Zeynel Abidin Bulut, one of the editors of the Kurdish daily Azadiya Welat was travelling in a car in Amed's Dağkapı area when police stopped the car and performed ID check at around 23:30 last night.

Bulut was referred to Courthouse on the grounds that the prison sentence he had been given within the scope of a lawsuit opened against him was approved by the Supreme Court.

Bulut was later remanded in custody and sent to Diyarbakır D Type Closed Prison.