The three Turkish men: Menir Demir, aged 38, board member of Özgür-Der, Association for the Rights of Freedom of Thought and Education, Mustafa Egilli, journalist and board member of Özgür-Der, and Hasip Yokus, member of Özgür-Der, were released on 12 September 2007 and have returned to Turkey from Iraq. They had been detained without charge or trial since their arrest by the Kurdish authorities of northern Iraq in June 2006.
