Vice Protests Turkey Jailing of Translator With Online Blackout
- Mohammed Rasool has been held in custody since August
- Two U.K. journalists he was working with have been freed
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Vice Media Inc., the youth-focused media company known for ambitious global reporting, is blacking out its websites and social-media channels for two hours Wednesday to protest the imprisonment of Mohammed Rasool, a translator detained by Turkish authorities while he was reporting for the company.
Visitors to Vice home pages -- there are almost 100 globally -- will encounter a blacked-out screen with a video message relaying Rasool’s story and a link to a Change.org online petition created with the Committee to Protect Journalists, the company said in a statement. The sites will be down from 10 a.m. New York time until noon.