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Gezi Protests Case Back to Square One: Kavala Likens His Imprisonment to a “Flag Race”
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Gezi Protests Case Back to Square One: Kavala Likens His Imprisonment to a “Flag Race”

Yasin Kobulan
22 Mayıs 2021

As the acquittal of nine defendants in the Gezi Park Case was overturned by a court of appeal, a retrial has begun at Istanbul's 30th High Criminal Court. In the first hearing, the panel of judges voted by majority to remand Osman Kavala in prison. Kavala likened his ongoing imprisonment despite an ECtHR ruling to Arthur Miller's famous play "The Crucible," penned during the McCarthy era.