(Istanbul, November 1, 2024) – Türkiye’s continued unlawful detention of the human rights defender Osman Kavala is a result of prosecutors and courts effectively operating under the political ...

Call again for the immediate release of Osman Kavala, as required both by the ECtHR’s Kavala judgment and its highly exceptional finding of a violation of Article 46§1 in July 2022; Stress that ...

Kavala has been detained since 2017. Human rights activists have called for his release due to a lack of “facts, information, or evidence.” Imprisoned since 2017, Osman Kavala was found not ...

Businessperson and rights defender Osman Kavala, who was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment in late April for "attempting to overthrow the government" in the Gezi trial, completed the fifth ...

“Once again, we call for the immediate release of Osman Kavala, cleared of all charges. Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights must be complied with and not intentionally eluded ...

The Council of Europe on Monday awarded its top rights prize to jailed Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala, who has come under repeated attack from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The decision ...

Kavala is accused of participating in a failed 2016 coup attempt and was previously also charged with financing anti-government protests in 2013 together with several other suspects.

(Istanbul) – The prosecution of the rights defender and businessman Osman Kavala and four codefendants in connection with mass protests a decade ago has been unfair and essentially a political ...

UN Special Rapporteurs shared on November 25 their communication on continued detention of businessperson Osman Kavala and the related infringement proceedings they have written to the government of ...

A Turkish court has sentenced Osman Kavala, a prominent philanthropist and activist involved in Turkey’s pro-democracy movement prior to his arrest in 2017, to life in prison after convicting him ...

Kavala, 66, faced alternating charges that have ... Monday awarded its top rights prize to jailed Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala, who has come under repeated attack from President Recep ...