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• Internationalist YPG fighters Asperti and Orsetti remembered 

  Italian YPG fighters Giovanni Francesco Asperti and Lorenzo Orsetti, who lost their life in Rojava, were commemorated in the Italian city of Alessandria.
• Academics and artists wrote to Merkel on hunger strikers 

  A number of academics and artists, including Esther Bejarano, the survivor of the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp, published an open letter addressed to German chancellor Merkel stating the need of ending isolation.
• HDP Batman MP Uca visited hunger strikers in the Hague 

  The two Kurdish hunger strikers in the Hague were visited by HDP Batman MP Feleknas Uca on Friday.
• Solidarity action in Dortmund continues 

  The police have made problems to activists as they continue their action in the solidarity tent they put up in Dortmund.
• Police attacked demonstration against YSK fascism in Van 

  People are protesting the denial of mandate for the HDP co-mayors they have elected on March 31 in the Kurdish region.
• HDP delegation meets with EP Secretary General and PACE president 

  Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) members Hisyar Ozsoy and Feleknas Uca as well as HDP Representative Fayik Yagizay attended the meeting with Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland in the name of the HDP.
• Isolation discussed in Geneva Canton Parliament 

  MPs from 3 political parties in the Geneva Canton in Switzerland took the hunger strikes against the isolation to the Geneva Canton Parliament.
• Hunger strikers visit Swedish Parliament 

  Kurds on a hunger strike in Stockholm demanding an end to the isolation imposed upon Ocalan visited the political parties in the parliament and demanded that they take a stand against the isolation.
• Europe’s silence to be protested in Paris with silent protest 

  Democratic Kurdish Council France (CDK-F) called for a silent demonstration on April 13 to protest the “deadly silence” in Europe against hunger strikes.
• Group of German activists to go on hunger strike 

  A group of German activists are going on a hunger strike in Berlin in solidarity with the ongoing hunger strikes demanding an end to the isolation.
• Strasbourg hunger strike: Day 117 

  A group of artists warned to act now before is too late during their visit to hunger strikers in Strasbourg.
• Switzerland against isolation 

  Actions were organised in three different cities of Switzerland to support the hunger strike against isolation.
• Leyla Güven: 156 days on hunger strike 

  DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP, Leyla Güven, has reached day 156 of her hunger strike demanding the end of isolation against Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Brexit deadline moved to 31 October 

  Britain will not suddenly leave the EU this evening.
• Turkey launched mortar shells against Til Rifat 

  Local sources reported mortars launched from Turkey to the centre of Til Rifat.
• Fascist attack against demo for Öcalan in Greece 

  Demonstrators for Öcalan were targeted in Lavrio.
• Press conferfence in CoE: Imrali is the Guantanamo of Europe 

  HDP’s Feleknas Uca and Fayik Yagizay, accompanied by lawyer Rezan Sarica, held a press conference in the CoE on the hunger strikes, calling the Imrali Prison “the Guantanamo Bay of Europe” and urging European institutions to take action.
• 7 activists go on hunger strike in Van against isolation 

  7 more activists are going on a hunger strike in Van to show solidarity with the hunger strikes against the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan.
• Regime falls in Sudan, all political prisoners to be released 

  After Sudanese dictator Omar Al Bashir resigned under pressure from the streets, the intelligence and security services announced that all political prisoners in the country will be released.
• Comrade of Bobby Sands: The silence is shameful 

  “Sinn Féin send our solidarity and support to the Kurdish people. We want you to know, that we will continue to stand firmly with you, as you too stand with us.”
• Silence of CoE condemned in mass sit-in 

  The mass sit-in by Kurds in Europe protesting the silence of the Council of Europe (CoE) continue on the third week.
• Summaries against 19 HDP MPs for made up charges 

  Summaries have been prepared against 19 HDP MPs for “not protesting” speeches HDP Co-chair Pervin Buldan and Group Deputy Chairperson Fatma Kurtulan gave.
• HDP executive detained in Amed 

  The Turkish regime’s political genocide against the Kurdish people and their elected representatives continues.
• HDP: YSK decision is a political conspiracy 

  The HDP reacted to the decision by Turkey's Supreme Electoral Board to deny mayors elected to take up office if they had been previously stripped of office.
• HDP delegation met with CPT 

  The CPT officials were told that deaths occurred in prisons also due to their failure to carry out their duties and that they were responsible for the new deaths that may occur.