On Wednesday, 26 June, at the beginning of the trial in Turkey of 16 representatives of civil society – including human rights defenders Osman Kavala and Yiğit Aksakoğlu – for their involvement in the demonstrations in Gezi Park in 2013, the spokesperson for the European External Action Service stressed the importance of the presumption of innocence.
In a statement, the spokesperson said that “real and lasting improvements in the area of fundamental freedoms and the rule of law, the...