Istanbul, 1 Dec. (AKI) - A prosecutor in southern Turkey on Monday charged six children for attacking police with stones in a recent street protest in support of Kurdish separatists. According to the news site of Hurriyet, the stone-throwing youths face up to 58 years in prison if they are convicted.

Six youths, aged from 13 to 16, are alleged to have participated in street demonstrations in the southern province of Adana in which nearly 100 protesters clashed with Turkish security forces in November.

The protesters claimed that Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), was being mistreated in Imrali prison where he is serving a life sentence.

All six are charged with committing a crime on behalf of the terror organisation PKK.

In a similar incident earlier this month, a prosecutor in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir charged six children with attacking police with stones and Molotov cocktails, after they participated in street protests during Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's recent visit.

They are facing 23 years in prison if they are convicted.

The PKK's goal is to create an independent, socialist Kurdish state in Kurdistan, a region that comprises parts of Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran. The organisation is considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the US, and the European Union.

NCRI – On Sunday, students gathered outside administration office of Tehran's Polytechnic (Amirkabir) University protesting to reckless handling of a fellow classmate's falling from a three story building.

Said Arablou, an electrical engineering student fell from third floor of a school building and nearly lost both his legs.

Participants called for the resignation of Farahani, Dean of Student Affairs, for spending his entire budget on restrictive measures against the students such as close circuit cameras. The instruments are installed to keep an eye on the students' every move on campus. 

In the run-up to December 6, the Student Day, most students in major Iranian schools are preparing for traditional anti-government demonstrations. Polytechnic University has been the focal point of such student protests since their famous move of burning Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's pictures before his eyes when he was speaking at the school in December 2006.

Following the move, most of the school's students have been summoned to the so-called "disciplinary committee."  Many were suspended from following academic semesters despite Ahmadinejad's hollow show of tolerance for students' critical views of the mullahs' regime.