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The International Solidarity for Political Prisoners was informed and we are alarmed about the serious health condition of political prisoner Maria José Baños. Her right to medical access should be immediately granted, she must not stay longer under such prison conditions! The Barcelona Anti-Repression Platform and the Ponent Anti-Repression Platform have launched a campaign for…

People’s Front in Greece opened an information booth in the center of Athens at Propylaia Square. The persons who are on a 15-day solidarity hunger strike with the death fast and hunger strike resistance in Turkey, stay there every day from 18.00-19.00 to raise awareness about the S, Y and High Security (pit-type) isolation prisons…

VIDEO: Solidarity Call of Secours Rouge from Marseille for the 300th day of death fast resistance of revolutionary prisoner in Turkey Serkan Onur Yilmaz. LONG LIVE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY! FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!

Date: 3 SEPTEMBER 2025 Subject: Urgent Update on Pit-Type Prisons and Prisoner Resistance in Turkey 1. Introduction This briefing provides an overview of Turkey’s S-, R-, and Y-type high-security prisons (also called “Well-Type” or “Pit-Type”), their architecture, history of resistance, and current human rights concerns. These prisons are part of a post-2000 “new generation” high-security…

Serkan Onur Yılmaz is on his 297th Day of death fast against isolation torture in pit-type prisons of Turkey. No human being can stay there for longer without getting serious psychological and physical diseases leading to slow and painful death by systematical isolation torture. Sign for the closure of these inhuman, unlawful prison facilities named…

SOLIDARITY HUNGER STRIKES, PROTEST ACTIONS AND VIGILS IN SUPPORT OF DEATH FAST RESISTERS IN TURKISH PRISONS A campaign of solidarity with Turkish political prisoner Serkan Onur Yilmaz, who has been on death fast for almost 300 days, and other political prisoners, holding hunger strike against pit-type prisons, continues in Europe. In the Netherlands, the People’s…

During the People’s Voice Festival in Vienna, which has been organized by the Austrian Communist Party for the 78th year and this year took place from August 30-31, an info booth was opened in the framework of the campaign against pit-type isolation prisons in Turkey. A banner of the Freedom Initiative for Political Prisoners in…

To save the life of Serkan Onur Yilmaz urgent mobiliziation is needed. On his 300th day of death fast, on September 6, 2025, we will organise an international solidarity hunger strike, in which we invite you all to join and make your efforts and solidarity visible on your channels. LONG LIVE THE RESISTANCE TO PIT-TYPE…

Students and communities of METU (ODTÜ), one of the most important universities, also for progressive students in Turkey, published a statemnt for Serkan Onur Yilmaz and pit-type prisons. Here’s the translation of the statement, signed by over 30 communities. SERKAN ONUR YILMAZ IS NOT ALONE!SHUT DOWN WELL-TYPE PRISONS! Pit-type isolation prisons are the darkest mechanisms…

Sevgi from Switzerland has started a 3-days solidarity hunger strike for the death fast resisters Serkan Onur Yilmaz and Ayberk Demirdögen, as well as for the other prisoners on hunger strike against pit-type isolation prisons. On the posters carried by her children it is written: “Shut down the S,R,Y prisons”, “Accept the demands of Serkan…