ODTÜ students were arrested for insults

Four students were arrested for "insulting the president". The Technical University of Orta (METU) knows the atmosphere of protest and detention after the graduation ceremony. After the protesters who lived during the graduation ceremony, five students were arrested in police raids, including the ODTÜ (ÖTK) and Ozgur Gür ODTÜ LGBTİ Dayanışması student council president.

Four people were arrested last night for "insulting the president" by a court sentenced three days ago, three students carrying banners bearing the drawing "Tayypler Alemi" on the cover of the magazine Penguin and a student bringing the banner on campus. He was released when he was in possession of a printed press in detention.

Gür, a student of the biology department of METU, released the day before yesterday, said that "Birşen Kök ODTÜ can not be rector" and "Not a group of students" We are here with the LGBT +, and we are here to live confidently in the streets, in the streets, with the slogans "pankarları" and "resignation of the rector."

During the interrogation, Gur said that students in Private security intervened during the end-of-studies demonstration: "The three students were questioned on the question of whether they were interested in the banner." There were students who were prepared on the list of custody, "he said Özgür Gür thinks the residents are used for preparatory purposes before the intervention of ODTÜ.

The ODTÜ Alumni Association declared that & # 39; After the prisoners, the universities were scientific nests where Free ideas were expressed and expressed: "Our friends who use freedom of expression should be released immediately," Gür said. . It is obvious that ODTÜ can not be dominated by the most basic human rights, the right to criticize and the freedom of expression. "

In response to the call for the release of their detained friends, the force of aggression from the school entered the school to intervene in protests against the camp the eve. "In the ODTÜ and in the country, academicians who intervened in the negotiation and negotiation of the banners of the students who opened the banner could not meet" the one man " . According to information received, the Chairman of the Higher Council of Higher Education, Mustafa Vilsan Kök

addressing to DW Turkish, the vice president of the lawyer of the Ankara Bar Association, Erinç Sağkan, said that the plaintiff, who had a banner in more than four students, was also taken into custody. he said. He added that the prosecutor's office had expanded the investigation and said it was asked if the students were involved in a terrorist organization. Vice President Sağkan said: "There is an assertion that there is an insult in the forbidden cargo, there is no evidence to collect, there is no doubt, no escape, even three days of detention intimidate the public. "Notice that caricature is a crime" It is not possible to be punished for this banner, "he said .

The equipment of the media group was confiscated

On the day of graduation, the group ODTÜ Media, with the permission of the rector, confiscated his material on the grounds that he "put ODTÜ in a humiliating position". Following the meeting with the Rector Consultant, the activities of METU Media Group were suspended and all the equipment in our possession was confiscated. In this process, my friends in the community have not personally started an investigation. "A student from the collective who did not want to give a name to DW Turkish said:" We only thought about the events and we said "We are bad with our equipment", but we have no effort to create perceptions.

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