ISTANBUL, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- A superior court in Istanbul on Monday ordered a retrial of Enis Berberoglu, a lawmaker from the main opposition party imprisoned over espionage charges, annulling his 25-year-in-prison sentence, local media reported.
The decision came after Berberoglu's lawyers appealed and asked for a re-examination of his case, the Hurriyet daily said.
The court, however, ordered his continued detention and ruled out any possibility of probation, citing "the status of current evidence and his potential to escape," the daily said.
Berberoglu from the Republican People's Party was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in jail in June by an Istanbul court for providing a Turkish daily with video purporting to show Turkey's intelligence agency trucking weapons to Syria in early 2014.
The main opposition responded by launching a so-called Justice March, in which the party's leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu and thousands of followers marched on foot from Ankara, the national capital, to Istanbul, a route that stretches some 450 km.
