16 y.o. Released After Arrested For “Insulting the President”
Konya 1st Peace Court Judge Authorities ordered the release of M.E.A., a 16 y.o. who was arrested on Wednesday for charges related to insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
While his attorney appealed to the arrest yesterday, the court said that it would declare its decision today.
On Wednesday, a 16 year old child has been arrested for charges related to “insulting the president” in the central province of Konya. He was on the 11th grade.
The boy has been detained after making a press statement to commemorate the death of Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay - a Turkish teacher and a Lieutenant killed by a group of extremist in 1930 and considered a "Martyr of the Turkish Revolution”.
“As a last word, progressivist high school students say that we don’t see Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as the president of this country but the head of theft, bribery and corruption as well as the owner of unlawfully-constructed [presidential] palace [in Ankara],” the boy reportedly said in the press statement. (AS/BM)
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