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• Court rules for Leyla Güven's release from prison 

  Kurdish politician Leyla Guven who has been on a hunger strike for 79 days to protest the isolation of Abdullah Ocalan, is set to be released.
• Journalist Evren reached day 40 of her hunger strike 

  Journalist Kibriye Evren is on hunger strike in Diyarbakır E Type prison.
• Swedish MPs: Afrin should be returned to its true owners 

  Social Democratic Workers’ Party MP Kadir Kasirga and Left Party MP Amineh Kakabaveh said Turkey should withdraw from the occupied Afrin and the district should be returned to its true owners.
• Opposition in Venezuela: Desperately looking to get hold of power 

  Most of the Venezuelan opposition groups began to mobilize, since Monday, in different cities.
• Council of Europe calls for an end to the isolation of Ocalan 

  The report on Leyla Guven’s hunger strike and Turkey, approved at the Council of Europe today, called for the removal of the isolation regime on Abdullah Ocalan.
• Mustafa Tuzak continues his hunger strike in Duisburg 

  Mustafa Tuzak (Melle) has gone on hunger strike in Duisburg 12 days ago.
• Support for Leyla Güven in Amsterdam 

  Activists reiterated the demands of the hunger strikers for an end to isolation against Öcalan and called for their release.
• Strasbourg hunger strike on day 39: Support for resistance grows 

  On day 39 of their fast, activists reiterated they will continue the hunger strike until isolation against Öcalan is lifted.
• The Safe Zone Northern Syria needs 

  “The United States must ensure that a safe zone is guaranteed by international forces and not by Turkey.”
• PACE calls on Turkey to release Leyla Güven 

  The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) met on Monday and Tuesday in Strasbourg.
• Photos from Guven’s last open visitation 

  Leyla Guven’s family has shared the photographs taken during the last open visitation she had with them.
• Alevis launch hunger strike in Dortmund 

  The Alevi congregation in Dortmund has launched a hunger strike in support of Leyla Guven.
• Swedish MP Jens Holm: Isolation of Ocalan must end immediately  

  Swedish Left Party MP Jens Holm offered support for the demands of Leyla Guven, who has been on a hunger strike, and said the isolation imposed upon Ocalan must end at once.
• HDP members in exile: PACE and CPT must exercise their authority 

  The demonstration held by exiled HDP elected officials in front of the Council of Europe continues today as the politicians call on the PACE and the CPT to exercise their authority against Turkey turning the most natural rights into “political blackmail”.
• "Bobby Sands taught us what hunger strike is" 

  Speakers underlined that the health condition of HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven has reached a critical stage and the Turkish state was urged to act before it was too late.
• Call for participation in Europe-wide demos against isolation 

  The KCDK-E, TJK-E and the Revolutionary Youth Movement have called upon everyone to join the demonstrations to protest the isolation of the Kurdish People’s Leader, Abdullah Ocalan.
• Hunger strikes on the Swedish Parliament’s agenda 

  2 MPs from the Swedish Left Party submitted written questions to take the hunger strikes to the Swedish Parliament’s agenda.
• Lawyers submit 784th appeal to visit Ocalan 

  Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan’s lawyers have appealed for the 784th time to visit their client.
• Nobel Prize Laureates urge Turkey to end the isolation 

  50 Nobel Prize Laureates call on Turkey to end solitary confinement of Abdullah Öcalan and other political prisoners.
• Google supports project for Kurdish Wikipedia 

  Wikipedia’s new project to boost Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish.
• Fuel theft puts Mexican government to the test 

  The explosion, and subsequent fire of a long section of the pipeline left at least 96 people dead and more than 200 injured.
• Scotland towards a second referendum on independence? 

  Nicola Sturgeon said Scottish Nationalist Party will present proposals in a few weeks of a possible new Independence referendum.
• Yazidi community in diaspora in solidarity with hunger strikers 

  Yazidi community representatives: We urge the CPT, the United Nations, and the European Court of Human Rights to not to be partners in Turkey’s crimes against humanity.
• DBP: The government should meet hunger strikers’ demands 

  “Kurdistan and Turkey should put pressure on the AKP government to meet the demands of the people. The AKP should abandon this isolation policy”, said the DBP.
• MPs call on Merkel to “put political pressure on Ankara” 

  Kurdish-German MPs of Die Linke Ozdemir, Sommer and Akbulut said they are in solidarity with Leyla Guven on her hunger strike and called on the Berlin government to put political pressure on Ankara to end the isolation in Imrali.