Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Amed provincial co-chair Zübeyde Zümrüt was released after being detained at the police station on Wednesday.

Zümrüt had gone to Diyarbakır Courthouse in the afternoon in the scope of an investigation led by the public prosecutor of Diyarbakır. She was told there that she would bear testimony to police and that she needed to go to police directorate.

After being detained at the police station in Sur district, Zümrüt was taken to Diyarbakır state hospital for health control. She was released following an interrogation by the prosecutor.

Zümrüt was reportedly detained because of a speech she made at an event in solidarity with the mass hunger strike by PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) and PAJK (Kurdistan Women’s Liberation Party) prisoners in Turkish jails in October of 2012.

Her detention reportedly took place upon the prosecutor's order for Zümrüt's referral to court to bear testimony on the very spot she is seen.