Solidarity was mobilised this weekend for Tugcenur Özbay, a female political prisoner who has been on hunger strike for 100 days to protest against the Sakran prison administration’s degrading imposition of a prisoner ID badge. The 8th of May marked the 100th day of her protest. Since she started her hunger strike, she has dropped…

“Does a person in this country really have to be on hunger strike for 100 days to see their mother?” In Turkey, political prisoner Tugcenur Özbay is approaching the 100th day of her hunger strike against the introduction of prisoner ID cards and the violation of her fundamental rights. The administration of Şakran Prison in…

The Basque prisoner Iñaki Bilbao Goikoetxea, known as Txikito, has begun a hunger strike and has refused all communication after being placed in solitary confinement at Zaballa prison for refusing to remove political symbols, including Basque and Cuban flags, from his cell window. He has been imprisoned for a total of 42 years and was…

Around 40 victories were achieved in Turkey’s pit-like isolation prisons. These ‘high security’ prisons, of types S and Y, are places without fresh air, sunlight or human contact. They were constructed to punish the individual it considers as a threat, that is political prisoners, by keeping them in total isolation in architecture that makes them…

The hunger strike in solidarity with political prisoners in Turkey continues. Three resisters — Tahsin Sagaltici, Hüseyin Özen and Gürkan Türkoglu — won their struggle against a pit-type isolation prison. Gürkan Türkoglu, who underwent forced intervention on the 265th day of his hunger strike, the day before the 3 prisoners defeated isolation, remains at high…

In a brief statement released on 30 April, the People’s Law Office reported that Gürkan Türkoğlu’s condition had deteriorated at around 8:00 am. Gürkan Türkoglu went on an indefinite hunger strike for 265 days to protest against the systematic isolation conditions he and others faced at Antalya’s High Security Prison, and to demand a transfer…

Thanks to solidarity and the struggle, we are pleased to announce that María José Baños has been released yesterday afternoon. As a long-term political prisoner, she suffered from serious health problems. However, her release was delayed for a long time. This victory was only possible thanks to her determination and resilience, the cornerstones of an…

The international solidarity chain, which began on 30 March 2025 to support the resistance of political prisoners in Turkey against a new regime of isolation torture in so-called pit-type prisons, continues. Solidarity hunger strikes are continuing in Great Britain from 25 April to 15 May. Gülay is supporting the prisoners resisting in Turkey by staging…

This is the latest update about Gürkan Türkoglu’s health condition, published by the TAYAD FAMILIES in a video message from 24 April. ****************** TAYAD – Update on Gürkan Türkoğlu’s health (24 April 2026) Transcription of the video: “Hello everyone. We are the TAYAD Families. We continue to wait outside the hospital where Hüseyin Özen, Tahsin…

The PCE(r) political prisoner Lucio García Blanco will was released from Villabona Prison on 26 April without having agreed to the demand for a confession, despite suffering from senile dementia and having been tortured. On 26 April, the Spanish prison authorities will have to release Lucio García Blanco, a 75-year-old labourer and communist activist with…