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When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes a Duty: Jock Palfreeman’s Hunger Strike

Originally published by the Bulgarian web journal Terminal 3, this article came to us via the Bulgarian Prisoners’ Association. An update from the Bulgarian Prisoners’ Association on the sixteenth day of Jock Palfreeman’s hunger strike, May 6, 2019 (after the original article was written, in Bulgarian) as a protest against corruption and abuse of power […]

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Hunger for Justice: Nuriye Gülmen against the Turkish State (an Interview)

Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça surrounded by supporters during their vigil in downtown Ankara. Source: Onedio web portal.

Note from the LeftEast editors: In one of the most dramatic cases of resistance against the Turkish state’s massive purges of the educational sector, Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça have been on hunger strike for 110 days (as of Tuesday, June 27th), ingesting only small sugar cubes and drinking water and herbal tea. On the seventy-sixth […]