The HDP Amed Provincial Organization wanted to make a press statement in front of the Human Rights Monument in Koşuyolu Park in Bağlar district on the 146th day of the indefinite-alternating hunger strikes launched in Turkey’s prisons against the isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan. HDP and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Amed provincial co-chairs and administrators, Free Women Movement (TJA) activists, members of the Association for Solidarity with the Families of Prisoners and Convicts (TUAY-DER) and activists attended the event.

The police cordoned off the Human Rights Monument by placing barriers. When the crowd came to the park for the press release, the police stopped them at the park entrance.

The negotiations between HDP provincial co-chair Zeyyat Ceylan and the police came to nothing. The police hindered the statement citing that it addressed "isolation and hunger strikes".

The group responded to the police intervention by chanting the slogan “Bijî berxwedana zindana” (Long live the prison resistance) and held a sit-in to protest the isolation and to raise concern over the ongoing hunger strikes.