Amid international concerns and national protests, a Turkish court released pop singer Gulsen from jail Monday but placed her under house arrest as she awaits trial on charges of “inciting hatred and enmity.”

The 46-year-old Gulsen Bayraktar Colakoglu, known on stage by her first name, was put behind bars Aug. 26, after an Istanbul prosecutor opened an investigation into a quip she made on stage four months ago. “He has studied in an Imam Hatip. … That is the root of his perversity,” Gulsen said, referring to religious secondary schools in an apparent jest to a member of her band, as both the band member and members of the audience clapped and laughed. 

The 15-second-clip, shared by pro-government daily Sabah and ATV on Aug. 24, went viral immediately as Turkey’s minister of justice and several others lashed out at her in unison. Conservative pundits leveled insults at her for disrespecting Imam Hatip alumni, a vocal and politically powerful group that includes President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. 

“Inciting one part of society toward another using begrudging, hateful and discriminating language under the guise of being an artist is the biggest disrespect to art,” Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag tweeted, saying that the artist’s remarks were “primitive” and “archaic.”