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Tuesday, January 5, 2016
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Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Vice News says reporter released on bail in Turkey
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIraqi Kurdish journalist Mohammed Rasool has been released after 131 days in a Turkish prison, the organization he was working for says. Rasool’s arrest on charges of assisting a terrorist organization had been widely criticized by international media organizations.
Rasool, who was arrested in August while covering the conflict in Turkey’s mostly Kurdish southeast, will be required to report to a police station twice a week and is barred from leaving the country.
“Rasool is now looking forward to being reunited with his family, friends and colleagues, who ask for his privacy to be respected during this time,” Vice News says.
— AFP
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