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| Turkish court arrests British journalists on 'ISIL terror' charges | |
| 2015-09-01 | |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] A Turkish court has remanded in jug two British journalists working for US-based media outlet VICE News on terror charges, in a case that has sparked fresh concern about press freedom. The two British news hounds and their Iraqi translator have been charged with "engaging in terror activity" on behalf of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, the court in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir said on Aug. 31. A fourth suspect, their driver, was allowed to go free, an AFP correspondent reported from the court. They have now been taken to a jail in Diyarbakir ahead of an eventual trial. There were no further details over the evidence of their alleged links to ISIL jihadists. The news hounds were detained last week covering unrest in southeast ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... which has raged as the government presses a military offensive against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels. They had earlier been questioned by prosecutors who ruled to take the case to court. The four men, including the driver, had been held in police custody since their detention last week. Reports said that they were locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! after police acted on a tipoff and confiscated the footage shot during their reporting. All have denied the accusations in the presence of their lawyers. VICE News, an Internet-based channel which produces in-depth video reports, named the two British journalists in a statement as Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury.
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! pending trial. Their employer has called the charges "baseless and alarmingly false." Two British journalists, correspondent Jake Hanrahan and cameraman Philip Pendlebury, and their ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... -based assistant were detained on Thursday while reporting from Diyarbakir, the main city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast. A court official said the court in Diyarbakir ordered them arrested on Monday. It was not immediately clear which organization the journalists are accused of aiding. The three were detained in Diyarbakir's Baglar district where Kurdish youths frequently clash with security officials. | |
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