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• Öcalan's lawyers file application to visit Imrali 

  Lawyers of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and İmralı Prison Directorate to meet with their client.
• Prisoners in Giresun Espiye L Type jail go on hunger strike against increasing rights violations 

  Political prisoners in Giresun Espiye L Type Prison went on hunger strike against the increasing rights violations.
• Your silence kills campaign publishes new report on chemical weapons 

  Your silence kills campaign published a new report on Turkish use of chemical weapons.
• Rahila Gupta: Everyone should defend the Rojava Revolution 

  Writer and journalist Gupta said: "It is necessary to boycott Turkey, to stop seeing it as a holiday destination, because Turkey wants to eliminate the Rojava Revolution and Rojava’s one is a women's revolution."
• Families of prisoners on hunger strike in Ereğli jail thrown out of campus 

  Families, who met with the prisoners on an indefinite and non-alternating hunger strike in Ereğli prison, were forcibly thrown out of the prison campus without being allowed to meet with the prosecutor.
• HDP Amed MP Tosun protests war and attacks by throwing her white scarf to the ground 

  HDP Amed MP, Remziye Tosun, threw her white scarf to the board at the General Assembly, saying "Let the isolation be lifted and the war end."
• General strike in East Kurdistan and Iran enters day three 

  The general strike launched in East Kurdistan and Iran has marked its third day with many university students taking part in it.
• IADL joins campaign to OPCW for independent investigation into Turkey chemical weapons allegations 

  The International Association of Democratic Lawyers supports the following petition campaign and encourages all lawyers and legal workers around the world to sign on.
• Saarbrücken DKTM members take over Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan Vigil  

  Saarbrücken DKTM members took over the Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan Vigil on its 546th week.
• Unione Popolare sends message of solidarity with PKK 

  The Unione Popolare national coordination in Rome sent a message of solidarity with the Kurdish freedom movement and the PKK.
• Kurdish youth organizations carry out action at Geneva University to condemn isolation in Imrali  

  Kurdish youth organizations distributed leaflets at Geneva University to draw attention to the absolute isolation imposed upon Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Bülbül: UN, NATO, CPT, ECHR have complicity in isolation 

  Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Antalya Deputy Kemal Bülbül said that the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) and other institutions approved and supported the torture in the İmralı prison.
• Activists in Barcelona protest the invitation of Turkish Consul to a Catalan public institution 

  A group of activists protested the invitation of a representative of the Turkish state to a Catalan public institution.
• Swiss Committee for Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan calls for an urgent meeting with the Kurdish leader 

  The Swiss Committee for Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan raised concern about the life and safety of Kurdish leader Öcalan and demanded an immediate meeting with him.
• KCK: Protests must not stop until the CPT makes a statement and lawyers meet with Öcalan 

  “No one should stand still while Leader Öcalan’s life is under uncertainty and danger. Everyone must take action with a spirit of strong mobilization,” says the KCK.
• Activists carry out civil action at SPD event in Stuttgart 

  Activists carried out a civil action at an SPD event in Stuttgart to condemn the Turkish use of chemical weapons and to protest against the federal government's silence on the attacks on Rojava and South Kurdistan.
• Basque movement Askapena expresses solidarity with Kurdish people 

  The Basque movement Askapena expressed solidarity with Kurdish people.
• Anonymous hacks Swedish government's website to protest extradition of Mahmut Tat 

  Anonymous tweeted that it hacked the Swedish government's website to protest the extradition of Kurdish asylum seeker Mahmut Tat to Turkey.
• At least seven people die in roadside blast in Afghanistan 

  At least seven people have been killed in a roadside blast in northern Afghanistan, according to local officials, the latest attack in the violence-racked country.
• Young people in Berlin demand freedom for Öcalan  

  Young people reproduced the life of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan in an 11 square meter room for 24 years, and demanded his freedom by saying, "The future of the youth cannot be locked behind the doors of Imrali."
• KCDK-E: It's time to increase the struggle for Öcalan's freedom 

  The European Kurdish Democratic Societies Congress (KCDK-E) announced that a vigil would be carried out in front of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) from 7 to 9 December in order “to maximize the struggle for the freedom of Öcalan”.
• Arms sales of SIPRI Top 100 arms companies grow despite supply chain challenges 

  Sales of arms and military services by the 100 largest companies in the industry reached $592 billion in 2021, a 1.9 per cent increase compared with 2020 in real terms.
• General strike across Iran and Eastern Kurdistan 

  A general strike lasting several days has been underway again in Iran and Eastern Kurdistan since Monday, mainly to hit the economy of the Islamist system. The population is to refrain from shopping, shops remain closed.
• Kurdish asylum seeker extradited by Sweden jailed in Turkey 

  Mahmut Tat has been extradited from Sweden to Turkey. The Kurdish asylum seeker is to serve a final sentence of almost seven years in prison for alleged activities for the PKK.
• French media covers Turkish use of chemical weapons against the PKK 

  The French media covers the Turkish use of chemical weapons against the PKK guerrillas in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) where a large-scale Turkish military campaign has been underway since mid-April.