Turkish activist Osman Kavala receives the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize

THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE

The 11th Václav Havel Human Rights Prize was awarded to Osman Kavala, a Turkish activist who has been in prison continuously since 2017 following his arrest for alleged links to the Gezi Park protests. The award was presented during a special ceremony organised at the opening of the autumn plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. In a 2019 ruling, the European Court of Human Rights ordered Kavala's immediate release, finding that his detention violated his rights and pursued the aim of 'silencing him as a human rights defender'. In 2022, the Grand Chamber of the Court confirmed that Ankara had not fulfilled its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights. In a letter written from Kavala Prison, he dedicated the award to his fellow citizens illegally detained. Quoting the words that Václav Havel wrote to his wife Olga in 1980 while in prison, Kavala reiterated that 'the most important thing is not to lose hope. This does not mean closing our eyes to the horrors of the world. In fact, only those who have not lost faith and hope can see the horrors of the world with true clarity'..

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