NEWS CENTER - The hunger strike launched against the aggravated isolation on PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and the increasing rights violations in prisons is on its 188th day.

 

The indefinite-alternating hunger strike launched by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) prisoners on November 27, 2020, demanding the end of the aggravated isolation on PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and an end to the increasing violations of rights in prisons continues. The action entered its 188th day with the 38th group.

 

Lawyer Destina Yıldız, from the Hunger Strike Monitoring Marmara Coordination, stated that the prisoners who went on hunger strike were given disciplinary punishments and that the prison guards provoked the prisoners. Destina also emphasized that the prisoners on strike in Kandıra Prison were forced to meet with a psychologist to end their protests.