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IOWA CITY, Iowa — A journalist went on trial Monday on charges stemming from her coverage of a protest against racial injustice in Des Moines last year, after Iowa prosecutors defied international pressure to drop a rare effort to punish a working...
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A police officer testified Monday that he arrested a journalist at an unruly Black Lives Matter protest last year in Iowa after she did not
Here’s Merrick Garland’s Orientation Memo for the Trump-Era Hangover on Press Freedom President Joe Biden walks along the Colonnade of the White House Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. (White House photo by Adam Schultz) When President Biden announced the nomination of Merrick Garland as the next attorney general, Biden criticized incendiary rhetoric against the press as contributing to the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. A new president—and new leadership at the Department of Justice—will mean turning a corner on a strenuous four years, in which the Justice Department was repeatedly drawn ...
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Global interest as journalist arrested at Black Lives Matter protest goes on trial in US.
A journalist arrested while covering a Black Lives Matter protest in Des Moines, Iowa, last May was in court Monday facing trial on misdemeanor charges of failure to disperse and interference with official acts. Andrea Sahouri, a reporter for The Des Moines Register, was pepper-sprayed and briefly detained after police and protesters clashed during the…