This week the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered a landmark judgment in the case of prominent Turkish human rights defender, Osman Kavala.
It denounced the bad faith of Turkey’s authorities, and ruled that Kavala has been unlawfully imprisoned for almost nine years based on a politically motivated trial.
Consequently, the court stated that his criminal conviction must be considered null and void and ordered his immediate release.
Unfortunately, this may not happen.
Turkey has already defied two previous binding rulings from the court in his case.
