Imprisoned for more than 24 years on the prison island of Imrali, the Kurdish people's leader, Abdullah Öcalan, has been held incommunicado for 30 months now, without any contact with the outside world. The complete lack of information regarding the situation of Öcalan and his three fellow prisoners – Hamili Yıldırım, Ömer Hayri Konar and Veysi Aktaş – raises growing concerns about their safety and health. Countless requests for visits filed for years by the lawyers and families of Imrali detainees have gone unanswered.

People from the Euphrates Region in North-East Syria took to the streets in Kobanê on Sunday and staged a march to protest the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan and demand his freedom.

The demonstration was organized by the Revolutionary Youth Movement under the slogan “To the Struggle for Freedom for the Physical Freedom of the Leader”.

The protest march was followed by a press statement, read out by Hîlal Elî, a member of the Revolutionary Youth Movement in the Euphrates Region.

The statement stressed that young people would remain in action until the physical freedom of Öcalan was attained.

“We are concerned over the wellbeing of our leader, from whom we have received no news for years. We will achieve Leader Öcalan’s physical freedom, whatever the cost. As young people, we promise to keep our struggle going on the path of our leader.”

The demonstration concluded with the slogan "Bê Serok jiyan nabe" (No Life Without the Leader).