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• South African executive: many similarities between Mandela-Öcalan 

  The South African National Assembly Spokesperson spoke about the similarities between South Africa at the time of racist apartheid regime with today’s Turkey's current regime and the need for an international campaign demanding freedom for Abdullah Öcalan
• Guven unable to go to lawyer visits for a week 

  DTK Co-chair Leyla Guven has been on a hunger strike for 63 days to protest the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan, and has been unable to go to lawyer visits for 6 days.
• Civil disobedience action for Öcalan in Zurich 

  Activists held civil disobedience action in Zurich against the isolation imposed upon Abdullah Öcalan.
• Prisoners in Urfa: We will fast until our demand is met 

  The prisoners stated that they would continue their actions with determination until the isolation on Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan is lifted.
• Day 23 in Strasbourg hunger strike 

  The hunger strike launched in Strasbourg, France to protest the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan continues on day 23.
• HDP Co-chair Buldan: Isolation will end! 

  "Leyla Güven has now reached a critical stage. Leyla is struggling for peace for the future of this country in the prison where she is held unlawfully, with the only means she has," said HDP Co-chair Pervin Buldan.
• Up to 26 years in prison sought for HDP MP Demirel 

  Former HDP MP Caglar Demirel will be on trial for up to 26 years in prison.
• Bolton’s visit to Ankara: Yellow vests, PKK and more 

  The National Security Advisor arrived in Turkey on Monday and met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin. Bolton reportedly did not have a meeting with Erdogan.
• Afrin’s olives on Switzerland’s agenda 

  Swiss MP Bernhard Guhl took the Turkish state looting Afrin’s olives to be sold to Spain to the Swiss parliament’s agenda. Guhl stressed that the Turkish state continues to violate international law in front of the whole world to see.
• Swiss police fines Turkish man shouting “Allahu Akbar” 

  The Swiss police has fined a young Turkish man who shouted “Allahu Akbar” 150 Francs for disrupting peace.
• 12 people including HDP members detained in Ankara 

  The Turkish regime’s political genocide operations against the Kurdish people and opposition circles continue.
• Brasil set for an era of internal tensions 

  The first challenges for the President and his first measures announced an era of heavy social tensions in a country left much polarized after the elections.
• Israel leaves UNESCO 

  Announced last October, on 5 January Israel officially left UNESCO.
• Sakine, Fidan and Leyla remembered in Italy 

  The cities of Roma, Bologna and Cosenza, in Italy, are organising events to remember the three Kurdish women political activists massacred in Paris.
• Leyla Güven’s health worsening 

  The HDP Hakkari MP is on hunger strike for 61 days.
• Prisoners on hunger strike arbitrarily deported 

  Retaliation measures are being taken by prison authorities against prisoners on hunger strike.
• Temizkan: My mother is determined to continue until the end 

  Imprisoned DTK Co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Guven’s daughter Sabiha Temizkan said her mother expressed determination to continue her hunger strike, on day 61 today, until the end.
• LDH: Unlawfulness about the Paris killings encourages murderers 

  LDH issued a statement on the 6th anniversary of the January 9 Paris killings and said the unlawfulness encourages murderers and instigators.
• March in Wales for solidarity with hunger strikers 

  A march was held in Welsh capital Cardiff to protest the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan and to show solidarity for the hunger strikers.
• Kurdish parties form election alliance under the umbrella of HDP 

  Kurdish political parties that have formed an election alliance under the umbrella of the HDP pointed to the importance of national unity.
• Demonstration against the isolation of Öcalan in Marseille 

  Kurds and their friends continue their protests across Europe and all around the world to protest against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan.
• Başaran: Let’s be the voice of the hunger strikers 

  HDP’s Başaran underlined that the situation in the prisons is worsening and appeal to the society to speak out.
• March in Paris to demand justice for Sakine, Fidan and Leyla 

  The European Democratic Kurdish Society Congress (KCDK-E) made a statement to mark the anniversary, on 9 January 2013, of the massacre in Paris of three Kurdish women revolutionaries.
• Zapatista movement celebrates its 25th birthday 

  This January, the Zapatista movement has just officially celebrated its 25th birthday. They are still building their reality and innovating in their practices in the mountains of Chiapas.
• Strasbourg hunger strike reached day 21 

  The 15 hunger strikers in Strasbourg are receiving visitors from all over Europe.