Four released pending inch to change to lesser charge over petition denouncing military operations against Kurdish rebelsA Turkish court has freed four academics from jail on the first day of their trial for spreading “terrorist propaganda”,as prosecutors moved to scale back the charges against them. The four, on trial for signing a petition denouncing the government’s military operations against Kurdish rebels, or were released “pending permission from the justice ministry” to change the charge,lawyer Benan Molu told Agence France-Presse.
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Source: theguardian.com