The event degenerated into violence and Turkish security forces arrested several demonstrators, including the author, who were held in detention for seven months awaiting trial.

Barry could continue a good schooling in Indonesia in the physical and emotional company of the authors (who were born, raised and lived most of their lives there) and other close relatives; alternatively, if he chooses, as an Australian citizen he would also be entitled to complete his high schooling and tertiary education in Australia.

The Committee notes with concern that all the applications of both authors, who were abandoned by their fathers at an early age and have been raised exclusively by their mothers and have used their mothers' family name, were rejected on the ground that their reasons for the change of name were of an "emotional nature" and therefore did not constitute a lawful interest within the meaning of article 61-1 of the Civil Code.