INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS (IS4PP)

Urgent Actions against force feeding to hungerstrike

  • Urgent actions and protests against the capture and threat of forcible medical intervention to death fast resister Serkan Onur Yilmaz were organized in different cities of Europe.
  • Since Wednesday, spontanous actions were held in front of Embassies and Consulates of Turkey in Paris, Rotterdam, Brussels, Athens and London to defend Serkan Onur Yilmaz, who was forcibly taken to Bolu state hospital eventually for force feeding torture on his 318th day of death fast on Tuesday, September 23.
  • During the protests the Turkish government was called to accept the demands of Serkan Onur Yilmaz and to close the pit-type isolation cells, which are the reason for 10 political prisoners to resist with hungerstrikes.
  • Also several phone calls were made to the Bolu F Type prison and to the state hospital, to which Serkan Onur Yilmaz was taken against his will. The responsible doctors were called not be accomplice to the unlawful, force feeding torture towards the hunger strike resister.
  • VIENNA: Today, on the 26th September, there was also organized an information booth in front of a railway station and shopping center of Vienna. Within two hours 100 leaflets were spread to the people to denounce the force feeding threat to Serkan Onur Yilmaz and to explain the resistance to S, R and Y- type isolation prisons in Turkey.
  • Dozens of people from different nationalities, including Palestinians and peoples of Turkey, who recognized songs from Arab resistance and Grup Yorum, gave attention to the solidarity action. They said that they would sign the petition and share the information. Some postcards were also distributed to be sent to the hunger strikers.

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