Police raided the HDP building in Amed where 10 people including MPs are on hunger strike against the isolation of Öcalan. Deputies were battered and 7 activists were taken into custody.
Police forces raided the central building of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Amed (Diyarbakır) where 10 people are carrying out an indefinite and non-alternate hunger strike against the aggravated isolation imposed on Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan. The hunger strikers include HDP deputies Dersim Dağ, Tayip Temel and Murat Sarısaç.
Riot police units were deployed around the HDP building in the early evening hours, facing a barricade by deputies Ebru Günay, Musa Farisoğulları, Remziye Tosun, Selçuk Mızraklı, Semra Güzel and Pero Dündar.
After encircling the group, police broke the door and windows of the building to get inside.
HDP deputies Tayip Temel and Murat Sarısaç, who joined the hunger strike earlier today, were battered and 7 activists were taken into custody by the police.
The police siege around the HDP building continues and press members are not allowed to approach the area.
On March 3 when the hunger strike in the HDP building started, police raided the offices and detained 5 hunger strike activists on orders of Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu.
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