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Extradition setback for Sean Walsh
From Irish Republican News Lawyers for Cork republican Sean Walsh, whose extradition to British jurisdiction has been brought before the European courts, have issued a stinging rebuke to a judgment handed down at the Luxembourg Courts. The ruling failed to block the extradition on the grounds of the legality and proportionality of criminal offence. The…
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WELL-TYPE PRISON’S REHABILITATION PROGRAM THAT DOES NOT AIM TO REHABILITATE
by FİKRET AKAR, who is currently on hunger strike against the isolation type of prisons, sent us a letter explaining the purpose of these prisons. On Saturday, February 1, 2025, we were brought to Karatepe “Well-Type” Prison. We refer to it as “Well-Type” because, under the name of “High Security Prison,” its architecture literally places…
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LETTER FROM FIKRET AKAR TO MUMIA ABU JAMAL
Çorlu, 18.03.25Dear Mumia,I hope this letter finds you in good health. As soon as I learned that I had the opportunity to correspond with you as a revolutionary prisoner in Turkish prisons, I wanted to write to you immediately.My spouse met with your lawyer in Germany and learned that I could write to you. I…
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Chain of Solidarity
Let us form a chain of solidarity for the hunger strikers in Turkey’s solitary prisons. They have literally been thrown into a deep hole. Their voices are meant to be silenced. They are practically buried alive. Dehumanization, loneliness, no air, no light… In 2021, the Turkish state secretly and insidiously created new types of prisons,…
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Repel Anti-Terror Law
TACT 2000 AIMS TO TARGET PROGRESSIVE ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS IN THE UK A SOAS University of London student, Sarah, has been charged, and another SOAS student has been arrested, under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act for ‘inviting support for a proscribed organisation’. Their supposed crime is to have made speeches on behalf of the…
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Isolation Prisons and Resistance In Turkey
Around three years ago, the Turkish state silently constructed a new type of prison. These are known as S, R, and Y-type prisons. The first inmates placed in these prisons were those convicted in PKK (Workers’ Party of Kurdistan), IS (Islamic State), and FETÖ (Gulen Movement) cases, and no public information was shared about these…
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