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The latest victory of political prisoners in resistance to the pit-type isolation prisons was achieved by Fikret Akar. He was kept at Corlu-Karatepe High Security Prison and transfered to Tekirdag’s F Type prison, where he has now interrupted his indefinite hunger strike. (click here to read the statement about Fikret Akar’s victory) The hungerstrike and…

The demands of the political prisoner in Turkey Fikret Akar, who was on indefinite hunger strike against severe isolation in pit-type prison, were accepted on 29 November. However, he was forcibly kept in hospital with a forged stamp, they did not give him vitamins B1 and B3, and kept him in a freezing cold room…

Basque political prisoner Patxi Ruiz continues his fight to denounce the disastrous health care in the prison of Iruñea (Nafarroa). In view of the latest terrible events, in which a woman prisoner has lost her life due to an ailment, Ruiz has undertaken a new battle: he has started yesterday, December 9, a hunger strike…

We are informed about new attacks by the Ecuadorian state towards Gabriela Gallardo, a Guevarist political prisoner. According a news alert of Socorro Rojo Nuestra América, “a new episode of institutional violence, harassment and spoliation against our comrade Gabriela Gallardo, Guevarist activist and political prisoner of the Ecuadorian state” has occured. The statement continues as…

From 4th-6th December, solidarity actions took place in different European cities to highlight the struggle of political prisoners in Turkey against isolation prisons and deprivation of their rights, as communication, publications and visits. This mobilization was made on the occasion of Ayberk Demirdogen’s 270th day of death fast. His condition is critical, but his will…

This is a statement from the People’s Law Office about the forcible transfer of death fast resister Ayberk Demirdögen to hospital on the 21st of November. AYBERK DEMIRDOGEN, WHO HAS BEEN ON A DEATH FAST FOR 264 DAYS TO DEMAND THE CLOSURE OF PIT-TYPE PRISONS, WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL ON FRIDAY, 21 NOVEMBER! UPON HIS…

Fikret Akar’s demand to be transferred from a ‘pit-like’ isolation prison, where he had been on hunger strike for 245 days, was accepted. Today, the political prisoner Fikret Akar was transferred from Çorlu-Karatepe High Security Prison to Tekirdağ Type F Prison No 2. His transfer is another victory in the long-lasting ongoing resistance of political…

Following statement was issued by the ‘ORGANIZATION OF FREE PRISONERS’ about death fast resister Serkan Onur Yilmaz, who paused his hunger resistance on the 375th day full of struggle. THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES WITH 13 RESISTERS! “Serkan Onur Yılmaz began his indefinite hunger strike on 11 November 2024 in Antalya Pit-Type Prison. The aim of his…

On November 13, Secoure Rouge Toulouse (Toulouse Red Aid) organized a panel on prisons and resistance in Turkey. Despite being held on a weekday, this panel in southern France attracted a lot of interest. Şükriye Akar from Anti Imperialist France and in the time wife of hunger striker Fikret Akar, participated as a speaker. She…

In the following video (original version with English subtitles), Sükriye Akar talks about her most recent telephone conversation on 22 November with her husband, Fikret Akar, who is imprisoned in Turkey. He has been on an indefinite hunger strike for 242 days to demand his transfer from the Corum-Karatepe High Security Prison, which is one…