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Back to homepageLawyers visited Leyla Güven to convey Öcalan’s message to the hunger strikers
Öcalan’s lawyers have visited DTK Co-chair and HDP MP Leyla Güven who has been on an indefinite hunger strike for 198 days demanding the end of the isolation regime executed against Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan
Read MoreAsesinato del líder indígena Sergio Rojas en Costa Rica: carta de órganos de Naciones Unidas hecha pública
El asesinato de Sergio Rojas viene a interpelar a las autoridades costarricenses dadas las diversas advertencias hechas por un sinnúmero de organizaciones sociales y de derechos humanos en los últimos años
Read MoreWhy are Colombian indigenous peoples protesting against President Ivan Duque?
Indigenous people are leading a mass movement in Colombia
Read MoreDareen Tatour’s Appeal Partially Accepted: Poem Is Not a Crime
An update on the ongoing struggle of Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour by Marcia Lynx Qualey of Arabit.org
Read MoreIran – Protest amid Darkness
This week saw more confrontation in Iran when students in Tehran organized a protest against the regime’s insistence that women wear mandatory headscarves in public
Read MoreLawyers respond to Ban on visits with Ocalan Lifted
On 16 May 2019, the Minister of Justice of Turkey Abdulhamit Gül made a statement declaring that the ban on lawyers being allowed to visit with their client Mr. Abdullah Öcalan has been lifted
Read MoreRemembering the Nakba – building Democratic Confederalism
On the 15th May 2019 we write to remember the struggle in Palestine and to call for building democratic confederalism all over the Middle East
Read MoreArundhati Roy: A U.S. Attack on Iran Would Be “Biggest Mistake It Has Ever Made”
“Over these last few years, given the wars it has waged, and the international treaties it has arbitrarily reneged on, the U.S. Government perfectly fits its own definition of a rogue state”
Read MoreCuba says Trump’s claim that it controls Venezuela is a lie
Cuba’s government has hit back at President Donald Trump’s latest threat to implement a “full and complete” blockade after accusing the Caribbean island of “controlling Venezuela
Read MoreGrupo Internacional de Contacto: Declaración de San José sobre Venezuela
El pasado 7 de mayo, el Grupo Internacional de Contacto (GIC) se reunió en la capital costarricense: se trata de una iniciativa diplomática liderada por la Unión Europea (UE) y 8 de sus integrantes, lanzada en enero del 2019
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