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Put on trial for reporting on torture in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority eastern province of Van, journalists Bilen, Uğur, Abi, Sala and Durgut have been acquitted of “membership of a terrorist organization”. Sala is given a deferred prison sentence for “propaganda”.

Arrested after reporting on two citizens thrown from a helicopter in Van, four journalists were released last week. The Van 6th Heavy Penal Court has rejected the prosecutor’s objection to the release of the journalists.

Adnan Bilen, Cemil Uğur, Şehriban Abi and Nazan Sala were in pre-trial detention for reporting on an incident of torture in the Kurdish-majority Van province.

Arrested shortly after they reported it with documents that Servet Turgut and Osman Şiban had been thrown from a helicopter following their detention by soldiers in Van, four journalists have been indicted after serving 130 days in pre-trial detention.

Arrested for having reported on Servet Turgut and Osman Şiban, who were thrown from a helicopter and tortured by soldiers in Van, Adnan Bilen, Cemil Uğur, Şehriban Abi and Nazan Sala have been behind bars for 101 days, with no indictment.