Husniye Olmez, Sabahattin Acar and Tahir Elci were formally arrested and committed to Diyarbakir Prison on 11 December 1993. Imam and Arzu Sahin remained in incommunicado detention; the other 11 laywers were released. Meral Danis Bestas gave a statement describing her torture in police detention, which is reproduced here.
