Event: Our Mother's Day protest outside Turkish Embassy in London

• Free Berivan Campaign Committee

• 03/03/2010 

On 8 October 2009, the Turkish Government sentenced a young 15 year old girl, Berivan Sayaca to 13 years imprisonment which was reduced to 8 years.

She was picked up randomly on a demonstration in Batman that she was not even attending and had been travelling to her family home.

The Turkish police tortured her and wrapped a 'Palestinian scarf' around her head and took photographs of her.

She has written a letter from prison which you can find on our facebook campaign group pages.

In the letter she writes:

“This place is such a difficult place, even if tried to explain how much I can’t explain how much. I want to be out playing with my friends. Every time the door opens here I hope for a letter or for them to take me out of here. I have never in my whole life stayed away from my family and that’s why I feel really scared here.

I miss my family so much.”

Berivan Sayaca aged 15 Diyarbakir Prison.

The Guardian published her story on 1st Feb 2010 and since then a campaign has been started to try to secure her release.

The are over 2,600 Kurdish children in Turkish jails and Turkey is in breach of the UN Convention of the Rights of Children by treating them like adults.

Join Our Mother's Day Protest Outside Turkish Embassy in London.

Mother's Day Protest outside Turkish Embassy in London.

On behalf of Berivan's Mother and all Mother's of Kurdish Children in Turkish Jails we are going to protest near to Mother's Day outside the Turkish Embassy in London.

We are going to hand in petitions and letters calling for the urgent immiediate humanitarian release of Berivan and All Kurdish Children in Turkish Jails!!

Please join and help to build this demo if you are in London and please organise your own demo in your own country outside the Turkish Embassy to call for the release of Berivan and all Kurdish Children in Turkish Jails!

London Demo:

Friday 12th March 2010

assemble 1430-1600

Outside Turkish Embassy

43 Belgrave Square

London SW1X 8PA (nearest tube Hyde Park Corner)

12th March. 1430-1600.

Please make home made placards and invite friends.

Free Berivan Campaign Committee

• Free Berivan Campaign Committee