STUC supports Kurdish hunger strikers – report/press release
From the beginning, and the mention of Welsh Kurdish hunger striker Imam Sis in
Lynn Henderson’s presidential opening speech, the Kurds featured prominently at
this week’s Scottish Trade Union Congress.
An emergency motion, brought by Aberdeen Trades Council, whose secretary, Fiona
Napier, has visited the Kurdish hunger strikers in Strasbourg, mandated the STUC
General Council to show concrete support for the hunger strikers, and their demand
that Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan be allowed his basic human right to visits by
his family and his lawyer, by writing to the Council of Europe (of which Turkey is a
member), the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, and the UK foreign
Minister, as well as informing trade unionists about the hunger strike and
encouraging supportive actions. Continue reading “STUC supports Kurdish hunger strikers – report/press release”