attention to the resistance in Rojhilat and Iran and said: "National unity should be strengthened and all forces should come together around common goals."
• YJA Star guerrilla Hatice Ay buried in Kulp 

  YJA Star guerrilla Hatice Ay, who fell a martyr in Dicle, was buried with the slogan "Martyr namirin" in her village.
• Lawyer Benkhelifa says Abdullah Öcalan should be released 

  Selma Benkhelifa is one of the hundreds of lawyers who applied to visit Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan in Imrali.
• Labour and Freedom Alliance holds first public meeting today 

  The Labour and Freedom Alliance will hold its first public meeting today in Istanbul.
• Demirtaş and Mızraklı shave their hair for Mahsa Amini 

  The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) announced that its jailed former Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş and Amed’s Co-mayor Selçuk Mızraklı had shaved their hair for Mahsa Amini who was murdered by the morality police in Tehran.
• Abdullah Öcalan's family applies for a visit  

  Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan's family and his guardian applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and Imralı Prison Directorate for a visit.
• New York-based non-governmental organization says at least 36 people killed in Iran protests 

  A New York-based non-governmental organization reported that at least 36 people were killed in protest actions in Iran and East Kurdistan in the last week.
• Activists from Oldenbourg take over Freedom for Öcalan Vigil in Strasbourg 

  Speaking on behalf of the new group that took over the Freedom for Öcalan, Tori Akan said: “Unless our Leader is free and our lands are liberated, we are not free either."
• At least 34 refugees die when boat sunk off Syrian-Lebanese coast 

  A boat carrying refugees has sunk off the Syrian-Lebanese coast. 34 people died and 14 were saved.
• Four prisoners deported in haste 

  Prisoners Mehmet Aytunç Altay, Hasan Yıldız, Suat Incedere and Eren Yıldız, who were held in Edirne F Type Prison and in the same cell, were hastily deporte d to other prisons at midnight on Wednesday.
• KCDK-E salutes the resistance for Mahsa Amini in Iran and East Kurdistan 

  The European Kurdistan Democratic Societies Congress Co-Presidency saluted women's resistance after the murder of Mahsa Amini in Iran and Rojhilat (West) Kurdistan.
• Iran restricts access to social media networks as protests over death of Jina Amini grow 

  Iran has restricted access to social media networks Instagram and WhatsApp amid protests over the death of Jina Amini in police custody, according to residents and internet watchdog NetBlocks.
• KCDK-E thanks all those who took part in 30th Kurdish Culture Festival 

  The KCDK-E co-chairs issued a message thanking all those who took part in the 30th Kurdish Culture Festival in the Netherlands. .
• Our objection to a judge who lost his impartiality has been rejected, says lawyer Eren 

  Lawyer Serhat Eren said that lawyers’ objection against the Constitutional Court judge who considered the documents that were post facto added to HDP’s closure case by the Supreme Court of Appeals Prosecutor's Office as "evidence" has been rejected.
• Barbara Spinelli: Lawyers around the world should file appeals to international bodies about Imrali 

  European Association of Lawyers for Democracy & World Human Rights co-president Barbara Spinelli said that lawyers around the world should be encouraged to file appeals to international bodies about the situation in Imrali.
• Russia says nearly 6000 of its troops killed in Ukraine 

  Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu stated that 5,937 Russian soldiers had been killed since the beginning of the Ukraine war. Experts believe that the Russian casualties may be much higher.
• Delegation from Northern and Eastern Syria meets with German MP Catherine Hanenberger 

  A delegation from Northern and Eastern Syria met with German MP Catherine Hanenberger. At the meeting, the attacks and threats by the invading Turkish state and the obstacles to the Autonomous Administration were discussed.
• European lawyers: CPT must go to Imrali immediately 

  Lawyers, who applied to the Ministry of Justice to allow a visit to Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan, said that the CPT should go to Imralı immediately and emphasized that "there is torture there".
• Constitutional Court rejects HDP’s request for recusal of judge in closure case 

  The HDP had stated that judge İrfan Fidan took part in investigations against at least 47 HDP members who are facing a ban from politics in the closure case, and demanded his recusal.
• Tamil community rallies in front of UN in Geneva  

  At a rally in front of the UN in Geneva, the Tamil community called for the killing of the Tamil population to be recognized as genocide.