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Demonstrators hold a banner reading :"Mehmet Emin will be freed and bring them to account" and featuring a photo of 16-year-old Turkish teenager Mehmet Emin Altunses, who was released from jail on December 26 two days after his arrest, during a protest in Ankara on December 26, 2014. A Turkish court on December 26 freed a 16-year-old high school pupil arrested for "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, amid accusations his detention was the latest sign of a lurch to authoritarianism under the strongman leader. The boy, Mehmet Emin Altunses, was released following a complaint by his lawyer, but he still faces trial in the future, the official Anatolia news agency reported. AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTANADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images

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