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• Welsh revolutionaries support Kurdish hunger striker Sis 

  Welsh revolutionaries and democrats held a 1-day hunger strike to show solidarity with Imam Sis.
• Protest against the German police in Krefeld 

  In Krefeld there has been a demonstration forUğur Şakar, who set himself on fire in protest against the isolation of Öcalan. The police claimed that Sakar had tried to burn himself due to mental health problems.
• MLKP prisoners to go on hunger strike against isolation 

  Prisoners in the MLKP case announced that they are going on a hunger strike on March 1 demanding an end to the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan.
• Town Hall in Paris awards Gultan Kisanak medal 

  Choisy-le-Roi Town Hall in Paris, France awarded imprisoned Amed Metropolitan Mayor Gultan Kisanak a medal.
• Actions in 4 cities to support hunger strikers 

  Actions and protests are being promoted all over Europe in support to the hunger strikers demanding the end of isolation against Abdullah Öcalan.
• Members of the British Kurdish People's Council in Strasbourg 

  The support for the 14 activists on indefinite hunger striker in Strasbourg is growing by the day.
• German politicians visited hunger strikers in Kassel 

  Two Kurdish activists are on hunger strike in Kassel, Germany for 28 days.
• New Cuban Constitution approved 

  Of those who voted, 6 million 816 thousand 169 voters voted YES (86.85%) and 706 thousand 400 voted NO (9.0%). 
• Over 1,000 human rights defenders, journalists killed in 3 years 

  President of the Human Rights Council reminded that the Council would hear statements by some 100 high-level dignitaries, testifying to the importance of the Council’s mandate and of human rights within the United Nations system.
• Action in front of Bakırköy Prison banned 

  Turkish police continue their repression against the people in solidarity with the hunger strike campaign.
• Resistance grows: Hunger strike in front of the Council of Europe 

  To step up the resistance and in solidarity with the indefinite hunger strike in Strasbourg, activists have also begun an indefinite and alternating solidarity hunger strike in front of the Council of Europe and the CPT.
• Kurdish youth in civil disobedience action in the CPT 

  Kurdish youth staged a civil disobedience action in the CPT building and called for urgent action against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan.
• The UN Human Rights Session opens in Geneva 

  During the session, high-level discussions will be held on various human rights related issues, such as the right to privacy, rights of persons with disabilities, rights of minorities, and rights of children.
• Journalists and KNK visited Strasbourg hunger strike activists 

  The indefinite non-alternating hunger strike in Strasbourg protesting the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan continues on day 71.
• Police stops protest outside Bakirkoy Prison 

  The police stopped the press statement about the hunger strikes that the Marmara Solidarity with Prisons Initiative wanted to hold in front of the Bakirkoy Closed Women’s Prison.
• Support for Imam Sis from Wales 

  Various groups offer support to Imam Sis, who continues his hunger strike on day 71 in Newport, Wales.
• Tribute to Sakine Cansiz in International Peoples’ Conference  

  The International Peoples’ Conference in Venezuela organized by the Landless Workers' Movement commemorated Sakine Cansiz.
• MKP prisoner goes on solidarity hunger strike 

  MKP prisoner Kadir Yıldız is on a 10-day hunger strike in solidarity with the Kurdish hunger strikers demanding an end to the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan.
• Internationalists martyred in Rojava remembered in Greece 

  One year ago, Icelandic internationalist Haukur Hilmarsson was martyred in a Turkish artillery attack in Rojava. He and the internationalists martyred in Rojava in the Greek city of Lavrio.
• YPG fighter Ashley Johnston remembered in Australia 

  Australian YPG fighter Ashley Johnston who lost his life in Rojava has been commemorated by his grave at the fourth anniversary of his martyrdom in the battle against ISIS.
• What is happening in Venezuela? 

  It was a tense weekend in Venezuela and its borders with Colombia and Brasil.
• Corsican politician Alfonsi visited hunger strikers in Strasbourg 

  Alfonsi criticised France's policy and said the entire Middle East situation should be addressed in a different way in Europe, recognising the true friends and condemning authoritarian regimes who are oppressing their people, especially women.
• New discrimination for Irish people in the North? 

  At least ten people received letters last month from the Electoral Office, which said their right to vote would be limited by their decision to identify themselves as Irish.
• Demonstrations against isolation all over Europe 

  Demonstrations were held in Karlsruhe, Frankfurt, Mannheim, in Germany as well as in Paris and La Rochelle in France and in Basel in Switzerland to protest isolation and support hunger strikers.
• Peruvian activist to meet Kurds in London 

  Veteran Peruvian activist Hugo Blanco will meet Kurdish people and internationalists in London.