URFA, — Eight Kurdish child prisoners insisted on hunger strike that began on Tuesday in Urfa’s E-Type Prison. They are demanding to be transferred to the political prisoners’ section from the non-political prisoners’ section, where they are currently held.
The children’s lawyer Bekir Benek who met with them explained their other demands, as follows; All kind of oppressions of prison’s administration on child prisoners have to be ended; giving back their belongings, including their watches; allowing to have television; no handcuff during transfers to courts for hearings.
It is expected that a delegation from the Human Rights Association (IHD) and Bar Association’s Urfa Branches will visit the prison to investigate the children’s allegations.
According to the Urfa Governor’s press release, the children are currently on trial for “being members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)” and they wanted to stay with other adult prisoners who are also on trial for “being PKK members.”