Turkish Court Charges Vice Journalists With 'Aiding ISIS'; News Agency Slams Attempt To 'Censor' Press
By Michael Kaplan @michaeld_kaplan m.kaplan@ibtimes.com on August 31 2015 3:10 PM EDT
A court in southeastern Turkey has brought formal charges of "aiding" the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, against two British journalists and an Iraqi fixer working for VICE News, a judge announced Monday. VICE has condemned the charges as "baseless" and said the arrests were attempts to "intimidate and censor" the press.
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