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"ISTANBUL - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday that the rights of two prominent journalists had been violated during their pre-trial detention for over a year.The case of two journalists, Sahin Alpay and Mehmet Altan, was taken to Turkey&#x27;s Constitutional Court which ruled in January that they both be released, but a lower court threw out the decision.console.log(&quot;2390 BODY2. CatId is:&quot;&#x2B;catID);if(catID==120){&#x9;console.log(&quot;2390 BODY. YES for anyclip script&quot;);&#x9;var script = document.createElement(&#x27;script&#x27;);                  script.src = &#x27;https://player.anyclip.com/anyclip-widget/lre-widget/prod/v1/src/lre.js&#x27;;        script.setAttribute(&#x27;pubname&#x27;,&#x27;jpostcom&#x27;);    script.setAttribute(&#x27;widgetname&#x27;,&#x27;0011r00001lcD1i_12258&#x27;);    document.getElementsByClassName(&#x27;divAnyClip&#x27;)[0].appendChild(script);&#x9;&#x9;&#x9;}else if(catID !== 151) {&#x9;let widgetid = &quot;60fd6becf6393400049e6535&quot;;&#x9;if(catID === 69){&#x9;&#x9;widgetid = &quot;65c3a2148772803523c6f41b&quot;;&#x9;}else if(catID === 161){&#x9;&#x9;widgetid = &quot;65c3a224fb10822a0a7db2dd&quot;;&#x9;}&#x9;&#x9;console.log(&quot;2390 BODY. YES for vidazoo script&quot;);    var script = document.createElement(&#x27;script&#x27;);                  script.src = &#x27;https://static.vidazoo.com/basev/vwpt.js&#x27;;        script.setAttribute(&#x27;data-widget-id&#x27;, widgetid);    document.getElementsByClassName(&#x27;divVidazoo&#x27;)[0].appendChild(script);}  Altan, along with five other journalists, was jailed for life in February, while Alpay was released under house arrest on Saturday after more than a year in detention.The European court ruled that during their pre-trial detention their rights to liberty, security and freedom of expression had been violated.It also said that their continued detention after the Constitutional Court ruling &amp;quot;could not be regarded as lawful and in accordance with a procedure prescribed by law as required by the right to liberty and security&amp;quot;.A Turkish penal court last week ordered the release of Alpay, a columnist in the now defunct Zaman daily, following a second ruling by the constitutional court.In February, Altan and five other journalists including his brother were sentenced to life in jail for links to a failed military coup in July 2016.The verdict of the internationally monitored case drew fierce criticism from rights groups and Turkey&#x27;s Western allies, who said Turkey should reverse the decision."
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