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• Delegation from South Kurdistan visits Leyla Guven in Amed 

  A delegation from South Kurdistan including politicians and academics visited Leyla Guven on her 125th day of the hunger strike.
• Plaid Cymru Chair visits Imam Sis 

  Plaid Cymru Chairperson Adam Price visited Imam Sis and the hunger strike. Price said, “The isolation of Kurdish Leader Ocalan is unacceptable.”
• Former HDP Edremit District Co-chair arrested 

  Former HDP District Co-chair Hurriyet Kizil was arrested after the prison sentence she received for protesting the Suruc massacre was finalized.
• Turkey’s antidemocratic system lands in Sweden Parliament 

  “A number of HDP members and deputies including former co-chairs Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yüksekdağ are in prison. The European Court of Human Rights ruled the release of Selahattin Demirtas, yet he is still in prison.”
• Isolation of Ocalan protested in Welsh Assembly and BBC 

  Kurdish activist Imam Sis continues his indefinite non-alternating hunger strike on day 84 as protests were held in front of the Welsh Assembly and the BBC building with the same demands.
• DKP’s Erol Dundar on indefinite hunger strike 

  Erol Dundar, who is under arrest in the DKP/Birlik case, joined the indefinite nonalternating hunger strikes on March 1. 
• 142 prisoners on non-alternating hunger strikes in Mardin 

  The number of prisoners on indefinite non-alternating hunger strikes in the Mardin Type E Closed Prison demanding an end to the isolation imposed upon Ocalan has risen to 142.
• Switzerland group takes over the hunger strike in Strasbourg 

  The alternating hunger strike in Strasbourg continues with new groups.
• Activists from four parts of Kurdistan on hunger strike 

  Solidarity with Kurdish hunger strike campaign is growing.
• HDP Co-chair Temelli visited Leyla Güven 

  "Leyla Güven began a peaceful action, and she did so to put emphasis on peace and democracy in Turkey."
• "The Colombia Peace Agreement is being seriously damaged" 

  The letter is in response to the objections announced by President Iván Duque to the Statutory Law of the JEP.
• Hunger striker Yağız sends flowers to Leyla Güven  

  Leyla Güven is on hunger strike for 124 days and Nasır Yağız for 111 days.
• HDP’s Temelli: We are the party for a new future 

  “With the end of isolation, peace will come to this country and the path to peace and democracy would be opened."
• Yüksekdağ: Defend your rights and future on 31 March 

  Yüksekdağ stressed that isolation policies should be stopped immediately and that the political power has lost the ability to govern.
• Hunger strike in Kassel on day 42 

  Two Kurdish activists are on hunger strike in Kassel, Germany for 42 days.
• How is the health of Strasbourg hunger strikers? 

  Day 85 of the indefinite hunger strike by Kurdish activists in Strasbourg, France.
• NGOs in Van launched an appeal on hunger strike  

  Voicing concern about the current stage of the hunger strike, Güneş warned that deaths and permanent damages may occur in prisons. “We want to remind the people that there is nothing more important and valuable than human life.”
• Switzerland: ISIS should be tried where they committed crimes 

  ​​​​​​​The Swiss Federal Council argued that Swiss national ISIS members should be prosecuted in the countries where they have carried out terrorist activities.
• Diplomatic activity grows as Strasbourg fast reached day 85 

  The hunger strikes are a non-violent resistance although often some European countries have borrowed from Turkey the same ‘terror-violence’ discourse when it comes to talk about Kurds.
• Berlin attempts to criminalize hunger strikes 

  The Interior Ministry responded to Die Linke’s written inquiry on the hunger strikes in Strasbourg and attempted to criminalize the protests, implying that solidarity demonstrations will be inspected for connections to banned organizations.
• Iranian and Rojhilat delegation visited hunger strikers 

  Representatives from Eastern Kurdistan and Iranian institutions visited the hunger strikers coming from Germany and other cities of France.
• 148 prisoners including 2 journalists on hunger strike in Van 

  148 prisoners have been on a hunger strike for 11 days in the Van High Security Closed Prison.
• Left Party’s Dalarna Conference declares support for Leyla Guven 

  “Leyla Guven is a woman attempting to break fascism with her protest. As Left Party members, we stand with Leyla."
• Local artists visit Kurdish hunger striker Iba in Toronto  

  Local artists and women visited Yusuf Iba, who has been on a hunger strike in Toronto for 58 days.
• Turkey in recession 

  Turkey has been declared as in a recession officially for the first time in a decade.