Yüksek had been taken into custody on May 10, while leaving the Central Office Consultancy bureau in Diyarbakır and was arrested on May 13 on charge of “being a member of a terrorist organization".
Yüksek, 10 Mayıs 2016’da gözaltına alınmış, 13 Mayıs’ta “örgüt üyeliği” iddiasıyla tutuklanmıştı.