INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS (IS4PP)

Spreading the voice of political prisoners around the world

  • From the Arctic to Turkey…

    From the Arctic to Turkey…

    Again solidarity of the people crosses several borders and seas, reaching out for the resisting prisoners in Turkey. Letters from a Russian sailor to Serkan Onur Yilmaz (today on an indefinite hunger strike for 234 days! against isolation torture in “high security” S, R and Y type prisons) and Mithat Ozturk (today on an indefinite…

  • Struggle for the right of residence continues

    Struggle for the right of residence continues

    After the extradition request to Turkey was refused by a French court, the political refugee Zehra Kurtay continues her struggle as announced with an indefinite hunger strike for her right of residence in Paris. Her indefinite hunger strike will start on the 3rd of July, 2025 with a vigil at Porte Strasbourg in St. Denise.

  • Banner action for revolutionary prisoners on hungerstrike

    Banner action for revolutionary prisoners on hungerstrike

  • Statement by the families of Chilenian prisoner Mauricio Hernández Norambuena

    Statement by the families of Chilenian prisoner Mauricio Hernández Norambuena

    Mauricio Hernández Norambuena is a former guerrilla fighter and commander of the political-military organization Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, of which he became one of its main leaders. He acquired the nickname “Commander Ramiro”, with which he is still widely known today. Recently, his health is deteriorating and urgent calls for solidarity to get appropriate treatment…

  • Phone conversation with Fikret Akar

    Phone conversation with Fikret Akar

    Latest phone conversation with hunger striker Fikret Akar English subtitles

  • Solidarity with political refugee, lawyer Gunay Dag

    Solidarity with political refugee, lawyer Gunay Dag

    Solidarity with political refugees and solidarity with political prisoners are two issues very close to each other: A person that is restricted its basic rights, the right to movement and residence, is half a prisoner! More and more political refugees and migrants in Europe are under repression, the danger of expulsions and restricted or taken…

  • Fikret Akar’s wife is reporting about the last phone call

    Fikret Akar’s wife is reporting about the last phone call

    Yesterday, on the 89th day of the hungerstrike of political prisoner Fikret Akar, his wife had a phone conversation with him, in which he also informed about his court hearing, the problem not to receive pure Vitamin B1 during his long-term hungerstrike and repeating his demand to shut down the pit-type isolation policy. This is…

  • Solidarity chain starts in the Netherlands

    Solidarity chain starts in the Netherlands

    Nazife from the People’s Front in the Netherlands will be on hungerstrike from June 27-30, 2025 to support the resistance to S, R and Y pit-type isolation prison.

  • The solidarity chain continued in Greece

    The solidarity chain continued in Greece

    Ferhat Ertürk in Greece continued the chain of solidarity from June 25-26, 2025 to support the indefinite hungerstrike of the revolutionary prisoners in Turkey.

  • France stopped extradition!

    France stopped extradition!

    According to latest news, the extraditon of the political refugee in France, Zehra Kurtay to Turkey was stopped. After large-scaled protest against the repression and threat, the extraditon of Zehra was stopped. Further, it was informed that also the special limitations against her were lifted.

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