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• Actions for Leyla Güven in Berlin and London 

  DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven has been on hunger strike for 77 days.
• Visitors embraced hunger strikers in Strasbourg  

  Visitors continued to flock on Wednesday to commend hunger strikers in Strasbourg.
• Turkish air strike kills civilians in South Kurdistan 

  The Turkish state’s genocidal attacks against the Kurdish people and their lands continue increasingly.
• French left-wing leader calls for action for hunger strikers 

  Jean Luc Mélenchon, leader of the left-wing opposition umbrella party La France Insoumise (“Unbowing France”) gave a speech in the National Parliament and called on the government to take action for Guven and other hunger strike activists.
• Italian former political prisoner writes to Leyla Güven 

  "Having personally spent a number of years in US federal prisons, and some of those in isolation, I fully understand the necessity to break the silence around Ocalan's condition," said Italian former political prisoner in her letter to Leyla Güven.
• Political prisoners of 26 years go on hunger strike  

  Huseyin Duman and another political prisoner in the Burhaniye Type T Closed Prison started a hunger strike 9 days ago.
• HDP officials’ protest for Guven in front of the CoE on day 2 

  Elected HDP officials in exile issued a call for action in front of the CoE on the second day of their demonstration to support Leyla Guven, who has been on a hunger strike for 77 days against the isolation.
• Swedish Left Party former leader supports Leyla Guven 

  Former leader of the Swedish Left Party Lars Ohly said, “We support Leyla Guven who is fighting for an end to the isolation against Ocalan.”
• State of the media in Turkey discussed in PACE 

  AKP members in the PACE argued, like always, that Turkey doesn’t have such issues. But several MPs pointed out the pressure the media faces in 47 countries, starting with Turkey, Russia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine.
• Swedish MPs in solidarity with Leyla Güven 

  More politicians from Sweden expressed solidarity with Leyla Güven.
• HDP deputies and politicians urged Europe to act 

  HDP politicians in exile called on Europe to take immediate action against the isolation regime imposed upon Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• German Radical Left: Internationalism is not a crime 

  Five internationalist Italian activists who have been in Rojava faced repressive measures as police asked Court to decide on expulsion orders and special surveillance.
• Kurdish and French people visited hunger strikers in Strasbourg 

  Solidarity with hunger strike actions against isolation continues.
• Academics for Peace visited hunger strikers in Strasbourg 

  Solidarity with hunger strikes against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan is growing.
• HDP building in Amed raided by the police 

  The Turkish state continues its repressive measures against the Kurdish people and the HDP.
• Basque party EH Bildu expressed solidarity with Leyla Guven 

  The Basque party EH Bildu expressed solidarity with Leyla Guven and all hunger strikers and demand freedom for Ocalan.
• Swedish parties and NGOs support Leyla Guven 

  International solidarity with Leyla Guven, on hunger strike for 67 days in protest at the isolation regime imposed on Abdullah Ocalan, is growing.
• HDP’s Temelli in Strasbourg: CPT and CoE should take action 

  HDP co-chair Sezai Temelli was in Strasbourg, accompanied by Amed MP Feleknas Uca, for the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) session.
• French MPs visit Rojava 

  Two MPs from the movement La France Insoumise led by former French President Jean Luc Melenchon held a solidarity visit to Rojava.
• HPD politicians in exile launch solidarity hunger strike 

  As the indefinite and non-alternating hunger strike in Strasbourg, France to protest the aggravated isolation against Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan enters day 37, the exiled elected HDP officials started a 4-day hunger strike.
• HDP to start a vigil in Amed to support hunger strikes 

  HDP MP Musa Farisogullari stated that the HDP will initiate a vigil action on January 27 in order to support the activists on the hunger strike, adding that the AKP intended to distance Ocalan from the society by aggravating the isolation.
• Israeli attack in Syria kills 21 

  The death toll in the Israeli jets bombing Syrian regime forces and their ally Iran has risen to 21.
• MP from Wales urges UK Foreign Secretary to act against isolation 

  Ilhan Sis is on day 37 of his hunger strike in Newport, Wales. Welsh MP Liz Saville Roberts wrote a letter to Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt calling for action against the isolation.
• Leyla Guven unable to attend visits for 12 days 

  DTK Co-chair Leyla Guven has been on a hunger strike for 76 days to demand an end to the isolation against Ocalan and has been unable to attend her lawyers’ visits for the last 12 days due to her health conditions.
• Swedish Greens MEP: Accept Guven’s rightful demand 

  Solidarity with Leyla Güven is growing as she continues her hunger strike for the 76th day.