Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, two VICE News journalists who were imprisoned on charges of “knowingly and willingly” aiding a terrorist organization, have been released from prison, Suzan Fraser reports for The Associated Press.
Their translator, Mohammed Ismael Rasool, remains in custody “pending the conclusion of an investigation,” Fraser writes.
Hanrahan and Pendlebury were arrested along with Rasool last week and subsequently charged with assisting terrorists, accusations VICE calls “baseless” and “absurd.” Along with Rasool, they were reporting on escalating tensions between authorities and the youth wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, also known as the PKK.