Unlawfully Detained in a Turkish Prison, Osman Kavala Still Stands up for Rights

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Osman Kavala and his wife Ayşe Buğra photographed during her visit to him in Silivri prison, Istanbul, January 2025. © Private Osman Kavala, the respected Turkish human rights defender, has been behind bars in Istanbul’s Silivri high security jail for almost eight years. He is serving a life sentence without the chance of parole, having been convicted following a preposterous trial on baseless allegations of organizing and financing the Istanbul Gezi park protests in 2013 in an attempt to overthrow the governmentThe May-June 2013 Gezi Park demonstrations and sit-in,…

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