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Health situation of SERKAN ONUR YILMAZ: During a visit by his lawyer Serkan Onur Yilmaz said that Deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioglu who visited Serkan Onur Yilmaz on his 278th day of death fast reported: “He had become very thin. He had brown rashes on his skin, which was dry. He couldn’t sleep at night and…

Just a few minutes ago, the People’s Law Office in Turkey, confirmed that their client, “Mithat Öztürk has been transferred to Sincan Type F Prison No. 1 and has ended his indefinite hunger strike”. The lawyers added: “We would like to thank our people and colleagues who have not remained indifferent to the death fasts…

On August 25, the 288th day of death fast resistance of Serkan Onur Yilmaz, members of the band Grup Yorum were on a 1-day solidarity hunger strike to support his demands. The S,R,Y pit-type isolation prisons shall be closed! Marcel, a member of the Internatioanal Art Front also joined Grup Yorum in the hunger strike:

The mobilization for the 10 hungerstrikers/death fast resister Serkan Onur Yilmaz continues. In the past week numerous actions took place along Europe to denounce the inhuman conditions in S,R,Y (Higah Security Prisons) in Turkey. The prison architecture that recalls a pit and the systematic isolation applied towards the prisoners in these facilities cleary violate any…

Another example which also demonstrates the international reach of the resistance was experienced in Belarus. A solidarity meeting for Serkan Onur Yilmaz was held in Minsk today, as part of the international action day for the hunger strike resistance in Turkey. The participants were informed about the resistance of the revolutionary prisoners to the pit-type…

Another impressive example of solidarity action for Serkan Onur Yilmaz, on the 285th day of his death fast, was performed in front of the resistance tent of political refugee Zehra Kurtay in Paris. People draw attention to the struggle against pit-type isolation prisons by wearing shrouds and shields with the names of the prisoners on…

A contribution was made for the international action day today also by comrades of Secours Rouge in Toulouse.Posters were hung for the freedom and in support of Serkan Onur Yilmaz who has been on death fast for almost 300 days.

The information and solidarity tent near the UN Office for Human Rights at the United Nations Square in Geneva continues for the 3rd day. Today, Sükriye Akar, the wife of political prisoner Fikret Akar who continues an indefinite hunger strike against pit-type isolation prisons for 146 days, personally handed over her urgent appeal to the…

Today another international action day was announced for the prisoners on death fast/indefinite hungerstrike against S, R and Y isolation prisons in Turkey. The day of action included a number of solidarity actions, as sending letters to the prisoners, to the Ministry of Justice and also to tag other international institutions as the UN in…

In the last 2 weeks, Turkish TV channels, human rights lawyers, deputies and prisoners’ relatives increased their reports to clarify how serious the situation of prisoner Serkan Onur Yilmaz has become. The health situation of the death fast resister has detoriated as much that there might be no recovery. But worse of that, his life…