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Bervian Ismael from Kongreya Star
WOMEN worldwide were urged by the Kongreya Star organisation today to support the resistance inside Turkish jails, as a rolling hunger-strike campaign entered its 27th day
Kongreya Star, a confederation of women’s organisations based in the Kurdish enclave known as Rojava in northern Syria, said that more must be done to support political prisoners refusing food.
Spokeswoman Berivan Ismael argued that the involvement of women was particularly important in pressing the hunger strikers’ demands for the release of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan.
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
As Palestine Action prisoners go weeks without food, alleging dangerous neglect and detention without trial, campaigners warn that a near-total media blackout is hiding a crisis that could turn fatal – and fuel a growing wave of public anger. ELIZABETH SHORT reports
