Writer Nevin Berktaþ (52) was sentenced to ten months imprisonment on charges of "propaganda for an illegal organization". The charges were based on her book entitled "Difficult places that challenge the faith: Prison Cells". The book describes the process of resistance in the prison cells where she was incarcerated herself during the time of the military coup in 1980. Due to a calculation mistake, Berktaþ was imprisoned five years and seven months longer than the law actually stipulated.

As reported by Bianet today Bertaþ was arrested on 3 November. She requested to take the extra time she served in prison because of the calculation mistake into account for the recent sentence. The court dismissed her request. Her lawyer appealed to the superior court of the Istanbul 9th High Criminal Court.

Berktaþ was convicted after the military coup on 12 September 1980 on charges of membership of the Revolutionary Communist Union of Turkey. She received two prison sentences in 1986 and was in jail for 22 years. She was released in 2007. The writer filed a compensation claim because she had been imprisoned for an additional five years and seven months due to a calculation mistake. In the meantime, she was sentenced to imprisonment of ten months on the grounds of her book she wrote when she was in prison. She was imprisoned again this November. Thereupon, she started a legal struggle to have her extra time in prison taken into account.