Boğaziçi students gather at courthouse: You can't try the rainbow!

Students of Boğaziçi University gathered in front of Istanbul's Çağlayan Courthouse on June 3 to support their friends who were placed on the stand for displaying the rainbow flag during protests against the president's appointment of a party member as rector to their school. "You can't put the rainbow on trial," the students said in a tweet from the Boğaziçi Resistance account.

Duvar English - Students of Istanbul's Boğaziçi University gathered outside the Çağlayan Courthouse on June 3 to show support to their friends facing trial for displaying the rainbow Pride flag during protests in the school.

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The Pride flag was at the center of controversy during protests against the president's appointment of a party member as a rector to the school, as students were accused of insulting religion because of an artwork showing the rainbow flag at a Muslim holy site.

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"Our existence can't be banned, the rainbow can't be put on trial," the students chanted outside of the courthouse on July 3 as their friends faced the courts for displaying the rainbow flag.

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The court postponed the students' trial to June 28, lifted their probation but left in place an international travel ban against the students.

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