British police attacked the activists carrying out a civil disobedience action in the premises of Amnesty International in London to protest the isolation on Öcalan and detained 20 activists.

The police has taken into custody 20 activists protesting at the premises of Amnesty International. The protest was in solidarity with the hunger strike resistance demanding the end of isolation against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.

The protest action organized jointly by the Roj Women's Assembly, the Union of Socialist Women, the Cultural Association of Migrant Workers (Gik-Der) and the Kurdish People's Assembly began on Wednesday when a group of activists entered Amnesty International's premises.

Meetings with Amnesty International executives gave no results.

Kurdish activists accused Amnesty International of hypocrisy after the organisation called the police to clear its London HQ that had been occupied by Kurds.

The group of activists were on their third day of action in the charity's office when the organisation called the police. They were demanding that the human rights organisation "breaks its silence" over Turkey's abuses of prisoners.

A statement from the protesters says "If Amnesty's claims to support human rights are to be believed, then they need to listen to our demands and take urgent action without delay. It begs the question: Are Amnesty human rights defenders, or are they human rights abusers?"

The activists were demanding Amnesty International to:

"Call on the Turkish Government to respect the human rights of their citizens, especially prisoners, over 7000 of whom are now on hunger strike.

Call for an end to the isolation and solitary confinement of political prisoners including Abdullah Öcalan, which amounts to torture and a human rights violation under international law.

Make an urgent global appeal for action against the Turkish government regarding these matters."