Action against February 15 conspiracy in Paris

Under the auspices of the Democratic Kurdish Community Centre in Paris, activists projected a biography of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan and information on the February 15 international conspiracy onto the walls in the busiest places in Paris.

The action which started on February 1 will continue in the busiest streets of Paris until Friday, February 5th.

PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan has been held in a high-security prison on Imrali Island since he was abducted from the Greek embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, in February 1999. For eleven years, the now 72-year-old was the only prisoner – guarded by more than a thousand soldiers. For eight years, he was not allowed to see his legal counsel. The leader of the Kurdish liberation movement thus holds the “European record” for imprisonment without access to lawyers.

The last contact with Öcalan was a telephone conversation with his brother on March 25, which was interrupted after a few minutes. He last had contact with his legal counsel from the Istanbul-based Asrin law office in 2019. After eight years of interruption, a hunger strike led by Leyla Güven pushed through a first visit on May 2. This was followed by lawyer visits to Imrali on May 22, June 12, June 18 and most recently on August 7, 2019, with the last family visit to the island on March 3, 2020.

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