Radical Solidarity calls for participation to today’s march for activists jailed in the Netherlands

Activists Sinan E., Abdullah G., Serhat E., Hakan H. and Hugo G. have been imprisoned in the Netherlands for over a month. The public prosecutor alleged damage to public property, violence against the police, violation of the assembly law and trespassing in connection with a protest in front of the building of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague.

The background to the protest on 3 December is the demand for an independent investigation into Turkish use of chemical weapons in Kurdistan. The next hearing will be held on 23 February. Serhat E. is to be expelled to France because his asylum procedure is ongoing there.

On the occasion of the action week proclaimed by the anti-fascist movement Radical Solidarity in the Netherlands to support the four activists, a mobilization took place in Amsterdam ahead of today’s demonstration in The Hague. Members of the movement posted banners on various buildings and bridges in the center of the Dutch capital calling for the activists to be released and for an end to the chemical weapons attacks in Kurdistan.

“Radical Solidarity” supports the cause of the Kurdish youth movement and has announced days of action until 9 January to show solidarity and to create attention to the situation in Kurdistan.

The movement calls for participation in the demonstration to be held today in The Hague at 4.30 p.m. from Koekamp.

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