Hunger strike action on day 41
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- 09:43 06/1/2021
The hunger strike prioners started against the isolation on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan continues on its 41st day.
The hunger strike prioners started against the isolation on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan continues on its 41st day.
Our reporter Aslan, who was taken into custody in İstanbul, was taken to Antalya.
Hakkari Co-Mayor Cihan Karaman who was replaced with a trustee appointed by the Ministry of Interior was released at the third hearing against him.
Attorneys of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to meet with his clients.
35 people was accused with the record of statement a blind citizen Hasan Yalçın was forced to sign, after her daughter was forced to testify against him by the police.
TAJÊ manager Feride Şengalî stated that they will not back down from their struggle against the "Shengal Agreement" and called for a struggle against the dangers of silence.
İsmet Kaplan who was sentenced to death penalty which was later turned into prison sentence and was released after a while with an amnesty granted to prisoners said: "While the prisoners go on a hunger strike for their honour and their rights, what changes the outcome is the pressure on the governments from the outside" and called for support for hunger strikers.
A large number of students who protested Melih Bulu's appointment as the rector of Boğaziçi University by AKP's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, instead of being elected, were detained during raids on their homes.
The hunger strike prioners started against the isolation on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan continues on its 40th day.
ÖHD Urfa Branch Chair Ali Aslan told that the hunger strikers who chose to hunger strike as a last resort, doesn't require a personal regulation for themselves but the law to be upheld.
Our reporter Mehmet Aslan was detained during a raid on his home within the scope of an investigation started by the Antalya Chief Public Prosecutor's Office.
DFG announced that 79 journalists were detained in 2020 and 24 of them were imprisoned.
Boğaziçi University students sealed the rectorate building, protesting the appointment of Melih Bulu as a trustee rector, an AKP candidate for parliament.
DIB pointed out that the AKP-MHP government intensified its attacks in 2020 and pointed out the importance of increasing social power.
Today at the Old Bailey the district judge Vanessa Baraitser will deliver her decision on whether journalist and Wiki Leaks founder, Juliane Assange, should be extradited to face the charges in the US, where his lawyers say he faces up to 175 years in jail if convicted.