The hunger strike launched in Turkish prisons against the Imrali isolation has entered its 130th day. The solidarity hunger strike launched in Maxmur has been continuing for 109 days and that in Greece for 92 days.
Political prisoners launched an indefinite-alternating hunger strike in Turkish prisons on November 27, in a bid to end the isolation against PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan, who has been held in Imralı High Security F Type Closed Prison for 22 years, and to protest the increasing violations of rights in prisons. The 26th group took over the action on its 130th day.
DAY 109 IN MAXMUR
On December 18, a hunger strike was launched in the Maxmur Camp in the Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq. The action, which is led by women, has been carried out in the Maxmur Martyr Families Association for 109 days.
DAY 92 IN GREECE
The indefinite-alternating hunger strike action launched in Greece's Lavrio Camp has been continuing for 91 days. The hunger strike in the camp is led by the Revolutionary Youth Movement (TCŞ-Tevgera Ciwanên Şoreşger), the Kurdish Women's Movement in Europe (Tevgera Jinên Kurdistan a Ewropa) and Kurdish Cultural Center (Navenda Çanda Kurdistan).
