Story of a ‘stone throwing terrorist’
Story of a ‘stone throwing terrorist’
Hundreds of Kurdish children and teenagers are imprisoned in Turkey. They are being charged with terror crimes on account of throwing stones to the police. While some of these ‘stone terrorists’ are held with adults some of them are suffering various diseases.
Epileptic Enes Baran was 16 when he was imprisoned for throwing stones to the police. His mother Valide Baran describes him as a good son and a good student at school.
Enes was arrested on the third day of eid el-adha in 2009 after he left his house to visit some relatives. The family was not allowed to see him until next day evening despite the fact hat he was underage.
Valide Baran says his son was beaten up for 8 hours at his first night in the prison. She says Enes was epileptic two years ago but it was gone until that night and Enes is fainting often since then.
The mother who is also cardiac also protested the treatment her son was subjected to and slept in front of the Diyarbakir prison for 15 days. But she could not help her son behind the high walls of the notorious Diyarbakir prison.
Enes was sent to Elazýð prison because ‘he attempted a rebellion in prison’ by complaining about the prison conditions. Moreover, he was given 14-day solitary confinement punishment when he refused to stay with non-political prisoners upon his arrival in Elazýð prison.
The mother Valide Baran says that while she cannot afford the fare to go to Elazýð every week the prison administration is asking her to pay for travel costs for Enes to be taken before the Diyarbakir Court. Ene has already missed a couple hearing because the family could not afford the costs. The mother says she finds it hard to understand that the state can afford a prison but not travel costs of a prisoner while they are accessing justice.
Valide Baran says her son should be at school not in a prison. She also calls the Turkish PM Erdogan to solve the Kurdish conflict by recognising more right to the Kurds rather that putting Kurdish children in prison.
Epileptic Enes Baran was 16 when he was imprisoned for throwing stones to the police. His mother Valide Baran describes him as a good son and a good student at school.
Enes was arrested on the third day of eid el-adha in 2009 after he left his house to visit some relatives. The family was not allowed to see him until next day evening despite the fact hat he was underage.
Valide Baran says his son was beaten up for 8 hours at his first night in the prison. She says Enes was epileptic two years ago but it was gone until that night and Enes is fainting often since then.
The mother who is also cardiac also protested the treatment her son was subjected to and slept in front of the Diyarbakir prison for 15 days. But she could not help her son behind the high walls of the notorious Diyarbakir prison.
Enes was sent to Elazýð prison because ‘he attempted a rebellion in prison’ by complaining about the prison conditions. Moreover, he was given 14-day solitary confinement punishment when he refused to stay with non-political prisoners upon his arrival in Elazýð prison.
The mother Valide Baran says that while she cannot afford the fare to go to Elazýð every week the prison administration is asking her to pay for travel costs for Enes to be taken before the Diyarbakir Court. Ene has already missed a couple hearing because the family could not afford the costs. The mother says she finds it hard to understand that the state can afford a prison but not travel costs of a prisoner while they are accessing justice.
Valide Baran says her son should be at school not in a prison. She also calls the Turkish PM Erdogan to solve the Kurdish conflict by recognising more right to the Kurds rather that putting Kurdish children in prison.
