NEWS CENTER - The hunger strike launched by Mazlum Dağ and Abdurrahman Er, who are being held in Hewler Prison, has been going on for 53 days.

 

Mazlum Dağ and Abdurrahman Er, who were arrested in the Federated Kurdistan Region in 2019, have been on a hunger strike for 53 days against rights violations in Hewler Prison, where they are held, on May 18. Dağ and Er demand an end to arbitrary searches, physical violence, insults and the imposition of uniform dress.

 

In a phone call with his family on June 23, Dağ stated that their health condition was bad, there was no doctor and medicine in the hospital, no one had visited them for 10 days, and that Er had lost 20 kilograms and he had lost 10 kilograms.

 

The families of both prisoners condemned the increasing pressure on their children and called for "protection" of their children.

 

ALLEGED ATTACK

 

Dağ and Er were arrested in the Federated Kurdistan Region on July 17, 2019 for allegedly attacking Turkish diplomat Osman Köse and Iraqi citizens Neriman Osman and Beşdar Ramazan at the Turkish Consulate General in Hewler. It was stated that Dağ and Er had no direct relationship with the attack and that they did not take part in the attack in the statement of the KCK Executive Council Co-presidency published on the Fırat News Agency (ANF) on July 6.