INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS (IS4PP)

Spreading the voice of political prisoners around the world

  • The Jericho Movement: Prisoners in the US and worldwide

    The Jericho Movement: Prisoners in the US and worldwide

    Jericho Movement Support for International Political Prisoners May 26, 2025 True to its mission since its beginning in 1998, Jericho stands in full solidarity and support of all U.S. held Political Prisoners. But it’s support of Political Prisoners does not stop there. Jericho recognizes the necessity of extending its solidarity to all Political Prisoners around…

  • Athens: Protest in front of embassy

    Athens: Protest in front of embassy

    Actions to be continued after the detention and aim of the Ukrainian regime to send the 2 well-known antifascist Kononovich brothers to the front. Today, 60 people gathered in front of the Ukraine embassy in Athens, following a call of the Anti-Imperialist Front and other organisations of the Solidarity Committee for the Kononovich brothers. During…

  • Action in front of European Parliament in Brussels

    Action in front of European Parliament in Brussels

    A joint action took place today in Brussels in front of the European Parliament. In this action, the rights and freedoms were defended both for the anti-fascist brothers Kononovich in the Ukraine and for Zehra Kurtay in France.

  • Zehra Kurtay: Article of l’Humanite

    Zehra Kurtay: Article of l’Humanite

    Zehra Kurtay: Turkish journalist who took refuge in France risks deportation After suffering torture and imprisonment in her country, Turkish journalist Zehra Kurtay risks being expelled from France, where she had sought refuge since 2007. There is an emergency for the Turkish journalist and activist, who has been a refugee in France since 2007 but…

  • Dossier: Why it’s necessary to resist well-type prisons

    Dossier: Why it’s necessary to resist well-type prisons

    This international campaign aims to give a voice to the current protest by political prisoners in Turkey. For about two years, political prisoners have been defending themselves with indefinite hunger strikes against the most inhumane prison models that the Turkish state has ever produced to combat the opposition and the uprising. These new type S,…

  • National demonstration for the release of George Abdallah

    National demonstration for the release of George Abdallah

    A national demonstration is announced for 14th June in France (Paris) to demand the release of the political prisoner Georges Abdallah. His release has been postponed arbitrarily for several years. Abdallah is the longest political prisoner in Europe for he continues to defend equal rights for Palestinian people.

  • Protest against political extradition in Greece

    Protest against political extradition in Greece

    On 27th May a gathering was held in front of the French Embassy in Athens/Greece to demand the immediate release of Zehra Kurtay! Zehra is a political refugee in France and she was detained a few days ago with the attempt to extradite her to Turkey, a place where all political opposition forces are under…

  • Video update: Indefinite hungerstrike in Turkey

    Video update: Indefinite hungerstrike in Turkey

    The wife of political prisoner Fikret Akar gives an update on the situation of her husband who has been continuing his hungerstrike for nearly 60 days in hungerstrike against isolation prisons named S,R,Y and high security prisons.

  • Video: Urgent protest for political refugee in France

    Video: Urgent protest for political refugee in France

    English translation of the video statement in front of the prefecture of Créteil in France: Hello everyone, we are currently outside the Créteil prefecture to protest against the extradition decision against Zehra Kurtay. Zehra Kurtay is a former Turkish political prisoner, a anti-fascist, former socialist journalist, who had been imprisoned in Turkey for her political…

  • Emergency action for Kononovich brothers

    Emergency action for Kononovich brothers

    An Emergency Protest was held at the Ukrainian Embassy in London against the forced removal of the brothers Mikhail and Aleksander Kononovich to a military recruitment centre. According to reports on 22 May they were detained in a police car while on their way to a hospital, and when they called their lawyer, he too…

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