A cameraman and a news reporter who were shooting a documentary for VICE News have been detained in Turkey and are now being charged for allegedly assisting the Islamic State terror group.
Philip Pendlebury is a 29-year- old cameraman from Wigan, his friend first put out a Facebook post alerting people about the situation.
“He's been filming the protests and fighting between the Kurds and the Turkish military in South East Turkey and the government are trying their best to stifle any coverage of this to hide the crimes they're committing against the Kurds on a daily basis.”-
Pendlebury's friend wrote on why Philip and news correspondent Jake Hanrahan had been arrested The pair have been charged with ‘assisting Islamic State’ and are due to stand trial in Turkey. Vice News condemned the accusations as ‘baseless and false’.
Amnesty International have also spoke on the matter by saying the charges were another example of the Turkish authorities ‘suppressing the reporting of stories that are embarrassing to them’.
- " It is completely proper that journalists should cover this important story. The decision to detain the journalists was wrong, while the allegation of assisting Islamic State is unsubstantiated, outrageous and bizarre. They are held on pre-trial detention, and they could well be there until it comes to trial. In Turkey it is very slow-moving and it could take six months, or even longer, for an indictment to be prepared. It could well not come to trial before six months or more.
— Andrew Gardner, Amnesty International’s Turkey researcher said.
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