Related to Article 312 or the Gezi Park Trial as it is referred to in the press, a criminal indictment seeking life imprisonment for Kavala and 15 other people, including journalist Can Dündar and actor Memet Ali Alabora, was accepted on 4 March 2019 by the Istanbul 30th Heavy Penal Court.[24] The indictment accuses the defendants of forming the mastermind behind the scenes of the Gezi Park protests, which is characterized as an "attempt to overthrow the government through violence" in this document.[25] The indictment also alleges that philanthropist George Soros was behind the conspiracy.[26] The trial was to begin on the 24 June 2019.[27] The verdict in the so-called Gezi Trial was only delivered on the 18 February 2020, when Kavala was acquitted.[28]