87 out of the 154 members of HOC (Front for Rights and Freedoms) have been detained after they had been arrested on July 16 by a brutal police attack on the action "Elections are no solution. Join the struggle for an independent Turkey" in Ankara. 27 of the arrested were released by the public prosecution as they were under 18 and the other 127 revolutionaries were taken to court. At the trial, which lasted far into the night, 87 members of HOC were decided to be detained because of "resisting police officers", the "violation of the meeting and demonstration law no. 2911" and "damage to state property". It was visible that many of the arrested and detained had been tortured and punched. Those HOC-members released stated that they had been tortured inside the police busses after being arrested and that their relatives who wanted to visit them were harassed by the police. Besides, the arrested women had been abused.
On July 20, HOC organized an action on Besiktas Square to condemn the detentions. At the action, the activists opened a banner saying "We shouldn't expect anything from the rotten and degenerated adjucation!" and shouted the slogans "We shouldn't expect anything from the gangs of adjucation" and "We demand justice". During the last days it was discovered that judge Ali Kayaoglu, former assistant secretary of the Court of Appeals Ercan Yalcinkaya and three public prosecutors` had relations with drug gangs. Ali Kayaoglu, judge of the 14th Heavy Penalty Court, was among those who had given the juridical decision on the attacks in last September on our party and other revolutionary socialist organisations.