A Turkish court has rejected an appeal to release American pastor Andrew Brunson from his house arrest, according to local media. Brunson, a 50-year-old evangelical pastor, faces 35 years in prison on charges of espionage and terror-related charges. He has been held in Turkey for two years and accused by local prosecutors of “terrorist” ties to the Islamist Gulen movement, which has been blamed for a failed coup in July 2016. Its leader lives in Pennsylvania and the U.S. has rejected calls from Turkey to have him extradited. The Turkish court in Izmir upheld a lower-court decision that rejected lifting Brunson’s house arrest, according to the state-run Anadolu agency. It also rejected an appeal for his travel ban to be lifted. Brunson’s next hearing is scheduled for October 12.
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