It's no coincidence that when human rights are undermined, the people who defend them are often attacked too.
The activists were aware of the risks. They had seen how standing up for human rights was being increasingly criminalized in Turkey. And they knew that defending other people's freedoms could ultimately cost them their own.
On Tuesday, Turkish businessman and activist Osman Kavala was cruelly detained by police on new charges just hours after he and eight other defendants were acquitted for their alleged role in the anti-government Gezi Park protests of 2013. Kavala has already spent almost 28 months in prison on pretrial detention. The new charges pertain to his supposed involvement in the 2016 coup attempt.
A portrait of rights group Amnesty International's honorary chairman in Turkey, Taner Kilic, is hung on June 6, 2018, in Paris.Taner Kılıç spent more than 14 months in prison before his release on bail, and eight of the other defendants were jailed for almost four months each. For the past two and a half years, the threat of lengthy prison sentences has hung over all of them.
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