Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish penal court has released a journalist detained for more than a year over alleged ties to a failed ...

İstanbul 14th Heavy Penal Court has rejected Constitutional Court’s decision to release journalist Şahin Alpay on the ground that right violation occurred against Alpay. The penal court ruled ...

After the second Constitutional Court decision, ruling that his rights have been violated, journalist Şahin Alpay, who was in jail for 20 months, has been released from Silivri Prison on house arrest.

The decision came as the European Court of Human Rights was close to issuing its own ruling on the petitions filed by Altan and Alpay, which were backed by RSF and other NGOs. Altan has been held ...