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• UN: Social leaders in Colombia face dramatic situation 

  In fact, according to the UN, while the general rate of homicides in the country has been reduced by 40 percent in recent years, violence against human rights defenders is increasing.
• Solidarity hunger strike against isolation in Rome 

  “With our action we want to give our contribution to break the isolation in Imrali while at the same time expose the war policies implemented by the AKP government in all four parts of Kurdistan.”
• Prison sentences for HDP’s Demirtas and Onder approved 

  Turkish judiciary has rapidly approved prison sentences for HDP former co-chair Selahattin Demirtas and former MP Sırrı Sureyya Onder after the ECHR verdict for Demirtas’ release.
• UK politicians sent solidarity and support message to MP Güven 

  Abdullah Ocalan has not been allowed to meet with his lawyers since 27 July 2011. He last met with a family member on 12 September 2016.
• 769th appeal to meet with Öcalan 

  Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyers appealed to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office for the 769th time to meet with their client.
• HDP launches hunger strike in the Turkish Parliament 

  HDP Co-chair Buldan and several HDP MPs have gone on a hunger strike in the Turkish Parliament.
• HDP MPs on hunger strike in Istanbul 

  Several HDP MPs have gone on a hunger strike in Istanbul. The MPs pointed out that the isolation against Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan affects everybody.
• Police issued YPG ban overthrown in court 

  Despite the ban by the Interior Ministry and some states, local courts have been issuing rulings that the YPG flag does not constitute a crime. Most recently, the local court in Gelsenkirchen acquitted German activist Monika Gärtner-Engel.
• 10 HDP members continue hunger strike in custody in Mersin 

  10 HDP members who went on a hunger strike to support Leyla Guven continue their hunger strike in custody after being detained by the police.
• DTK: Öcalan is a crucial actor to reach peace 

  DTK Co-Chair Berdan Öztürk called on the international community, democratic political parties, civil society organizations, opinion makers, intellectuals and writers to support hunger strike demands against isolation.
• Hunger strike for Öcalan in Toronto 

  The action has been undertaken in solidarity with HDP Hakkari deputy Leyla Güven.
• New President of Mexico sworn in 

  López Obrador made it very clear that he would respond only and solidly to the people who elected him and not to the oligarchic elites who have dominated the country for decades and who have traditionally been submissive to foreign interests.

• Chile: Free gender identity law implemented 

  It took Chile five years to finally sign the new regulations which will allow every citizen to chose his/her gender.
• MPs on hunger strike against isolation in Mersin 

  Following Leyla Guven’s resistance against the Imrali isolation, hunger strikes are spreading. HDP MPs in Mersin have started a 3-day hunger strike.
• 7 workers detained 

  The police raided the tent where 15 TOKI workers were holding a demonstration because they haven’t been paid for 2 years, and detained 7 of them.
• HDP deputies to start hunger strike in Parliament 

  Hunger strikes demanding an end to the isolation of Kurdish leader Öcalan are spreading.
• The Kurdish factor in world politics to be discussed at the EP 

  The 15th International Conference on "The European Union, Turkey, The Middle East and The Kurds" will take place on 5 and 6 December at the European Parliament.
• 10 hunger strikers detained after raid on HDP office in Mersin 

  HDP office in Mersin, where a 3-day hunger strike was launched earlier today, was raided by the police.
• Demonstrations for the PKK in Europe 

  In Austria, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and Italy Kurds have taken to the streets in protest at the repression against the Kurdish liberation movement and have called for freedom for Abdullah Öcalan.
• Hunger strike launched in Mersin in solidarity with MP Güven 

  Solidarity with HDP MP Leyla Güven, who is on hunger strike in prison against the isolation of Öcalan, is growing.
• Buldan: People will get rid of the AKP-appointed trustees 

  “The governing alliance should know that Kurds have not lost and won’t lose.”
• Naomi Klein: Why I am optimist about a Green New Deal 

  Canadian writher and activist Naomi Klein said she is optimist about the possibility of a Green New Deal.
• Loyalist violence ignored as gangs issue Brexit warning 

  Loyalist paramilitaries “have the run of the town" in County Antrim (North of Ireland), according to the owner of a repair business in Carrickfergus whose cars have repeatedly been torched.
• Thousands march over housing crisis in Dublin 

  Following the release of the latest set of homeless figures last week, several charities criticised the government over its failure to tackle the crisis.
• Thousands defied the PKK ban in Berlin 

  Masses gathered in Berlin on Saturday to mark the 25th year of the PKK ban in Germany and defied the German state’s bans against the Kurdish movement, chanting “Bijî Serok Apo”, carrying images of Öcalan and unfurling the flags of PKK, YPG and YPJ.