Spreading the voice of political prisoners around the world
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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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France has to stop extradition of political refugees to Turkey
No to the extradition of Zehra Kurtay! Zehra Kurtay must be released unconditionally! Zehra Kurtay is a political asylum seeker and has been living in France for years! Freedom for Zehra Kurtay! Zehra Kurtay is being held in the Oissel detention centre! The Prefect of Créteil (94) has taken a decision that could cost the…
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Today the indefinite hungerstrikes of 9 prisoners are far advanced:
Hungerstrike numbers by date: 26-05-2025: Sercan Ahmet Arslan: 219 Serkan Onur Yılmaz: 197 Bakican Işık: 158 Yurdagül Gümüş: 144 Mithat Öztürk: 102 Ali Hasan Akgül: 97 Ali Aracı: 97 Ayberk Demirdöğen: 77 Fikret Akar: 57
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In this hour a press statement is held at Izmir’s CHD department
ÖHD, ÇHD and İHD called for a press conference on the ongoing hunger strikes and well-type prisons at the department of CHD (Contemporary Lawyer’s Association) in Izmir. “We wait everyone to the press conference we will hold on the hunger strikes in prisons in Istanbul, Çorlu, Izmir, Ankara and Antalya demanding the closure of Y,…
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The chain of solidarity for resisting prisoners
Idil Vural is on a 1 week hunger strike to support the resistance of political prisoners in Turkey, against the isolation type prisons. Today the leading revolutionary prisoner Sercan Ahmet Arslan is on his 219th day of indefinite hunger strike. Close S, R, Y type isolation prisons! Her solidarity hunger strike will be from the…
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Phone conversation with hungerstriker Bakican Isik
For 157 days on indefinite hungerstrike against isolation prisons of the types S, R and Y political prisoner Bakican Isik shortly tells in a conversation why he was imprisoned and why he started his resistance. «I weight 45 kilos, but morally I feel very good».
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Prisoner’s Family Association TAYAD is collecting poems for the prisoners
In order to break the isolation, the relatives of political prisoners in Turkey who are organized in the Prisoner’s Solidarity Association TAYAD calls people to write a poem to be sent to the prisoners in well-type prisons, places without sunlight, without air, where human faces are forbidden to humans. It is a competition of poems…
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