19 փետրվար, 2020 13:07
Turkish Philanthropist Osman Kavala Acquitted, Detained Again Hours Later
By Mark Dovich On February 18, Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala and nearly a dozen other individuals were acquitted of all charges brought against them Additionally, Kavala, a prominent businessman and philanthropist in Turkey, was ordered to be released from prison Kavala had been held in pretrial detention since late 2017, when he was arrested without charge at Istanbul Atatürk Airport The criminal indictment seeking life imprisonment for Kavala alleged that the philanthropist of masterminding the Gezi Park protests, a wave of civil unrest that swept Turkey in 2013 According to the indictment, Kavala’s alleged coordination of the protests constituted “an attempt to overthrow the government” Turkish human rights groups, Western governments, and international bodies had been fiercely critical of the Turkish government’s case against Kavala, commonly referred to as the ‘Gezi case’ In December 2019, the European Court of Human Rights called for Kav
