Three Highs School Children In Custody For Protesting The Adana Governor

The eight students who are members of the High School Young Hope organization have been taken into custody for protesting Adana Governor İlhan Atış for his threats against the families of the children who participate in the activities against the state. The governor had threatened the families with canceling their green cards that enable them to receive inexpensive medical treatment.

While five of the children taken into custody after the press release were taken to the Juvenile Branch, the other three are still in the police station.

The High School Young Hope members are planning to hold a press release to protest their friends’ haven been taken into custody.

They had held a press release on November 15 against Governor Atış titled “We are not like Erdoğan and Gül, but Mahir and Deniz”, meaning that they are not like the government, but the revolutionaries of the 70s.

According to sendika.org, the next day the eight students were surrounded by the police cars while strolling and taken into custody.

The children were questioned in the police station they were taken to in connection with the charges of painting slogans by the officers of the anti-terror unit. Since five of the children were younger than eighteen, the officers took them to the Juvenile Branch.

The five children were released later, but the other three are still in the police station to meet with the prosecutor.

Prof. Dr. Gençay Gürsoy, head of the Turkish Doctors Association (TTB), had told bianet that the words of the Adana Governor were clear threats and canceling the green cars of the families would be discrimination. (BÇ/TB)