The Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association (IRPWA) has launched a national campaign calling for the immediate release of Irish Republican Prisoner Niall Sheerin.  Niall Sheerin has served every single day of the sentence imposed upon him by a British court. “Yet, in a blatant act of state-sponsored kidnapping, he remains caged within the walls of…

This afternoon, we received an urgent alert from Mikhail Kononovich, reporting that his brother Alexander has been kidnapped in Kiev by employees of the Territorial recruitment center. Anti-fascist political prisoner Alexander Kononovich was kidnapped just before the court session, where the brothers were supposed to extend the measure of restraint and wear a GPS bracelet.…

In the framework of the international solidarity for political prisoners and especially the ongoing hunger strike resistance of political prisoners in Turkey, we call for a 2-days letter writing campaign to the prisoners in resistance and sick prisoners who need our voices. PLEASE JOIN US FEBRUARY 28 – MARCH 1 Write to the Prisoners on…

Here’s the English translation of the TAYAD statement DOWN WITH FASCISM — LONG LIVE OUR STRUGGLE! On February 19, 2026, a delegation from the Anti-Imperialist Front — including academics and lawyers — came to our country to gather information about the so-called “well-type” prisons and to meet with democratic mass organizations regarding this issue. After…

Following is the English transcription and translation of the video statement of lawyer Alejandra Matamoros, citizen of Spain, who was detained along with 6 other delegation members in Turkey. Their legal mission was to collect data on the high security isolation prisons of type S, R and Y in Turkey, which was arbitrarily interrupted by…

Anti-fascist political prisoners in A Lama prison begin hunger strike in solidarity with María José Baños The political prisoners in A Lama are beginning a hunger strike today, Friday 20 February, one day a week, demanding the release of María José Baños. From next week onwards, they will do so on Tuesdays. We attach the…

A group of European prison rights observers visited Turkey on February 18 to carry out investigations about a new installed prison system, which is being criticized for systematical violation of the prisoner’s rights through heavy isolation torture. A group of 7 delegates from 5 countries travelled to Turkey to visit among others human rights lawyers…

English translation of the declaration of the french lawyers  Paris, February 20, 2026 Press Release Arrest in Istanbul of Six Activists Investigating Detention Conditions in Turkey Mr. Jean-Pascal Graziani, whom we represent as legal counsel, arrived in Istanbul on February 18, 2026, to document human rights violations within Turkish prisons. He was arrested yesterday along…

MEMBERS OF AN INTERNATIONAL DELEGATION VISITING TÜRKİYE TO OBSERVE THE “PIT-TYPE” PRISON MODEL AND INHUMANE ISOLATION CONDITIONS HAVE BEEN DETAINED. IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE DELEGATION MEMBERS DEMANDED! Here is a very recent statement by the International Bureau of the People’s Law Office: We have learned that members of the international delegation—consisting of lawyers, journalists, and…

February 14th marked the 200th day of indefinite hunger strike of the political prisoners in Turkey, Tahsin Sagaltici and Gürkan Türkoglu. Their resistance is part of an uninterrupted prisoner mobilization in order to fight S, R and Y type isolation prisons. These pit-like prisons (officially called High Security Prisons) have become places, where in the…