5.  The applicant was born in 1983 and lives in Tunceli. 6.  On 5 April 2007 the applicant attended a concert performed by a band called “Grup Yorum” in the Hozat district of Tunceli. 7.  On 17 October 2007 the Malatya public prosecutor filed an indictment with the Malatya Assize Court, charging the applicant with disseminating propaganda in favour of the DHKP/C (Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front), an illegal armed organisation, under section 7 (2) of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (Law no. 3713). The public prosecutor noted that the applicant had chanted the following slogans during the concert: “Mahir, Hüseyin, Ulaş; Fight until emancipation”[1] (“Mahir, Hüseyin, Ulaş; Kurtuluşa kadar savaş”); “Martyrs of the revolution are immortal” (“Devrim şehitleri ölümsüzdür”); “Revolutionary prisoners are our honour” (“Devrimci tutsaklar onurumuzdur”); and “Victory on mountains, emancipation at the front; long live victory, long live resistance” (“Dağlarda zafer, cephede kurtuluş; yaşasın zafer, yaşasın direniş”). 8.  During the investigation and the proceedings against him, the applicant stated that he had attended the concert in question and chanted the slogans “Music shall not stop, dance shall continue” (“Türküler susmaz , halaylar sürer”) and “We will not be defeated by oppression” (“Baskılar bizi yıldıramaz”). He also noted that he had been on the concert’s organising committee. 9.  On 6 March 2008 the Malatya Assize Court convicted the applicant as charged and sentenced him to ten months’ imprisonment. In its judgment, on the basis of a police report on a police video recording of the concert of 5 April 2007, the indictment, the applicant’s defence submissions, and the public prosecutor’s observations on the merits of the case, the court considered it established that the applicant had chanted the slogans noted in the indictment. The court considered that the concert, for which legal and administrative authorisation had been obtained, had become a propaganda activity in favour of the DHKP/C, and that the applicant had chanted slogans used by that organisation. The Malatya Assize Court concluded that the applicant had committed the offence of disseminating propaganda in favour of a terrorist organisation. 10.  The applicant appealed. 11.  On 4 July 2011 the Court of Cassation upheld the first-instance court’s judgment. 12.  Between 6 October 2011 and 1 August 2012 the applicant duly served his prison sentence.