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• French senator and women visited hunger strikers in Strasbourg 

  The Kurdish activists on hunger strike in Strasbourg began their action on 17 December.
• Simonnet: The isolation must end, PKK ban must be lifted 

  France Left Front Coordination member Danielle Simonnet demanded an end to the isolation imposed upon Ocalan and the removal of PKK from the European terrorist organizations list.
• PKK and PAJK prisoners: We will continue our resistance 

  Deniz Kaya issued a message in the name of PKK and PAJK prisoners and said: “We will continue our resistance with great morale and resolve until our Leader lives and works free.”
• HDP delegation met with CPT about isolation 

  HDP MPs who are in Strasbourg for the ongoing Council of Europe (CoE) sessions met with the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) about the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan.
• Labour MP Morden visited Kurdish hunger striker in Newport 

  Hunger strikes against the isolation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan continue with great resolve.
• Strasbourg: Our resistance will continue until isolation ends 

  In a joint statement the 14 hunger strikers in Strasbourg confirmed that their action will continue.
• Erdogan’s gang in Germany only sentenced for petty crimes 

  Despite being proven that they worked under the Erdogan regime, the Osmanen Germania (“Ottomans of Germany”) gang leaders were sentenced to prison only for petty crimes.
• Actions for Leyla Güven in Switzerland 

  Several actions took place in Swiss cities to support HDP Hakkari MP who reached day 78 of her hunger strike.
• HDP meets with PACE President and CoE Secretary General 

  HDP delegation met with the PACE President and the CoE Secretary General, stressing the need to end the Imrali isolation.
• SDF Commander: Anti-IS forces must keep 'special status' 

  Any deal between Syria's Kurds and Damascus should respect the "special status" of Kurdish-led forces who fought the Islamic State group, a top Kurdish commander of those forces said.
• Actions for Leyla Güven in France 

  Several actions took place in many French cities to support HDP Hakkari MP who reached day 79 of her hunger strike.
• Academic for Peace receives prison sentence 

  Academic for Peace Dr. Yonca Demir was sentenced to 3 years in prison.
• PACE President: The ruling should be implemented in full 

  The PACE President said Leyla Guven’s release is a positive development and added: “Our expectation from Turkey is the full implementation of the reasonable decisions made by the PACE yesterday.”
• German cities for Leyla Güven 

  Actions are being organised in many cities of Germany to urge institutions to act quickly for Leyla Güven.
• "Guven will continue her hunger strike until the isolation ends" 

  HDP Co-chair Pervin Buldan announced that Leyla Guven will continue her hunger strike until the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Ocalan is broken. 
• Swedish Left Party members send support to Guven 

  International solidarity with Leyla Güven is growing.
• First photos of Leyla Guven after her release from prison 

  ANF captured first photos of DTK Co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Guven who has just been released from prison.
• Hearing of HDP's Demirtas postponed 

  The hearing of imprisoned Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas was postponed to April 24-25.
• Leyla Guven released from prison, will continue hunger strike 

  DTK Co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Guven has been released from prison. Guven will continue her hunger strike on the outside.
• Demo for Leyla Güven in front of the BBC in Cardiff 

  ​​​​​​​Thousands of Kurds and their friends gathered in dozens of cities in Europe urging to respond to the hunger strikers’ demands.
• From Derik to Kreuzberg, a friendship of books 

  A special relation between the town of Kreuzberg in Berlin and the city of Derik in Rojava has led to an international friendship between books. The Oh21 Library in Kreuzberg has decided to work with the Manesa Library in Derik city.
• Police blockade around Amed Prison before Güven’s release 

  Police forces have blockaded the Diyarbakır Prison, where Leyla Güven is held, after a court ruled for her release on Friday.
• Martyrs’ families demonstrate in front of the European Parliament 

  “Leyla Güven's action brings Kurdish women one step closer to freedom. There is hope for all the women of the world."
• MP Jallow: If a person is not free, society is not free 

  Jallow said that the Swedish Left Party would continue to support Kurds not only in the parliament or the PACE but everywhere. “This for us is a question of human rights - he said - and this is also a matter of rule of law and democracy.”
• 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.