Diyarbakir- Northern Kurdistan: Due to ill-treatments and in protest to their arbitrarily detention the Kurdish children imprisoned in Diyarbakir Prison revolted on Monday 3th April.
Due to the arbitrary arrests and the oppressions that Kurdish minors receive under the Turkish rule and because the prison officials of Diyarbakir do not allow the medical treatment of the ill prisoners, the Kurdish children imprisoned in Diyarbakir Prison revolted.
The report said that the family of the minors gathered after they were informed about the unrest.
Following the initial comment of Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that ‘’whether men, women or children, the security forces will react with disproportionate force’’, several amendments were made to the country’s anti-terror law, it is possible to charges children as terrorists and put them away for up to 50 years in jail. There are currently 2,622 minors serving time in Turkish prisons on the charge of terrorism.
In 23 of April 2009, an anti-terror police attacked and beat one of our children to death, the policeman was not punished:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEMuwkETXuU
In 2008, a policeman broke the arm of a Kurdish child in front of the cameras during the Kurdish festival Newroz:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT9Gk3tkGsk