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Turkey: All Diyarbakir Child Prisoners
Released
2.6.2006
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The number of Kurdish
children released in Diyarbakir since May 8 reached
40 this week with 15 more minors set free and no
child prisoners left for alleged involvement in
Diyarbakir incidents. Lawyer Analay says "Solution
is acquitting the children".
BIA (Diyarbakir) Kurdistan-Turkey,- - With
the release this Wednesday of 15 children from
Diyarbakir prison there are no minor offenders
remaining in prison in the city in relation to the
wave of violence that swept through the province at
the end of April.
A total of 40 children who were arrested and placed
into a special annex building at Diyarbakir prison
in relation to the 28 March-1 April incidents have
been released from captivity since May 8. During the
incidents where five children were killed when
police opened fire on protestors, 213 minors were
initially detained, 94 of them were then arrested. A
majority of the children were subjected to torture
and mistreatment under custody.
Release is not a solution
Cengiz Analay, a lawyer for the children, told
Bianet that releasing the minors where they still
had to face prosecution was not a solution and added
"an acquittal decision needs to be taken for the
children". If found guilty, the children still face
up to 24 years imprisonment.
This Wednesday's hearing was monitored by The
Initiative to End All Forms of Violence Against
Children representatives Ezgi Koman and Emrah
Kırımsoy,
In a statement after the hearing, the Initiative
stressed that the children had been held in prison
for 62 days in violation of their rights to life,
development, protection and participation, with
total disregard of their interests.
"To put children who have no relation to the
incidents and who are not able to comprehend the
meaning or consequences of their actions on trial is
in violation of various international conventions
including the United Nations Convention on Children
Rights, the principle of a state of law and the
judicial system for children" the statement said.
The Initiative recalled that the public case
launched against the children demanded up to 24
years imprisonment for each of the minors on charged
of damaging public property, violating law number
2911 and membership to an illegal organisation.
It stressed that allegations which could lead to
heavy penalties for the children could impose
negative examples to the judicial system which
itself was a part of the system of protecting minors
and said that the children concerned should be given
the opportunity to use every right the system
offered them and be subject to a decision that would
support and protect them.
The statement invited everyone to reject violence of
all forms against children whatever its source and
urged for strategies that will prevent children from
facing conditions of violence and conflict and
suffer damages from these.
Bianet org
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