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• Coronavirus threat grows in Iran and Iraq 

  While death toll from Coronavirus is on the rise in Iran, first Covid-19 infections have been reported from Iraq and Southern Kurdistan.
• Öcalan's lawyers apply once again to visit Imrali 

  Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyers applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to meet their client.
• Paramilitaries in Colombia force displacement of 120 families 

  Human rights organizations accused Colombian President Ivan Duque´s administration of being irresponsible for not implementing the peace agreements to solve the illicit crops situation. 
• Recount in Hamburg elections confirms rejection of far right 

  Die Linke achieved a small upswing electing Özdemir among other deputies.
• Revenge Unit targets workplace belonging to fascists 

  The group stated that their actions will continue with "determination" until Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan is freed.
• Third death from coronavirus in Italy as WHO warns of pandemic 

  WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the word “pandemic” did yet not fit the facts.
• 122 murders in Brazilian state of Ceara 

  Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, deployed military forces to maintain order.
• Court publishes reasoned decision in Gezi Trial 

  The Court has ruled for the acquittal of defendants as no lawful, concrete and definite evidence were actually obtained.
• Three HDP activists imprisoned in Tarsus 

  Three HDP activists have been arrested in Tarsus on terror charges. Seven HDP politicians who were arrested in Mersin on Saturday remain in custody.
• Dozens injured as car drives into crowd in Germany 

  More than 30 people have been injured after a car drove into a carnival parade in Germany in what has been described as a deliberate crash, local media has reported.
• Kurdish victim of Hanau attack laid to rest 

  Ferhat Ünvar was laid to rest in Hanau. He was one of the nine victims of last week's racist attack. The funeral service for another victim, Mercedes Kierpacz was held at Neuen Friedhof in Offenbach.
• Protests continue in Dominican Republic after elections fraud 

  Citizens of the Dominican Republic promoted a new national 'cacerolazo' to demand transparent elections after the municipal elections of 16 February were suspended due to problems in electronic voting, four hours after the elections began.
• 11 detained after the HDP congress in Ankara 

  HDP held its 4th Ordinary Congress in Ankara on Sunday.
• HDP elects new co-chairs: Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar 

  Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar were elected unanimously as the party's new co-chairs along with the Party Assembly.
• Turkey closes four border crossings, suspends flights from Iran 

  Four people suspected to have been infected with the coronavirus have been taken under treatment at hospitals in Van so far.
• Thousands in Hamburg protest the massacre in Hanau 

  Thousands of people gathered in Hamburg to protest the massacre in Hanau.
• International guests: The gates of Imralı gates should be opened 

  International guests from various countries who are attending the HDP congress in Ankara saluted the Kurdish people’s resistance and stressed that Erdoğan will lose. They called for access to Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan who is held in isolation.
• Messages of Demirtaş, Yüksekdağ and Baluken to the HDP Congress 

  The 4th Ordinary Congress of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is being held in Ankara to elect the co-chairs and central party officials of the party.
• HDP's Buldan: We will win, democracy will win! 

  HDP co-chair Pervin Buldan: "We will win together. Democracy will win. Peace will win. Serkeftin ya me ye."
• HDP's Temelli: Let's establish the alliance for democracy! 

  Speaking at the HDP 4th Ordinary Congress, co-chair Sezai Temelli invited everyone to join the alliance for democracy.
• Earthquake at the Bakur-Rojhilat border: 4 dead 

  A 5.8 magnitude earthquake was felt on the border of Bakur and Rojhilat Kurdistan. According to the first information, 4 children died in Van.
• HDP Congress opens in Ankara 

  HDP 4th Ordinary Congress has begun in Ankara Sports Hall. Chair Tülay Hatimoğulları greeted "all those who resist in the prisons of Imralı, Kandira and Edirne".
• HDP 4th Ordinary Congress kicks off in Ankara 

  Thousands of people from Kurdistan and Turkey gathered in front of the hall where the HDP 4th Ordinary Congress takes place.
• HDP co-chair candidates are Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar 

  HDP Central Consensus Commission proposed to Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar to be candidates for the co-chairmanship of the party. Both Buldan and Sancar are reported to have accepted.
• Hanau massacre protested in Ludwigshafen 

  Demonstrations continue across Germany in protest at racism and right-wing terror after Wednesday’s murder of 9 immigrants in the Hanau city.