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• Sweden and Finland don’t want ISIS members back 

  Officials from governments in Sweden and Finland announced that they won’t be repatriating their citizens who joined ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
• Civil disobedience by the youth in Amnesty International office 

  20 young Kurdish women and men gathered in the Dortmund offices of Amnesty International for a civil disobedience action.
• HDP’s Dede: Van will be one of the municipalities we reclaim 

  "We have no doubt that we will get 14 municipalities, including the Van Metropolitan Municipality on 31 March elections.”
• Hunger strike in Strasbourg: Day 79 

  Despite the fact that they are now facing permanent health problems, activists are determined to continue their action.
• Germany does all it can to avoid taking back ISIS members 

  Germany is rapidly changing the country’s laws to avoid repatriating German citizen ISIS members captured by the YPG. Government partners have agreed to pass a law that would void the German citizenship of ISIS members who are dual citizens.
• Leyla Guven rejects “state doctor” knocking on her door 

  DTK Co-chair and HDP MP Leyla Guven, who continues her hunger strike in her home in Amed, rejected to receive a “state doctor” who said he was there to treat her.
• HDP’s Irmez sentenced to 18 months in prison 

  Former HDP Sirnak MP Aycan Irmez has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
• Switzerland group takes over the vigil for Öcalan in Strasbourg 

  The Freedom for Ocalan Vigil in Strasbourg is the longest running Kurdish demonstration to date.
• Basel and Vienna against isolation 

  A protest against the isolation imposed on Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, and in solidarity with the hunger strikes took place in Basel and Vienna.
• Demo against the isolation of Öcalan in Athens 

  Worldwide protests against the isolation regime against Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned in the island prison of Imralı in Turkey.
• Temelli: We are here and we are going to the polls! 

  HDP co-chair Sezai Temelli was in Dogubeyazit as part of the local elections campaign.
• Hunger strikers’ families visit German Consulate in Istanbul 

  Families of politicians on an indefinite non-alternating hunger strike against the Imrali isolation visited the German Consulate to urge Europe to action.
• Response to Erdogan: You are the one who will leave the country 

  Representatives of various peoples and faiths under the umbrella of the HDP responded to Erdogan’s racist comments and said, “You are the one who will leave this country.”
• Kurdish hunger striker writes to the Prime Minister of Ireland 

  "As an Irish citizen, I call upon you to support us in our action to end Ocalan’s isolation, and to lead the Republic of Ireland towards playing a similar role in the Kurdish case to that it  played for the East Timorese.”
• Leyla Guven on day 117 of hunger strike 

  DTK Co-chair Leyla Guven’s indefinite hunger strike demanding an end to the isolation of Abdullah Ocalan continues on day 117, while Nasir Yagiz is on day 104 of his hunger strike.
• Hunger striker in Toronto hospitalized and refused treatment 

  Yusuf Iba, who has been on hunger strike in Toronto for 51 days, has been hospitalized again.
• Kurdish journalists visited hunger strikers in the Hague 

  Hüseyin Yıldız and Hasbi Çakıcı have been on hunger strike in the Netherlands for 46 days.
• Five HDP hunger strikers detained in Amed 

  Five people have been taken into custody following a raid in the HDP building in Amed where 6 members of the party, included Dersim Dağ MP are on hunger strike.
• Hunger strike resistance in Strasbourg on day 77 

  On Sunday there were many visits from Germany, Switzerland and many cities of France to Strasbourg where 14 Kurdish activists have been on hunger strike for 77 days.
• Lavrov: Turkey has not fully implemented the Idlib agreement 

  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has stated that Turkey has not fully fulfilled the Idlib agreement signed between Putin and Erdoğan on 17 September 2018.
• Attack kills 21 Syrian soldiers near Idlib 

  21 members of Syrian government forces were killed in an attack by al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadist militia Anzar al-Tauhid near the province of Idlib.
• AABK to discuss hunger strikes with European Parliament officials 

  The AABK delegation visited the 14 Kurdish activists on hunger strike in Strasbourg to demand the end of isolation against Abdullah Öcalan.
• Dersim Dağ MP and five HDP members go on hunger strike in Amed 

  Arslan pointed out that the Kurdish politicians and representatives are not demanding any privilege for Öcalan but “just the implementation of Turkey’s own law.”
• HDP election bureau in Esenler, Istanbul attacked 

  Yet another attack on the HDP before the local elections scheduled for March 31 in Turkey.
• Jailed ESP leader goes on solidarity hunger strike 

  Solidarity with Kurdish hunger strike resistance is growing.