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• HDP co-chair: Local elections are the beginning of a new process 

  HDP’s Temelli saluted the HDK congress and pledged to continue strengthening congress policies.
• Thousands marched in the Basque country for political prisoners 

  The main demands of the march were that the prisoners are brought to jails in the Basque country and the release of ill prisoners.
• Ilhan Sis to continue his indefinite hunger strike in Wales 

  Ilhan Sis, who is hunger strike in Galler for 28 days, stated that he will continue his action.
• Police attacked demo against isolation in Batman 

  Police attacked a demonstration in protest at the isolation of Öcalan in the province of Batman, and detained an administrator of the HDP.
• French politicians and activists: End the isolation of Öcalan 

  French politicians and activists who joined yesterday's rally in Paris "for justice against impunity" for Sakine, Fidan and Leyla called for further solidarity with the Kurdish people and their struggle.
• Strasbourg hunger strikers: Our action will go on 

  “We will not be content with the crumbs of freedom. Our resistance will continue until the isolation on Leader Apo is lifted. We call on our people to deepen the resistance.”
• HDK: Isolation must be lifted 

  Speeches at the HDK General Assembly were all marked by the situation in Turkey and North Kurdistan, in particular the hunger strikes.
• Figen Yüksekdağ: Only those who fight can win 

  In a phone call to the General Assembly of HDK, former HDP leader Figen Yüksekdağ said from prison, "Only those who fight can win."
• Turkish police obstruct delegation from Europe in Amed 

  Police obstructed a group of people including a foreign delegation that attempted to go to Diyarbakır E Type Prison in solidarity with Leyla Güven.
• Leyla Guven couldn’t come to lawyers’ visit 

  Leyla Güven is on day 67 of her hunger strike against isolation.
• Race hate attacks on asylum centres 

  Some 6,000 people, roughly 0.1% of the Irish population, are today living in direct-provision centres.
• Sinn Fein warns Good Friday Agreement may not survive 

  Sinn Fein said that the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement may not survive, as Brexit and other unresolved issues continue to shutter the institutions which were set up under the agreement.
• Diplomatic campaign against Venezuela hardening 

  The official sworn in ceremony by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on 10 January has been used as a pretext to spark a new phase of the already heavy international campaign against the legal government.
• Lawyer Özen: Leyla Güven’s health is deteriorating 

  Güven is on the 66th day of her hunger strike against the isolation of Öcalan.
• Hunger strike in Strasbourg reached day 27 

  Most people joined the great march in Paris today, so hunger strikers were visited by less people than usual. Among them today were family members.
• YPG Spokesman Nuri Mahmud responds to accusations by Turkey 

  “Turkey, which has been a jihadist safe-haven and passage route to Syria since the beginning of the conflict, has plans to invade the region end destroy the democracy created by blood of sons and daughters of this people”, said the YPG official.
• Thousands demanded justice for Sakine, Fidan and Leyla in Paris 

  The slogan of the march this year was “For justice against impunity” and it was marked by the ongoing hunger strikes demanding an end to the aggravated isolation imposed on Abdullah Öcalan.
• March for justice in Paris: We know the murderers 

  Kurds and allies gathered in Paris on the anniversary of the murder of 3 revolutionary Kurdish women 6 years ago and marched from Gare du Nord to the Republique Square.
• Prisoner on hunger strike placed in solitary confinement  

  Bahtiyar Kemal Hasan, who has been on an indefinite and non-alternate hunger strike in the Van Type F Closed Prison, has been placed in solitary confinement. 
• 26th Day in Strasbourg: Visits from the UK 

  As the traffic of visitors continues, the hunger strike in Strasbourg has completed its 26th day. London based academic Dr. Osman Ismail and Rojava veteran Sores Serekaniye were in Strasbourg against the isolation.
• Kurds and allies in Paris "for justice, against impunity” 

  Thousands have gathered in Paris on the anniversary of the massacre that targeted three revolutionary Kurdish women.
• Police block people marching to Amed prison where Güven is held 

  Turkish police continue their obstruction of actions for Leyla Güven who is fasting since November 8 against the isoltion of Öcalan.
• Berlin in solidarity with the hunger strikers for Öcalan 

  Solidarity activities with PKK and PJAK prisoners on hunger strike continue in Berlin, Germany.
• Petition to end the isolation of Öcalan 

  In order to break the state of incommunicado imposed on Mr. Ocalan, fifteen Kurdish political activists, politicians and academics launched on 17th December an indefinite hunger strike in Strasbourg.
• Eight Caribbean countries ban polystyrene 

  The ban began on 1 January and affects products highly polluting and that take some 400 to 500 years in degrading, not even disappearing.