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• Sinn Fein warns Good Friday Agreement may not survive 

  Sinn Fein said that the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement may not survive, as Brexit and other unresolved issues continue to shutter the institutions which were set up under the agreement.
• Diplomatic campaign against Venezuela hardening 

  The official sworn in ceremony by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on 10 January has been used as a pretext to spark a new phase of the already heavy international campaign against the legal government.
• Lawyer Özen: Leyla Güven’s health is deteriorating 

  Güven is on the 66th day of her hunger strike against the isolation of Öcalan.
• Hunger strike in Strasbourg reached day 27 

  Most people joined the great march in Paris today, so hunger strikers were visited by less people than usual. Among them today were family members.
• YPG Spokesman Nuri Mahmud responds to accusations by Turkey 

  “Turkey, which has been a jihadist safe-haven and passage route to Syria since the beginning of the conflict, has plans to invade the region end destroy the democracy created by blood of sons and daughters of this people”, said the YPG official.
• Thousands demanded justice for Sakine, Fidan and Leyla in Paris 

  The slogan of the march this year was “For justice against impunity” and it was marked by the ongoing hunger strikes demanding an end to the aggravated isolation imposed on Abdullah Öcalan.
• March for justice in Paris: We know the murderers 

  Kurds and allies gathered in Paris on the anniversary of the murder of 3 revolutionary Kurdish women 6 years ago and marched from Gare du Nord to the Republique Square.
• Prisoner on hunger strike placed in solitary confinement  

  Bahtiyar Kemal Hasan, who has been on an indefinite and non-alternate hunger strike in the Van Type F Closed Prison, has been placed in solitary confinement. 
• 26th Day in Strasbourg: Visits from the UK 

  As the traffic of visitors continues, the hunger strike in Strasbourg has completed its 26th day. London based academic Dr. Osman Ismail and Rojava veteran Sores Serekaniye were in Strasbourg against the isolation.
• Kurds and allies in Paris "for justice, against impunity” 

  Thousands have gathered in Paris on the anniversary of the massacre that targeted three revolutionary Kurdish women.
• Police block people marching to Amed prison where Güven is held 

  Turkish police continue their obstruction of actions for Leyla Güven who is fasting since November 8 against the isoltion of Öcalan.
• Berlin in solidarity with the hunger strikers for Öcalan 

  Solidarity activities with PKK and PJAK prisoners on hunger strike continue in Berlin, Germany.
• Petition to end the isolation of Öcalan 

  In order to break the state of incommunicado imposed on Mr. Ocalan, fifteen Kurdish political activists, politicians and academics launched on 17th December an indefinite hunger strike in Strasbourg.
• Eight Caribbean countries ban polystyrene 

  The ban began on 1 January and affects products highly polluting and that take some 400 to 500 years in degrading, not even disappearing.
• Women against isolation in Hannover 

  A demonstration was held in the German city of Hannover to demand the end of isolation.
• Rally in Paris for Sakine, Fidan and Leyla 

  The European Democratic Kurdish Society Congress (KCDK-E) organised a march today in Paris.
• Swedish MP: The world should speak up against Turkish threats 

  MP Redar said that Turkey should not be allowed to implement its own agenda for Syria.
• Demo in Sydney in solidarity with hunger strikes for Öcalan 

  Solidarity with hunger strikes against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan is growing.
• 26th day in Strasbourg: Busy visits and preparations for actions 

  Preparations continue in Strasbourg for the great march tomorrow to protest the Paris murders, of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez.
• Sinn Fein MEP calls for international action for Leyla Guven 

  MEP Anderson said Sinn Féin has taken part in demonstrations across Ireland and elsewhere in support of Leyla Guven and more will be held in the coming days.
• KESK: Local elections will be a sort of referendum 

  The Public Workers union to support candidates who pledged their commitment to the building of a free, equal, pluri-cultural and pluri-lingual society.
• French institutions call for participation in Paris rally 

  Several institutions in Paris have called for participation in a rally and meeting due to be held on January 12 in Paris.
• Swiss MP urges Europe to take action against the isolation 

  Swiss MP Carlo Sommaruga called on European politicians to take action for Leyla Guven and demanded an end to the isolation against Ocalan.
• Sakine, Fidan and Leyla remembered in Bologna 

  A tribute to the three Kurdish women politicians took place in the Italian city of Bologna.
• Guven hears sounds of protest in front of prison 

  HDP MP imprisoned by the Turkish regime Leyla Guven said she could hear the sounds of the protest held in front of the prison to support her hunger strike of 65 days.