INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS (IS4PP)

Spreading the voice of political prisoners around the world

  • 14 July 2025: Solidarity Day for hungerstriking prisoners

    14 July 2025: Solidarity Day for hungerstriking prisoners

    A strong sign of international solidarity has been set for the hungerstriking political prisoners in Turkey by actions and 1 day solidarity hungerstrikes in different countries on the 14th of July. After almost 20 revolutionary prisoners in the past 2 years have succeeded with their hungerstrike resistance against the unlawful transfer to so-called „High Security…

  • Struggle against expulsion for right to residence

    Struggle against expulsion for right to residence

    Political refugee in France, Zehra Kurtay continues her indefinite hunger strike for the right to residence in a neighborhood of Paris. The resistance tent she set up there, is not just visited by Turkish and Kurdish community. Since the beginning of her action, she gets solidarity from French journalists, international activists and yesterday, on the…

  • Isolation Torture for revolutionary prisoners

    Isolation Torture for revolutionary prisoners

    A judge in Italy has decided to renew the isolation regime of 41bis for the former member of the Red Brigades (BR-PCC), Marco Mezzasalma. He was arrested in October 2004 and then kept in solitary confinement under the 41bis regime for 20 years. Judges decide every four years wheter this special prison regime be continued…

  • Hunger striker Ali Hasan Akgul released

    Hunger striker Ali Hasan Akgul released

    After 144 days of indefinite hunger strike against isolation prisons of type S, R and Y, the political prisoner Ali Hasan Akgul was released today by a court. We’ll keep informed about further news about his health state and procedures.

  • International Solidarity for Zehra

    International Solidarity for Zehra

    The indefinite hunger strike of Zehra Kurtay in Paris to gain back her right to residence continues to collect solidarity and attention of peoples from different nationalities and countries. Zehra was visited at her resistance tent by a comrade from Belarus living in France to express solidarity and make an interview. Watch the video:

  • Video Solidarity Call: Vitamin B1 for hungerstrike

    Video Solidarity Call: Vitamin B1 for hungerstrike

    The indefinite hunger strike of 8 political prisoners in Turkey continue against High Security Prisons (type S, R and Y), also named as pit-type prisons. On the 9th of July, another solidarity call was issued by the wife of Fikret Akar, who informed about the urgent need of pure vitamin B1 for her husband, which…

  • INTERVIEW WITH GROUP YORUM

    INTERVIEW WITH GROUP YORUM

    Hello. Thank you too. The repression is intensifying. This is very normal. Because there is resistance against repression. There is a cultural and artistic tradition that cannot be destroyed by oppression. There is a revolutionary culture and art tradition. So, some things are no longer enough for them, so, they are being forced to increase…

  • Solidarity for Zehra in Toulouse

    Solidarity for Zehra in Toulouse

    The indefinite hunger strike of Zehra Kurtay for her right to residence in France continues at Porte Strasbourg in St. Denise in Paris. This is one more example of solidarity by Secours Rouge Toulouse who has hung a poster of Zehra during an event against the highway A69. Solidarity for Zehra was also expressed from…

  • Ukrainian prisoner’s voice at UN Human Rights Council

    Ukrainian prisoner’s voice at UN Human Rights Council

    The representative of Belarus at the session of the UN Human Rights Council demanded the immediate release of the brothers Mikhail and Aleksander Kononovich and of all prisoners who have been persecuted by the Ukrainian authorities for expressing their civil position.

  • Update about political prisoner in Chile

    Update about political prisoner in Chile

    The following update was given on the 2nd of July regarding the state of health of political prisoner Mauricio Hernández Norambuena in Chile, who was a fighter against fascism during the military junta of Pinochet. Public statement Today, July 2nd, regarding the state of health of our brother Mauricio Hernández Norambuena, we inform that to…

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