JINHA

AMED - Berjin Demirkaya, a woman's movement activist, was arrested yesterday in the largely Kurdish city of Diyarbakır, Turkey.

Berjin was on her way to a prison visit with her niece, Merge Polat, at the Diyarbakır E-Type Prison. She had traveled from the city of Cizre, several hours away, where she is active in the Kurdish women's movement organization Congress of Free Women (KJA). However, when she arrived at the prison, she was arrested for reasons still unknown.

Berjin had been arrested while going to prison visits in the past.

(ma/gc/mg/cm)