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		</div><p>Britain has stepped up pressure on Turkey over the arrest of two British journalists on terror charges, reminding the authorities in Ankara of their duty to uphold human rights law.</p>
<p>The Foreign Office said it was &#8220;concerned&#8221; at the detention of Vice News correspondent Jake Hanrahan and cameraman Philip Pendlebury who have been charged with assisting the so-called Islamic State.</p>
<p>The two men were held together with a Turkey-based colleague, Mohammed Ismael Rasool, while filming clashes between police and youth members of the pro-Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) last Thursday in the south-east city of Diyarbakir.</p>
<p>Vice News has describe the charges against them as &#8220;baseless and false&#8221; and an &#8220;attempt to intimidate and censor their coverage&#8221;.</p>
<p>In a statement, a Foreign Office spokeswoman said that Britain expected Turkey to uphold its obligations to freedom of express under international agreements.</p>
<p>&#8220;Respect for freedom of expression and the right of media to operate without restriction are fundamental in any democratic society,&#8221; the spokeswoman said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Turkey is a state party to the European Convention on Human Rights and UN Declaration of Human Rights. We would expect the Turkish authorities to uphold the obligations enshrined in those agreements.&#8221;</p>
<p>A report on the Vice News website said that the three men had been transferred to a high-security &#8220;F-type&#8221; prison facility more than five hours away from where their legal representatives are based, and from the court where they are due to appear.</p>
<p>Kevin Sutcliffe, Vice’s head of news programming in Europe, said: &#8220;This move appears to be a blatant obstruction of the fair legal process that Turkey has repeatedly pledged to uphold.</p>
<p>&#8220;We call on the Turkish government to throw out these ridiculous charges and immediately release our colleagues.&#8221;</p>
<p>Vice said Mr Hanrahan and Mr Pendlebury were both experienced reporters, who had together covered the migrant crisis in Calais, the Scottish referendum, Irish republicanism, and other stories.</p>
<p>Mr Pendlebury had filmed in countries like Iraq, Afghanistan and North Korea, Mr Hanrahan had also written for The Guardian, the Independent, Wired, and Rolling Stone Middle East.</p>
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