NEWS CENTER - The 44th group took over the hunger strike action launched by the prisoners against the isolation and increasing rights violations.

 

The 44th group took over the indefinite-alternating hunger strike launched by Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) and Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) prisoners on November 27, 2020, demanding the end of the isolation on PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and an end to the increasing violations of rights in prisons.

 

The action continues on its 216th day.

 

On the other hand, members of the Batman Peace Mothers Council stated that the isolation has affected the entire society, and evaluated the isolation on Abdullah Öcalan as "cruelty and unscrupulousness". The mothers demanded that the isolation be lifted as soon as possible.