Political prisoners in Elazığ Prison, where some a thousand inmates are jailed, have been on an alternate hunger strike for a while. The hunger strike has been turned into an indefinite-irreversible one as of April 7 with the participation of two political prisoners from each ward.

The indefinite-irreversible hunger strike in Elazığ Prison will also continue until the demands of prisoners are accepted; end to the isolation imposed upon the Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, rights violations in prisons, rights violations during the State of Emergency and the blockade on Kurdish cities.