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• Demir: Guven’s situation continues to worsen 

  Diyarbakir Chamber of Medicine Chairperson Mehmet Serif Demir said Leyla Guven is fatigued and having difficulty taking fluids, she has lost a significant amount of weight and muscle mass.
• Die Linke: End the isolation, start negotiations 

  Die Linke issued a statement calling for an immediate end to the isolation and the start of negotiations, calling on the German state to not be complicit in Turkey’s crimes.
• 130 ISIS prisoners in Rojava to be taken to France to face trial 

  France will be flying back 130 of the arrested ISIS members in Rojava in the coming weeks.
• Teachers in California achieved historic victory 

  After several weeks of strike teachers in Los Angeles achieved a historic victory.
• March in Marseille for Ocalan’s freedom 

  Kurds in Marseille took to the streets to protest the isolation imposed of Abdullah Ocalan, demanding that the CPT immediately visit the Imrali prison where he is held.
• Action for Leyla Güven at the University of Cologne 

  Activists handed out leaflets and explaining the reason that led DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven to go on hunger strike.
• Demos to support hunger strikers in Basel and Marburg 

  Demonstrations in solidarity with Kurdish hunger strikers continue all around the world.
• Lawyer of Ocalan meets with MPs in London 

  Bilmez was hopeful about the response received in the meetings, particularly concerning the agreements to raise questions about the hunger strikes and the isolation of Ocalan.
• Crowd gathered in front of Leyla Güven’s house in Amed 

  People from Amed’s main parties and organisations met in front of Leyla Güven’s house in Amed to show their solidarity.
• Actions for Rojava across the United States 

  Demonstrations took place across the United States on January 27th, as several organizations answered the call for global days of action to defend the revolution in Rojava on the anniversary of the liberation of Kobane.
• Call to international organizations to act for hunger strikers 

  The new leadership and executives of Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê visited hunger strikers in Strasbourg as the first of their commitment to the Kurdish community.
• Strasbourg hunger strikers experiencing various health problems 

  “Since activists do not accept any treatment, any inflammation can spread to the lungs. This is the situation that frightens us the most. We talked to the activists about giving them treatment for this condition, but the activists responded negatively.”
• Turkish military presence on Iraqi parliament's agenda 

  The people of Sheladize in Kurdistan Region on January 26 rose up against the killing of four civilians by the occupying Turkish army, and stormed the Sire Turkish base. During the protests, 2 civilians were killed and six others were severely injured.
• Hunger strike in Toronto continues on day 16 

  Yusuf Iba has been on hunger strike for 16 days in the city of Toronto, Canada.
• Solidarity Party of Afghanistan supports Kurdish hunger strikers 

  Selay Ghaffar demanded freedom for Abdullah Ocalan and political prisoners, saying; "We have to get closer, we have to be one, they are afraid of our unity.”
• 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.