5.  The applicants were born in 1969, 1976, 1982, 1981 and 1959 respectively. The first three applicants live in Ankara, whereas the fourth lives in Istanbul and the fifth in Aydın. 6.  On 28 April 2001 police officers from the Anti-Terrorism Department of the Ankara Security Directorate arrested the applicants Gülşen Arslan, Fadime Çelik and Derya Binay at their house. According to the arrest report, the police acted upon a complaint filed by the proprietor of the house, who suspected that the tenants were carrying out some illegal activities on her property. Subsequently, the police also searched the Tohum Cultural Centre and took Cennet Cabat and Tamiş Akpınar into custody. They seized, among other things, large amounts of bulletins, periodicals and leaflets which concerned propaganda against F-type prisons. 7.  On 29 April 2001, upon the request of the Ankara Security Directorate, the Public Prosecutor at the Ankara State Security Court agreed to extend the applicants’ detention in police custody until 1 May 2001. 8.  On 1 May 2001, upon the Public Prosecutor’s request, a judge at the Ankara State Security Court examined the case file and agreed to extend the applicants’ detention in police custody for three more days. 9.  On 4 May 2001 the applicants were first brought before the Public Prosecutor and then the investigating magistrate at the Ankara State Security Court, who ordered their detention on remand. 10.  On 1 June 2001 the Public Prosecutor filed an indictment against the applicants on account of aiding and abetting an illegal armed organisation, namely, the TKP/ML (the Turkish Communist Party/ Marxist Leninist). 11.  On 9 July 2002, during the first hearing held before the Ankara State Security Court the applicants were released pending trial. On 11 November 2002 the court acquitted the applicants.