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• Activists in Perth demand freedom for Öcalan 

  A small plane carried a banner demanding "Freedom for Öcalan" in the sky above the Australian city of Perth as part of the "Time for Freedom" initiative.
• HDP MP Feleknas Uca: The agreement aims to depopulate Shengal 

  "Shengal is a strategically important region. On one side is Rojava, and in the other direction is Iran. The US is pursuing its own plans in this area. No one has the right to play with the fate of our people," says Feleknas Uca.
• Turkish Parliament passes NGO law 

  The draft law on NGO regulation has been passed in the Turkish parliament. This marks the beginning of the planned dismantling of civil society.
• Young activists in Dortmund protest against the arrest of Güven 

  TCŞ and TEKO-JIN activists in Dortmund carried out an action against the dirty policies of the Turkish state towards political prisoners.
• Jinên Tirejen Roje Initiative claims actions against isolation 

  Jinên Tirejen Roje Initiative carried out different actions in many cities against the isolation imposed on Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan in Imrali.
• Terrorism list politically motivated, says lawyer Alistair Lyon 

  Lawyer Alastair Lyon said Absullah Ocalan is "clearly a man who can bring peace, yet it is astonishing the silence surrounding his situation, even at international level."
• Court rejects application for release of Demirtaş 

  A court in Ankara has rejected the application for release from prison of former HDP leader Selahattin Demirtaş, citing the lack of a translation of the written ECtHR ruling into Turkish.
• HDP report says 20 million people live under poverty line 

  The HDP Economy Commission's report revealed that 60 percent of the workforce earn the minimum wage or less in Turkey. "At least 20 million people live under the poverty line,"
• KCDK-E: Turkish state resumes attacks on Christmas Day 

  The KCDK-E Co-Presidency Council celebrated Christmas and said that the Turkish state continued its attacks on Christmas Day.
• Three people jailed in Adana 

  Three people taken into custody in an Adana-based operation were jailed today.
• Pepe Mujica expresses solidarity with Catalan prisoners 

  Uruguay's ex-President of Uruguay Jose Mujica expressed his solidarity with the Catalan pro-independence activists who are imprisoned in Barcelona.
• HDP Ağrı co-chair Akar detained 

  HDP Ağrı Provincial co-chair Cemal Akar was detained in a house raid on Thursday.
• Peace in Kurdistan writes to UK Foreign Minister about Güven 

  Peace in Kurdistan Campaign sent an open letter to Rt. Hon. Dominic Raab MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on the jailing of DTK co-chair and former HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven.
• PCF calls for release of political prisoners in Turkey 

  The Communist Party of France (PCF) said that the prison sentence handed out to DTK co-chair Leyla Güven is unacceptable.
• EH Bildu: Arrest of Leyla Güven is a new attack on Kurds 

  Basque left coalition EH Bildu saw the detention of Leyla Güven has an attack on Kurds and demanded Turkey "to cease all these attacks and comply with the European convention of Human Rights and free Demirtas."
• Güven's lawyer says the government is committing a crime 

  Leyla Güven’s lawyer, Serdar Çelebi, said that in fact who committed a crime is the AKP-MHP government. "Personal and discretional rules are actually applied. We are concerned about Leyla Güven's health problems."
• PACE rapporteurs urge Turkey to release Demirtaş 

  Selahattin Demirtaş must be released now, said PACE rapporteurs and urged the Turkish authorities to implement the final judgment of the European Court of Human Rights.
• HDP calls for the release of Demirtaş and all jailed politicians 

  Demirtaş and all politicians who have been taken hostages must immediately be released, says the HDP.
• HRW calls for the immediate release of Demirtaş 

  “The Turkish government must act without delay and cannot disregard this judgment with specious arguments that it doesn’t apply to Demirtaş’ current detention,” said the Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
• FEDA: Arrest of Leyla Güven is an intimidation effort 

  The arrest of DTK co-chair and Hakkari Deputy Leyla Güven means an intimidation, said FEDA.
• Leyla Güven transferred to Elazığ 

  Kurdish politician Leyla Güven has been transferred to a prison in Elazığ. For several hours her whereabouts were unknown, lawyers received no information about the transfer.
• AKP/MHP lobbyist caught with 100 kilograms of heroin at EU border 

  Veysel Filiz, AKP/MHP lobbyist and press officer of the Turkish Embassy in Brussels, expelled for espionage, has been arrested upon entering the EU with a hundred kilograms of heroin in his luggage.
• Hunger strike in prisons on day 27 

  The hunger strike launched by prisoners to end the isolation of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and violations in prisons entered its 27th day.
• Sinn Féin MLA Anderson calls for the release of Leyla Güven 

  Leyla Güven should be released immediately along with Abdullah Öcalan to assist the peace process in the region, said Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson.
• KCDK-E: Expose the fascist Turkish regime wherever you are 

  KCDK-E stated that the women's freedom line and the freedom struggle are taken prisoner in the person of Leyla Güven.