Istanbul: A judge ejected one of Turkey’s most respected investigative journalists from court on Monday and ruled that he and three other suspects should remain in jail, in the controversial trial of staff from the main opposition newspaper.

It was one of the angriest exchanges so far in the trial on terror charges of 17 current and former writers, cartoonists and executives from Cumhuriyet (“Republic”), which has raised alarm over press freedom under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The trial began on July 24, and after several conditional releases in previous hearings, four of the suspects remain behind bars.Agence France-Presse