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• DEM Party takes uninterrupted action against usurpation of Hakkari Municipality 

  DEM Party Group Deputy Chairperson Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit announced that they will start an uninterrupted vigil action in front of all municipalities against the usurpation of Hakkari Municipality and called for solidarity.
• KNK pays tribute to lawyer Saraceni 

  Luigi Saraceni, magistrate, founder of Magistratura Democratica, member of parliament and a friend of the Kurdish people and lawyer of Abdullah Öcalan, passed away.
• German personalities send a letter to the CPT  

  Dozens of German personalities sent a letter to the CPT asking it to promote a delegation to Imrali.
• Turkish police storm town hall of Hakkari and take DEM party co-mayor into custody 

  Turkish police stormed the town hall of Hakkari and took the co-mayor Mehmet Sıddık Akış into custody.
• Prisoner of 30 years released: We are not free until all political prisoners are released 

  Released after 30 years, Mehmet Emin Ersoy stated that he will not be free until all political prisoners are released and called for public awareness.
• Resistance in İmralı made success inevitable 

  Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, who is held hostage under isolation in İmralı prison, made success inevitable with his will and resistance.
• Emine Şenyaşar's Justice Vigil continues 

  Members of the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects and the Chamber of Electrical Engineers visited Emine Şenyaşar on Justice Vigil in Ankara.
• KCDK-E and PYD Europe call for protests against Turkey’s massacres in Kurdistan 

  “The occupying army of the genocidal Turkish state is committing massacres in Kurdistan. We call for democratic reaction and active solidarity,” said the KCDK-E and PYD Europe in the face of the increasingly ongoing attacks on Kurdish lands.
• Tomorrow citizens in Akpazar and Hilvan will go to the polls again 

  The election campaign in the municipalities of Akpazar in Dersim province and Hilvan in Urfa province is coming to an end. The DEM party is determined to win.
• Lawyer Merve Nur Doğan sentenced to 9 years in prison on ‘terror’ charges 

  Lawyer Merve Nur Doğan of Diyarbakır Bar Association was forcibly brought to the SEGBİS room by court order to the hearing she refused to attend to protest the absolute isolation of Öcalan. She was sentenced to 9 years in prison.
• Swedish politician: İmralı isolation affects all prisoners in the country 

  Swedish Left Party candidate for the European Parliament, Lotta Lagnander, visited the Gävleborg People's Assembly. ‘İmralı isolation affects all prisoners in the country,’ said Lagnander.
• Police take 4 people into custody in Suruç 

  At least 4 people were detained in house raids carried out by Turkish state forces in Urfa’s Suruç district.
• ÖHD: 104 people taken into custody under torture in Istanbul 

  ÖHD said that 104 people were detained under torture in Arnavutköy Imrahor District and announced that some of them were seriously injured.
• Candidate registration for Iran's early presidential election begins  

  Candidates for the early presidential election to be held in Iran on 28 June will be able to register with the Interior Ministry for five days starting Thursday.
• Gaza war: Death toll rises to 36,224 

  The Hamas Health Ministry announced that the death toll in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli attacks reached 36,224.
• Dozens of MPs and personalities from Switzerland call on the CPT to visit Abdullah Öcalan in İmralı 

  Swiss parliamentarians and personalities sent a letter to the CPT, calling for action for Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, who has not been heard from for about 38 months.
• Motion about Kobanê Trial moved Swiss Federal Assembly  

  Socialist Party MP Claudia Friedl submitted a motion to the Swiss Federal Assembly regarding the Kobanê Trial and asked the government to take an initiative to release the prisoners.
• 567 years of imprisonment requested for 42 people 

  A total of 567 years of imprisonment was requested in two separate indictments prepared against 42 people who were arrested because they wanted to march to Taksim on 1 May.
• Italian Greens and Left Alliance call on the CPT to send a delegation to İmralı urgently 

  Italian parliamentarians and senators from the Alliance of the Greens and the Left sent a letter to Dr Alan Mitchell, President of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, demanding that the CPT send a delegation to İmralı immediately.
• Greenreport: Turkish army bombs Kurdish guerrillas with prohibited weapons 

  Greenreport exposes Turkey's dirty war against Kurdish guerrillas: "Unpunished, ignored, sure that we will turn our eyes the other way and not smell the chemical stench of a colonialist war of extermination and internationally banned weapons."
• Auernheimer: Isolation is torture by international standards 

  Prof. Georg Auernheimer said that the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan was a form of torture according to international standards. He added that the Turkish state should return to the negotiation table, and that "as a first step, Öcalan should be released."
• New group of activists take over Freedom for Öcalan Vigil in Strasbourg 

  A new group of activists took over the 12-year-long Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan Vigil, in its 622nd week.
• Kurdish journalist Serdar Karakoç to remain in custody in the Netherlands 

  Kurdish journalist Serdar Karakoç, who has been living in the Netherlands for 23 years, is being held in custody. A Dutch court has ordered the continuation of his detention.
• Opening of mass grave containing ISIS massacre victims in Kora Elo Enter starts 

  A mass grave containing victims of the massacres carried out by ISIS in Iraq started to be opened.
• Sadr calls for closure of the US embassy in Baghdad after Israeli attack in Rafah 

  Muqtada Sadr condemned the ‘genocide’ in Gaza and the ‘bombing of the camps in Rafah’ and the ‘shameful’ American support for Israel in the devastating war on the Palestinian territories since 7 October.