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Mehmet Osman KAVALA
Publisher, civil and cultural rights activist, and philanthropist Osman Kavala continues to serve a life sentence upheld on 28 September 2023 by Türkiye’s Court of Cassation. The court also upheld 18-year prison sentences against his co-defendants Çiğdem Mater, Can Atalay, Mine Özerden and Tayfun Kahraman (three other defendants – Mücella Yapıcı, Hakan Altınay and Yiğit Ali Ekmekçi – were acquitted in February 2025)…
Selahattin DEMIRTAŞ
On 16 May 2024, the Ankara 22nd Heavy Penal Court found writer and former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtaş, guilty of ‘aiding in undermining the unity and integrity of the state’, ‘incitement to commit a crime’ and ‘making terrorist propaganda’, sentencing him to a combined total of 42 years in prison…
Yuri Alexeyevich DMITRIEV
Historian, author and head of the Karelian branch of the human rights centre Memorial, north-western Russia, Yuri Dmitriev continues to serve a 15-year prison sentence in a high-security penal colony after conviction of alleged sexual offences his supporters…
Yevgenia BERKOVICH & Svetlana PETRIYCHUK
Theatre director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk are each serving lengthy prison sentences handed down by a military court in Moscow in July 2024, on fabricated ‘terrorism’ grounds…
Maksim ZNAK
Andrzej POCZOBUT
A board member of the Union of Poles in Belarus, Andrzej Poczobut continued to be held in solitary confinement, serving an eight-year prison term in connection with his coverage of 2020 anti-government protests in Belarus…
Uladzimir MACKIEVIČ
Aliaksandr FIADUTA
Ales BIALIATSKI
Writer, PEN Belarus member, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski continued to serve a 10-year prison sentence in a medium-security penal colony in Horki – a facility known for inmates being beaten and subjected to hard labour…
Kaciaryna ANDREJEVA (BACHVAŁAVA)
Journalist, writer and poet, Kaciaryna Andrejeva (real name Bachvałava) was arrested in Minsk in November 2020 while livestreaming a peaceful protest and sentenced to two years in prison in…
