On 4 October 2016 she was taken into custody and arrested in November 2016.[16] According to the International Law Bureau the prosecution demanded 130 years of imprisonment for terror related charges due to her membership in the legal party DTP and 16 statements and speeches she made during meetings and press conferences she held before meetings of the DBP.[17] On the 5 January 2018 she was sentenced to 2 years and three months in prison.[18] In January 2019 she began a hunger strike in solidarity with ongoing hunger strike of Leyla Güven demanding the end of the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan.[19] In February 2019, while still in hunger strike,[5] she was sentenced to 15 years in prison for being a member of a terrorist organization and making propaganda for a terrorist organization.[20]