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AMED –Medica lstudent Esra Yakar, who has beenarrestedandinvestigated by theTurkish go vernment for performing volunteer medical service in Kobanê, has been released fromcus tody. Esra had returned toTurkey for treatmentfor her own wounds when she was arrested.

Fifth-year Dicle University medical student Esra Yakar traveledto Kobanê tovolunteer as a medictreatin gcivilian sand YPG/YPJ members. ShewaswoundedandtraveledtoTurkeyformedicaltreatment, whereuponshewasarrested. Esra wastransportedfromthe Ankara-Sincan Prisonto Diyarbakır (Kurdish name Amed) for a hearing at the Diyarbakır 4^thHeavy Penal Court yesterday.

Medica lstudents and advocatesforsick prisonersad vocated widely for Esra'srelease, saying her detentionwas not only an attack on KobanêandtheKurdishpeaceprocess, but a violation of internationallawsonthetreatment of sickandwoundedprisoners.

(fk/cm)