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.
EVİN HEBUN / AMED
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. Continue reading
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