Case of Vice Reporters Underlines Turkish Crackdown on Internet Freedom

Two British reporters with Vice News charged with “deliberately aiding an armed organization” in Turkey, because their Iraqi colleague allegedly downloaded encryption software on his computer, were released from jail Thursday after a week in custody, a Vice spokesman told Al Jazeera.   Rights groups welcomed the release of the reporters, Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, who have since been transferred to a deportation center before leaving the country. But concern has been raised over the continued detention of their colleague Mohammed Ismael Rasool, who had been working with them in covering the sensitive Kurdish PKK insurgency in southeastern Turkey.