INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS (IS4PP)

Spreading the voice of political prisoners around the world

  • Greece: Gathering in front of Turkey’s embassy

    Greece: Gathering in front of Turkey’s embassy

    In Athens a gathering was organized in front of the embassy of Turkey today, in order to support the political prisoner Serkan Onur Yilmaz, who is on death fast for 279 days to resist isolation prisons of type S,R and Y (pit-types). In the protest a call was made to join the campaign and to…

  • PIT-TYPE CHAT ON THE TELEGRAM CHANNEL OF ANTI-IMPERIALIST FRONT:

    PIT-TYPE CHAT ON THE TELEGRAM CHANNEL OF ANTI-IMPERIALIST FRONT:

    On Saturday, 16 August, on the 280th day of Serkan Onur Yılmaz’s Hunger Strike, a discussion will be hold at the Telegram channel of AIF on the pit-type prisons.   One of the speakers will be Şükriye Akar, whose husband has been on a hunger strike for approximately 140 days.   A speaker from TAYAD is also…

  • International participation in 1 day solidarity hunger strike

    International participation in 1 day solidarity hunger strike

    On the 13th of August, in various countries of Europe, people of different nationalities joined a 1-day solidarity hunger strike to support the demands of the death fast resister Serkan Onur Yilmaz and other political prisoners on indefinite hungerstrike against “High Security Prisons” and type S, R and Y isolation prisons. Serkan Onur Yilmaz has…

  • URGENT APPEAL BY WIFE OF TURKISH POLITICAL PRISONER TO UN OVER HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN PRISONS

    URGENT APPEAL BY WIFE OF TURKISH POLITICAL PRISONER TO UN OVER HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN PRISONS

    Subject: Urgent Appeal Regarding Human Rights Violations Resulting from the Model of Enhanced Solitary Confinement in Turkish Y-Type and High-Security Prisons Dear Sir or Madam, My name is Şükriye Akar, a German citizen of Turkish origin. I am writing to you with urgency and deep concern regarding ongoing and systemic human rights violations occurring within…

  • Turkey: Mailing addresses of prisoners on indefinite hungerstrike/death fast

    Turkey: Mailing addresses of prisoners on indefinite hungerstrike/death fast

    These are the names and addresses of the political prisoners who are recently on indefinite hunger strike/death fast to oppose new installed S, R and Y (High Security/pit-type) isolation prisons in Turkey 1- Serkan Onur Yilmaz: Bolu F-type prison (started with an indefinite hunger strike on 10 November 2024, recently he has transformed his hunger…

  • VIDEO: 1-day solidarity hunger strike

    VIDEO: 1-day solidarity hunger strike

    Konstantina Kartsioti launched a 1-day solidarity hunger strike today in Greece, to express support for death fast resister in Turkey Serkan Onur Yilmaz. Serkan Onur Yilmaz has reached his 275th day of hunger resistance which he transformed to a death fast. Together with other revolutionary prisoners on indefinite hunger strike in Turkey, he demands the…

  • 1-Day Solidarity Hunger Strike

    1-Day Solidarity Hunger Strike

    On 13 August another day of solidarity with the indefinite hunger resistance/death fast against pit-type isolation prisons in Turkey will be held. International Solidarity for Political Prisoners calls once again to peoples of different countries to support this action with a 1-day solidarity hunger strike. The voice of the political prisoners who are at risk…

  • Solidarity rally for hungerstrike in London

    Solidarity rally for hungerstrike in London

    There was also held a solidarity rally in London today to support the demands of death fast resister Serkan Onur Yilmaz and other hunger strikers. Once again, the voice of the revolutionary prisoners and their demands to close the pit-type isolation prisons and to stop the transfer to such prisons was raised in front of…

  • Greece: Solidarity action for the prisoners in resistance

    Greece: Solidarity action for the prisoners in resistance

    A rally was held in front of the Turkish Embassy in Athens to express solidarity with the revolutionary prisoners who are fighting with an indefinite hunger strike against S, R and Y (pit-type) isolation prisons. The action was also organized to draw attention to the serious health condition of Serkan Onur Yilmaz who has turned…

  • Solidarity chain continues

    Solidarity chain continues

    Sukriye Akar, the wife of Fikret Akar who along 8 other political prisoners in Turkey continues an indefinite hunger strike against “pit-type” isolation prisons, announced a 3-days solidarity hunger strike (8-10 August) in support of the demands of Serkan Onur Yilmaz, who has transformed his indefinite hungerstrike to a death fast. Watch the video:

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