You can sign a petition calling for Silhan Özçelik’s release here, and a petition calling for the decriminalisation of the PKK here
But Özçelik’s conviction should also raise a more fundamental concern: that the contradictions and complications that we are so used to associating with the Middle East lie at the heart of British and western policy as well. If the British state persecutes, rather than supports, the few secular and progressive organisations in the region who are fighting Isis, whose interests is it really serving? And if we don’t trust those interests, how much trust can we really place in it to act on our behalf in Syria?
Source: Meet the remarkable British woman imprisoned for fighting against Isis.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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