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Two hunger strikers in Strasbourg hospitalized
Two of the fourteen activists on indefinite hunger strike in Strasbourg, France have been hospitalized. -
Sweden hunger strikers met with Amnesty International officials
Hunger strike activists stressed that Ocalan is in a key position for the solution of the Kurdish issue and for peace in Turkey, and requested that the Amnesty administration take initiatives to end the isolation. -
Police prevents HDP from issuing statement on isolation
The police has surrounded the HDP Amed offices and is preventing HDP MPs and co-mayors from issuing a statement to draw attention to the isolation and hunger strikes. -
EP group warns AKP to “recognize the election results”
European Parliament’s S&D group issued a warning and said, “If the AKP doesn’t recognize the election results, it will have consequences for EU-Turkey relations.” -
Clash between ISIS and Hashd al-Shaabi in Khanaqin
4 Hashd al-Shaabi members were wounded in a clash with ISIS in Khanaqin, southern Kurdistan. -
Sinn Féin MEP Ní Riada: Fighting for a radically transformed EU
Sinn Féin MEP Liadh Ní Riada has said "Sinn Féin is fighting for Ireland and a radically transformed European Union." -
Italian Metal Workers Union sent solidarity to hunger strikers
"Without an urgent initiative of the international community towards Turkey many other [hunger strikers] are at serious risk of death or otherwise of suffering permanent damage." -
Families of prisoners in Imrali refused visit once again
The application filed by families of Kurdish People's Leader and the other three prisoners held in İmralı were rejected again. -
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.