Paper believes detention of national security reporter Dion Nissenbaum was related to country’s ban on reporting Isis videos, spokesman says

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The Wall Street Journal said on Saturday one of its reporters was detained in Turkey for nearly three days before authorities allowed him to leave the country.

Editor Gerard Baker said in a statement that national security reporter Dion Nissenbaum was prohibited from calling his family, editors or a lawyer while in custody.

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A spokesman said the paper believed Nissenbaum’s detention was related to Turkey’s ban on reporting Islamic State terror group videos. He would not comment further.

A top Turkish official warned journalists earlier this week not to share a video that allegedly shows two Turkish soldiers being burned alive.

Representatives at the Turkish consulate general in New York did not return messages.

The state department did not immediately return a message.

Nissenbaum told the Journal he was treated well while in a detention facility.