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About Ivan Geshev
- Ivan Stoimenov Geshev (Bulgarian: ???? ????????? ?????) is a Bulgarian prosecutor whose nomination for Chief Public Prosecutor of Bulgaria by the country's Supreme Judicial Council led to public protests in the summer of 2019.
- Prominent civil society members and NGOs, including the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, assert he lacks the professional and moral qualities which are required for the position because of his record of abusing the law and human rights.
- Geshev's career took off when the current Chief Public Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov entered office in 2012.
- Geshev was initially promoted to Head of the Specialized Prosecutor's Office (2016-2018), then to Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor (2018–present), and finally to a candidate for Chief Public Prosecutor in 2019.Geshev's time in office has been characterized by highly publicized show arrests, speculative criminal proceedings, and controversial public statements in interviews and press conferences.
- Geshev says he is against the separation of powers, which he views as an extreme right idea.
- One of his famous operations, the Mladost case, was included in the 2018 Human Rights Report by the United States Department of State as an example of human rights violations.
- Geshev claims he “prefers lifelong sentences and sentences to death by firing squad” as a form of punishment, but “sentences to death by firing squad are not envisaged in Bulgaria”.
- Geshev participates in an exchange with Russia’s prosecution, which the current Chief Public Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov supported.
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