Two Vice News journalists have been released from a Turkish prison while their assistant remains detained. Correspondent Jake Hanrahan and cameraman Philip Pendlebury, who along with their driver and fixer were detained a week ago on charges of aiding an unnamed terrorist organization, were freed. Their assistant, Mohammed Ismael Rasool, had his appeal rejected and remains imprisoned. “Vice News has received confirmation from the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office that two of our journalists, Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury have been released from a Turkish prison,” the network said. Also Read: Vice News Crew Faces Terrorism Charges in Turkey “While we are grateful that.
- 9/3/2015
- by Jordan Chariton
- The Wrap
Two Vice News journalists who were arrested in Turkey on terror-related charges have been released from prison. Their assistant remains in custody. The two British journalists, correspondent Jake Hanrahan and cameraman Philip Pendlebury, and their Turkey-based assistant were detained last week in Diyarbakir, the main city in Turkey's mostly Kurdish southeast, where renewed fighting has killed scores of people. "While we are grateful that they have been freed, we are deeply worried by reports that our other Vice News colleague, Mohammed Ismael Rasool, has had his appeal of release rejected by the Turkish government," said Vice in
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- 9/3/2015
- by The Associated Press, Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Three Vice News journalists detained in Turkey and charged with aiding an unnamed terrorist organization were transferred to a prison five hours away from their lawyers and the court where they have appeared. British journalists Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury and their Turkey-based Iraqi translator Mohammed Ismael Rasool were charged on Monday with “knowingly and willfully helping the armed terrorist organization without being a part of its hierarchical structure,” Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported. “This move appears to be a blatant obstruction of the fair legal process that Turkey has repeatedly pledged to uphold,” Kevin Sutcliffe, Vice’s Head of News Programming.
- 9/2/2015
- by Jordan Chariton
- The Wrap
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