4.  The applicant was born in 1973 and lives in Diyarbakır. 5.  On 20 July 1993 the applicant was arrested on suspicion of membership of an illegal organisation. On 2 August 1993 she was brought before the investigating judge, who ordered her detention on remand. 6.  On 11 August 1993 the public prosecutor at the Diyarbakır State Security Court filed an indictment with that court accusing the applicant, with several others, of membership of an illegal armed organisation and of praising the offenders. 7.  On 26 March 1996 the Diyarbakır State Security Court sentenced the applicant to six years and three months’ imprisonment for involvement in activities that undermined the constitutional order of the State. With the same judgment, the court released the applicant, taking into account the period she had spent in detention. 8.  On 25 December 1997 the Court of Cassation quashed the judgment of the first-instance court in respect of the applicant, finding that the court erred in the qualification of the offence. 9.  Following a constitutional amendment in 2004, State Security Courts were abolished and the applicant’s case was transferred to the Diyarbakır Assize Court. 10.  On 14 March 2006 the Diyarbakır Assize Court sentenced the applicant to six years and three months’ imprisonment for membership of an illegal armed organisation. The Court of Cassation upheld that judgment on 5 July 2007.