by Jane Whyatt
Europe’s media freedom community is celebrating the release from jail of Turkish-Swedish journalist Hamza Yalçin. The fifty-nine year old Swedish-Turkish citizen has been held in the Brians prison near Barcelona since he was arrested on August 3rd at the airport.
Hamza Yalçin was in Spanish jail since August 3rd. (Picture: Odak)
But although he is allowed to leave his prison cell, he is still not free. Yalçin must regularly report to the Spanish police. His passport is withdrawn and he is not allowed to travel back to the small town in Sweden that has been his home since 1984.…
