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• Prominent Swedish lawyer calls for an end to Ocalan’s isolation 

  Leif Eriksson, a prominent Swedish lawyer stated that the isolation imposed on the Kurdish people’s leader, Abdullah Ocalan, should end immediately.
• Alevis on day 5 of hunger strike in Germany 

  Hunger strikes against the isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan are ongoing.
• Alevi Cultural Center members visited hunger striker in Wales 

  Ilhan Şiş is on day 43 of indefinite hunger strike in Westport demanding the end of isolation.
• Demo against isolation in Paris 

  Activists in Paris promoted a protest in support of hunger strikers.
• Hunger strike in Strasbourg on day 43 

  Solidarity with Kurdish hunger strikes against the isolation of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan is growing.
• Attack against the Philippine peace process 

  The peace process ended with peace agreements signed in 2014, yet the country is still not at peace.
• Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz 

  Historians and academics calculate that some one million people were killed and died in Auschwitz and Birkenan. Most of them were Jewish but there were also German anti-fascists, Polish, Russians, gipsies, gays.
• Leyla Güven: Prisons will smash the isolation 

  "If this tyrant, fascist state wants us to pay a price, as a Kurdish woman, I am willing and glad to pay the price."
• PIK: Peace passes through negotiation with Öcalan, not isolation 

  The PIK president stressed that if there is no peace, Kurds will continue to fight for their rights and called on European and world countries to act now.
• A people’s leader cannot be in isolation, the resistance goes on! 

  "The leader of a people cannot be isolated, cannot be subjugated in prison. This is an act of humiliation and shame. This resistance will continue until isolation is ended", said HDP MP Leyla Güven who has been on hunger strike for 81 days.
• Hunger strike in Adygea continues with the second group 

  The hunger strike in Adygea, demanding the removal of the isolation of the Kurdish people’s leader, Abdullah Ocalan, continues with the second group taking turn.
• Swedish MEP Björk visited Kurds in Stockholm 

  Björk said that the only party in Sweden that requested the PKK to be removed from the list is the Left Party.
• Irish parliament passed Bill to ban Israeli settlement products 

  In December, the upper house gave its final approval to the bill, making the Seanad the first house of parliament in the world to pass legislation banning the import of goods from Israeli settlements in occupied territory.
• Die Linke congress approved motion demanding the end of isolation 

  Delegates stood with photographs of DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven, who has been on hunger strike for 81 days.
• Demonstrations against the isolation of Öcalan in Sweden 

  Actions demanding an end to the isolation regime on Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan continue all around the world.
• Four years ago the liberation of Kobanê 

  Four years have passed since the historic liberation of Kobanê by the YPG and YPJ.
• Hunger strikers in the Hague visited by Jineology Network 

  The Jineology Solidarity Network Italy reaffirmed their support to the hunger strikers.
• Irish Taoiseach in u-turn on Brexit militarisation 

  Varadkar’ statements came as a surprised to the Irish political establishment, which had believed previous assurances that there would be no hard border as a result of Brexit, and that the Good Friday Agreement would be honoured in all circumstances.
• Solidarity visits to the hunger strikers in Strasbourg continue 

  The indefinite and non-alternating hunger strike in Strasbourg is ongoing on the 42th day while visits to the hunger strikers continue.
• Solidarity with Kurdish hunger strikes in nine countries 

  There are ongoing actions in Europe to protest the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan and draw attention to the hunger strikes that seek to break isolation.
• Kurdish activist Şiyar Xelîl goes on hunger strike in Germany 

  Kurdish activist Şiyar Xelîl launched an indefinite and non-alternating hunger strike in the German city of Nuremberg.
• Swiss youth visited hunger strikers in Strasbourg 

  International solidarity with Kurdish hunger strikers demanding an end to the isolation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, is growing.
• Kurdish youth in Europe to stage Long March for Öcalan 

  Calling attention to the critical conditions of Kurdish hunger strikers demanding freedom for Öcalan, the preparation committee called for strong participation in the march.
• Uppsala Left Party members support Kurdish hunger strikers 

  International solidarity with Kurdish hunger strikers is growing.
• Ministry: Iraq against any attack that violates its sovereignty 

  Iraqi Ministry will submit a letter to the Turkish Ambassador to Baghdad.