6 HDP members have gone on indefinite hunger strike in Amed on Sunday to demand the end of isolation against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.

Hours after the six HDP hunger strikers- Amed MP Dersim Dağ, Saleh Cansever, Ismet Yildiz, Sevic Yasar, Salih Tekin and Bilal Özgez- held a press conference to explain the reasons for their action, police that had surrounded the HDP building, forbid journalists and activists to enter.

Journalists who wanted to follow the raid were subjected to General Information Screening (GBT). As police entered the provincial building, HDP press officer Vedat Dağ was prevented from leaving the building.

The police raided the conference hall where the hunger strike continued, confiscating banners saying “Leyla Güven is right, isolation must end” and “Isolation is a crime against humanity, freedom for political prisoners” in Turkish and Kurdish.

During the search, HDP deputies who were trying to film the police were met with police holding their shields up to avoid been filmed.

After the raid HDP members Sevican Yaşar, Salih Cansever, İsmet Yıldız, Salih Tekin and Bilal Özgezer were taken into custody.

Sevican Yaşar, a hunger strike activist, was beaten by police before being taken into custody.

The 5 HDP members detained were taken to the Anti-Terror Directorate of the Diyarbakır Security Directorate. HDP MP Dersim Dağ continues the hunger strike in the HDP building while the other 5 HDP members continue their fast in custody.

Dersim Dağ MP wrote in her Twitter account after the raid: “Hunger strikers were taken into custody in Amed provincial building. No pressure will stop this resistance. We will succeed. We will definitely succeed.”