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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…

In Paris people gathered in front of the Consulate General of Turkey to defend the life of death fast resister Serkan Onur Yilmaz. Statements were made to express the urgency of the issue and to expose the inhuman conditions in pit-type prisons. During the action, the appeal for Fikret Akar that was submitted to the…

Before the international action day on the 22nd August, this week was already marked with urgent protests in front of Turkey’s foreign representative institutions. An action was held in front of the embassy of Turkey in Den Haag, The Netherlands to support the hunger strike resistance and to demand an end to the S,R and…

From 20-23 August, 2025, a protest tent against the S, R and Y (High Security Prisons) is being opened at the United Nations Square near the UN-Office in Geneva. With this action, members of the Boran Cultural Center in Basel and Peoples’s Front Switzerland draw attention to the serious condition of death fast resister Serkan…

The People’s Law Bureau tells us why their client Serkan Onur Yılmaz, who is on the 283rd day of a death fast and getting closer to death with each passing day, demanding the closure of “well-type” prisons. These prisons are built as three-story facilities. They contain single-person and three-person cells. While political prisoners are mostly…

THE LIFE OF SERKAN ONUR YILMAZ WHO APPROACHES 300 DAYS OF DEATH FAST FOR THE TRANSFER OF HIS COMRADES TO ANTOHER PRISON WITHOUT ISOLATION TORTURE IS IN SEVERE DANGER. International Solidarity will prevent his death and also the continuation of the inhuman, unlawful S, R and Y type isolation prisons! Let us stop the pit-type…

Where there is oppression and injustice, there will grow resistance… While 10 political prisoners recently continue an indefinite hungerstrike, including the death fast of Serkan Onur Yilmaz against the pit-type isolation prisons and its unlawful and inhuman practices towards prisoners, new fronts are opened against arbitrary measures. The following revolutionary prisoners at Kandıra’s F Type…

Let´s safe the life of Serkan Onur Yilmaz Serkan Onur Yilmaz is on death fast for nearly 300 days.He transformed his indefinite hunger strike to a death fast resistance at 31st July 2025. The Turkish state wants to silence any resistance and especially to silence the voices of hungerstrikes against pit-type isolation prisons.Serkan is currently…

Here we publish a video statement of lawyer Doga Incesu, who has visited his client, Serkan Onur Yilmaz on his 278th day of death fast at Bolu F Type prison. ENGLISH subtitled video: “Today, we visited our client Serkan Onur Yilmaz at Bolu Type F Prison. He said that he was in a lot of…