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• Protest against isolation in Vienna and La Rochelle 

  Demonstrations against the isolation regime imposed on Abdullah Öcalan continue all around Europe.
• Prosecution decision on Bloody Sunday to be disclosed on Thursday 

  Bloody Sunday is among the most atrocious British army massacre in the North of Ireland.
• German teachers: Stand up against the isolation 

  Birgit Zwiekirsch said the delegation had come to Strasbourg to offer their support and solidarity to the hunger strikers.
• Horror and anger at North of Ireland Secretary remarks 

  British Secretary for the North of Ireland Karen Bradley said that killings by members of the Crown Forces in the North of Ireland are "not crimes”.
• Pontiacs donate blood for Kobane 

  “We don’t want our blood back, we want to give life with it” say Pontiac Greek women on the centennial of the Pontiac Massacre as they donate blood in solidarity with the Kobane Medical Center.
• Suicide bombing in Mosul: 2 dead, 10 wounded 

  2 people (one of them a police officer) were killed and 10 others were wounded in the suicide attack with an explosive laden vehicle in Mosul.
• Strasbourg activists celebrate March 8 

  The spirit of resistance is women’s spirit. The biggest resistance is women’s resistance. The evil in the world in the last 5 thousand years started by men’s hands, and women continue to resist it for 5 thousand years.”
• Brussels Court of Appeals: PKK activity is not terrorism 

  Brussels Court of Appeals ruled once again that the PKK’s activity is not terrorism, and the 37 Kurdish politicians cannot be put on trial on that basis.
• MPs battered, 7 detained during police raid on HDP Amed building 

  Police raided the HDP building in Amed where 10 people including MPs are on hunger strike against the isolation of Öcalan. Deputies were battered and 7 activists were taken into custody.
• Isolation of Öcalan protested in Cape Town 

  The isolation of Öcalan was protested in South Africa.
• Police raided HDP central office in Amed 

  The Turkish state continues its repressive measures against hunger strike activists who call for an end to the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan.
• Hunger strike in Strasbourg: Day 82 

  People are coming from all parts of Europe to visit the hunger strikers and express their solidarity.
• Families’ appeal to visit Imralı rejected again 

  Families of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan and 3 other prisoners in Imrali appealed to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office for visits, and were rejected again.
• Newroz reception in UK Parliament 

  Scottish National Party MP Chris Stephens spoke in the Newroz reception in the UK Parliament and said, “Ocalan should be free.”
• Hunger strikes spread: Two more HDP MPs join 

  HDP MPs Tayyip Temel and Murat Sarisac joined the hunger strikes. Temel said, “Silence kills, resistance can stop the deaths.”
• German propaganda chief for ISIS killed in YPG operation 

  Christian Emde, who led the propaganda efforts for ISIS for years, threatening Western countries with terror attacks, was killed in a YPG operation in eastern Syria.
• Workers Party of Turkey  delegation visited Leyla Güven 

  "This resistance, which began with Leyla Güven, involved all of as the hunger strike of thousands of activists, in prison, in Europe, in other Kurdish provinces, puts a great deal of responsibility on those outside."
• Germany’s brazen response to Strasbourg hunger strike activists 

  Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Michaelis gave a brazen response to the hunger strikers in Strasbourg and said they won’t be responding to the letters “because the KCDK-E is the political arm of the PKK”.
• HDP Party Assembly member imprisoned 

  The Turkish regime’s political genocide operations against the Kurdish people and their elected representatives continue.
• HDP’s Başaran: End of the isolation is the demand of all Kurds 

  Talking about the hunger strikes, HDP deputy Ayse Acar Basaran said: “End of the isolation is demand of the entire Kurdish people. The government are threatening the country's future”.
• Vigil for hunger strikers in front of German Prime Ministry 

  The families submitted a folder explaining the hunger strikes and their demands to the prime ministry as part of the protest supported by Kurdish institutions in Berlin.
• Kurdish Popular Assembly Co-chair Basar honored in London 

  Kurdish Popular Assembly Britain Co-chair Besime Basar was presented with an achievement award.
• Ambush against Hashd al-Shaabi between Mosul and Maxmur: 6 dead 

  6 fighters were killed in an ambush against the Shia Hashd al-Shaabi forces in southern Mosul in northern Iraq.
• German State confiscates “Make Rojava Green Again” books 

  “We condemn this decision and demand the return of the books as well as the lifting of the ban of the Mezopotamya publishing house.”
• Isolation protested in Hannover, Rennes and Vienna 

  “The demand of Leyla Güven and all the activists is the democratic demand of all the oppressed peoples” said women activists.