.AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT
"From a friend, a Public Statement from Amnesty International:
Turkey: Three children on trial in case over freedom of expression
June 18, 2008 - Amnesty International Public Statement
Tomorrow, 19 June, three boys, aged 15, 15 and 17 at the time that the alleged offence was committed, will go on trial in Diyarbakır in the south east of Turkey accused of violating Article 7/2 of the anti-terror law that criminalizes "making propaganda for a terrorist organisation or its aims". The article carries a maximum sentence of five years' imprisonment.
The prosecution was brought after the children, who are all members of the Diyarbakır Yenişehir Municipality Children's Choir, sang a Kurdish language anthem Ey Raqip (Hey Enemy) at a world music festival in San Francisco in October 2007. The choir sang songs in a total of nine different languages including a Turkish patriotic song (Çanakkale Marşı). Six other members of the choir who are under 15 years of age are being prosecuted for the same offence at a Children's Court."
Rasti
Un Fucking believable, you almost think it can't be true, amnesty must be lying, how could someone be prosecuted under terror laws for singing a song in SF??
You would think the parents would have been more scared of sending a "boys choirs" off to SF, than any fear they produce for the state.
Turkey: Three children on trial in case over freedom of expression
June 18, 2008 - Amnesty International Public Statement
Tomorrow, 19 June, three boys, aged 15, 15 and 17 at the time that the alleged offence was committed, will go on trial in Diyarbakır in the south east of Turkey accused of violating Article 7/2 of the anti-terror law that criminalizes "making propaganda for a terrorist organisation or its aims". The article carries a maximum sentence of five years' imprisonment.
The prosecution was brought after the children, who are all members of the Diyarbakır Yenişehir Municipality Children's Choir, sang a Kurdish language anthem Ey Raqip (Hey Enemy) at a world music festival in San Francisco in October 2007. The choir sang songs in a total of nine different languages including a Turkish patriotic song (Çanakkale Marşı). Six other members of the choir who are under 15 years of age are being prosecuted for the same offence at a Children's Court."
Rasti
Un Fucking believable, you almost think it can't be true, amnesty must be lying, how could someone be prosecuted under terror laws for singing a song in SF??
You would think the parents would have been more scared of sending a "boys choirs" off to SF, than any fear they produce for the state.
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