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• Musician Azad Bedran visited Leyla Güven 

  Musician Azad Bedran has visited HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven who has reached day 142 of her hunger strike. 
• Nine HDP and DBP executives remanded in custody in Iğdır 

  15 HDP and DBP executives who were taken into custody in Iğdır were taken to court after 12 days in custody. Nine of them were remanded in custody.
• Temelli meets with Sur residents 

  HDP Co-chair Sezai Temelli met with Sur residents in the district and issued a call for the final rally to be held tomorrow.
• Political prisoner on hunger strike speaks about prisons 

  Political prisoner Abdullah Oral, who has been on an indefinite non-alternating hunger strike for 93 days in Izmir Kiriklar Prison No.1, spoke about the oppression by the prison administration on a phone call with his family.
• Panel discussion on hunger strikes in Wales 

  A panel discussion was held as part of the indefinite non-alternating hunger strike Imam Sis has been on for 102 days in Newport, Wales.
• MEP Bjork calls for solidarity with the Kurds 

  Member of the European Parliament Malin Bjork said the HDP will achieve success in the elections and weaken Erdogan. Bjork added that Europe should intervene with the hunger strikes.
• Silence of CPT and Europe protested in front of the EP 

  The hunger strike in front of the EP against the isolation continues. Irish MEP Martina Anderson and Italian feminist Eleonora Forenza condemned the silence of European institutions.
• Victory of the SDF, YPG, YPJ against ISIS celebrated in Hannover 

  Hundreds of people took part in the celebration.
• Families of prisoners protest in front of Ministry of Justice 

  Families stand with their children who are on hunger strike in prisons against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan.
• PYD visited hunger striker Koçak in Geneva 

  Koçak has joined the hunger strike to end isolation on Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan led by HDP Hakkâri MP Leyla Güven.
• HDP MP on hunger strike: Prisons are always leading the struggle 

  Murat Sarısaç, one of the HDP deputies on a hunger strike demanding the end of isolation against Öcalan said that prisons always led the revolutionary processes.
• Sri Lanka delegation visited hunger strikers in Strasbourg 

  International solidarity with Kurdish hunger strikers against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan continues growing.
• Die Linke in Baden-Württemberg supports HDP and hunger strikes 

  Die Linke in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany has issued a statement supporting the hunger strike launched to demand the end of isolation against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• French MEP and candidates visit Strasbourg activists 

  Candidate Zerrin Bataray visited the Strasbourg hunger strikers together with MEP Guillaume Balas and stressed that it is important that the consideration of PKK as a “terrorist organization” is ended as well as the isolation.
• Munich police investigate Mazlum Dogan’s photograph 

  The Munich Police, in their endless intolerance against Kurdish symbols, launched another investigation citing the banner with Mazlum Dogan’s photograph on it as an excuse this time.
• Norway: International obligations must be complied with on Imrali 

  The Norwegian Foreign Minister stated that Turkey must comply with international commitments on Imrali. The minister clarified: "The PKK and Turkey should solve the Kurdish question through political negotiation."
• Solidarity visits to Sis on day 101 of hunger strike in Wales 

  Solidarity with the Kurdish hunger strike resistance against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan continues growing.
• Hunger strike in front of EP on day 3 

  The hunger strike held in front of the European Parliament against the isolation is on day 3.
• Pinar Aydinlar detained for singing Kurdish anthem 

  Pinar Aydinlar was detained by the police for singing the Herne Pes anthem in a HDP rally in Bitlis.
• France’s statement for “international court” in Rojava 

  First responses are coming in for the Northern and Eastern Syrian Federation’s call to set up an international court in the region for the trials of ISIS members.
• Court issues forced appearance warrant for Leyla Guven 

  Diyarbakir Heavy Penal Court No.5 issued a forced appearance warrant for Leyla Guven, who has been on a hunger strike for 140 days.
• MEP Gericke visits Kurdish hunger strikers in Strasbourg 

  MEP Arne Gericke visited the hunger strike activists who continue their protest in Strasbourg demanding an end to the isolation imposed upon Kurdish Peoples’ Leader Abdullah Ocalan. Bundnis C member Gericke said the isolation in Imrali must end.
• Demo against isolation in front of BBC in London 

  Protest against the silence of the BBC on the hunger strike actions demanding the end of isolation of Öcalan.
• Farewell to Şakar martyred in sacrifice action against isolation 

  Uğur Şakar, who burned himself in February in protest against the isolation of Öcalan and the anti-Kurdish repression in Germany, has been laid to rest in Neuss.
• German activist: I will continue to demand freedom for Ocalan 

  A Munich court issued 80-year-old peace activist Claus Schreer a 2.800 Euro fine for waving a YPJ flag and holding a sign that says “Freedom for Ocalan”. Schreer said, “I will continue to demand freedom for Ocalan and wave the YPJ flag.”