The third hearing of the socialists who had been arrested during the raids on September 21 and later imprisoned took place on December 6 at the 9th Heavy Penalty Court, Istanbul.
While entering the court building, the 5 detained socialists shouted the slogans "Long live the people's brotherhood!". During the trial, the prisoners exposed the untruth and the conspiracy-based character of the proofs that had been prepared to charge them.
The file of the socialists imprisoned for 14 months contains many different contradictive documents.
On September 21, 2006 almost 50 offices of organisations and institutions had been raided in dozens of cities, among them the Socialist Platform of the Oppressed ( ESP ), the newspaper Atilim, the radio channel Ozgur Radyo, the Labourer Women's Association ( EKD ), the Socialist Youth Association ( SGD ), the trade unions Limter-Is and Tekstil-Sen . More than 100 revolutionaries had been arrested and 43 out of them had been imprisoned. The wave of detention continued later on. While in Istanbul 12 of the 17 socialists who had been imprisoned after the raids were released so far in former hearings, Yusuf Demir, Yunus Aydemir, Erdal Demirhan, Ali Haydar Keles and
Günes Senyuz were decided to continue to be imprisoned.
At the hearing on December 6, Gunes Senyuz was decided to be released and the other 4 prisoners to remain behind bars. The date for the next hearing was set for April 3, 2008.
The ESP organised an action in front of Besiktas Court where the trial was taking place and opened the banner read "We want freedom and justice". In a press statement the activists demanded the release of the socialist prisoners and said the following: "The trial has been turned into a means to ask for political vengeance without taking into consideration the minimum proofs demanded by the legal system. Not justice but only mechanism of the official ideology can work in a legal system that approves the fictional and deliberate claims of the police reports.
The ESP activists shouted the slogans "We want freedom of speech, action and organisation", "The conspiracies did not work out, they will not work out ".