Basel group takes over Freedom for Öcalan Vigil

The activists from Basel appealed to the Kurdish people to be on the streets and called on everyone to act.

A new group of activists from a different country in Europe each week takes over the Freedom for Öcalan Vigil in front of the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg.

The action has been going on for almost 7 years.

This week, a group of four activists from Basel, Switzerland, has taken over the Vigil from members of the Women's Movement in Marseille.

The new group is made up of Kazakhstan Kurds, Xezal Kazakhstan and Mehmet Taş, Mamosta Tahir and Mehmet Göksungur.

The action has reached its 349th week and the members of the Basel group, taking over the Vigil, said that isolation against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan is no longer acceptable.

HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven and Kurdish politician Nasir Yağız, together with over 300 political prisoners and dozens of activists in Europe and Canada, have been on hunger strike demanding the end of isolation. Activists all over Europe have been organising actions and demos protesting the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) and other European institutions' inactivity.

In the statement they made while taking over the Vigil, the activists from Basel appealed to the Kurdish people to be on the streets and called on everyone to act.

In the area where ​​the Freedom for Öcalan Vigil is taking place, other Kurdish activists have begun as from Monday a 5-days hunger strike to support the activists on an indefinite hunger strike. The first group fasting for five days was from the PYD.