Just a day after the İstanbul election re-run. Kavala and Aksakoğlu should be released under normal conditions. But you know, nothing is normal now and the palace is just too vengeful…
The highly controversial trial of 16 individuals -actors, journalists, lawyers and activists- for
The prosecutor has provided absolutely no credible evidence of any criminal activity in the hundreds of intercepted phone calls, financial reports, travel records, and other material,” the HRW said ahead of the first hearing of the trial.
After examining indictment, @hrw finds "bogus" charges against 16 people facing life in prison for allegedly organising protests against Turkish govt's plans to raze Gezi Park in 2013. Civil society activist #OsmanKavala has been in jail 19 months awaiting trial's start next week https://t.co/5zEkQmlrQk
— Ayla Jean Yackley (@aylajean) June 19, 2019