Next week, the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers will meet to discuss the launch of infringement proceedings, a rarely used procedure available under the European Convention onHuman Rights (the Convention), in the case of Osman Kavala. Council of Europe member states have a crucial role to play. At stake is the freedom of Osman Kavala, a human rights defender who is arbitrarily detained as a consequence of barely disguised political persecution for over four years.
