The Kurdish Women’s Movement in Europe (TJK-E) and the Kurdish Community Centre in Belgium (NAV-BEL) organised a demonstration in front of the Council of Europe to denounce the isolation regime executed against Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan after Thursday’s media reports of a fire on the Imralı Island where he is held together with Veysi Aktaş, Ömer Hayri Konar and Hamili Yıldırım.

Displaying images of Öcalan and a banner reading “Isolation is a crime against humanity, end the Imralı torture”, demonstrators called on the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) to act immediately for the Kurdish leader.

A delegation representing the crowd met with officials who said they would convey the demonstrators’ demand to the CPT headquarters in Strasbourg.