Three men arrested in connection with an assault on Guardian columnist Owen Jones have been released on bail.
The columnist, 35, had been out celebrating his birthday in north London with friends when he was set upon by a group of men
In an earlier appeal, Scotland Yard said detectives were investigating whether the "completely senseless attack" outside the Lexington pub, in Islington, was a hate crime.
The force said three men, aged 39, 34 and 29, were held on Thursday after handing themselves in at a police station.
They were all arrested on suspicion of violent disorder and assault occasioning actual bodily harm in connection to the attack in the early hours of August 17.
On Friday morning, police said three men had been bailed until late September and that a file had been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service.
