Three-year-old kid of jailed woman activist sent to prison

Three-and-a-half-year-old Dilgeş Aslan is going to prison today. His mother, Gönül Aslan, is one of the persons arrested in Amed in the course of the investigation against Rosa women's association.

Three-and-a-half-year-old Dilgeş Aslan is going to prison today. His mother Gönül Aslan is one of the twelve Kurdish activists and politicians who were arrested last night as suspected members of a terrorist organisation in Amed (Diyarbakir) as part of the lawsuit against Rosa women's association.

Dilgeş spent the night in the Amed courthouse with HDP MPs Leyla Güven and Saliha Aydeniz in the hope that his mother would be released. Gönül Aslan sits for the HDP in Bağlar district council and is a member of the Rosa women's association, which campaigns against violence against women. She is the mother of three children, one of whom suffers from kidney disease. The father of the children is abroad.

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