Turkey (text reproduced here; link to changing page): A judge of the Orhangazi Criminal Court in northwestern Turkey released two young nationalists jailed on assault-and battery charges against a convert to Christianity. The decision was based on a hospital report on the injured Christian, together with his failure to appear at the hearing. According to a hospital release order, Yakup Cindilli, 32, had emerged from his two-month coma and his life was no longer in danger. The judge accepted the state prosecutor’s recommendation to release Ibrahim Sekman and Huseyin Bektas for the duration of the trial against them. Cindilli’s sister told the court that her brother had just begun “like a baby” to walk again and that his speech did not usually make sense. “If you would ask him questions, he would not be able to answer them,” she told the judge. Cindilli was attacked and beaten on October 19 by right-wing nationalists linked with the Nationalist Movement Party for distributing New Testaments and “doing missionary work.” The next day he slipped into a coma, caused by a blood clot on his brain. (Compass Direct)