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Turkey Releases Vice News Journalist After 131 Days in Prison

HeadlineJan 06, 2016

In Turkey, Iraqi Kurdish journalist Mohammed Rasool, who worked for Vice News, has been released after 131 days in prison. Rasool was accused of assisting a terrorist organization. He was arrested in August in southeastern Turkey, where the Turkish government has imposed curfews as part of a wide-ranging crackdown. Human rights groups have recorded well over 100 civilian deaths in the area. A report by the Committee to Project Journalists last month called Turkey the fifth worst jailer of journalists in the world.

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