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Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri was pepper-sprayed and then jailed in May while trying to report on a clash between protesters and police.

AP Police officers are shown arresting Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri after a Black Lives Matter protest she was covering on May 31 in Des Moines was dispersed by tear gas. Sahouri is set to stand trial Monday on misdemeanor charges, a case that prosecutors have pursued despite international condemnation from advocates for press freedom. Many free press advocates, like Amnesty International and the Iowa Freedom of Information Council, have called on the charges against Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri to be dropped. The program director for the Committee to Protect Jou...

The Des Moines Register reporter, Andrea Sahouri, was arrested as she covered a Black Lives Matter protest. "Treating media work as a crime is a human rights violation," Amnesty International said.

Recap: Day one of Register reporter Andrea Sahouri trial sees DMPD officers testifying on response to Merle Hay protests. William Morris, Des Moines Register Register reporter Andrea Sahouri talks about being detained at Merle Hay Mall protest Replay Video UP NEXT An Iowa journalist faces trial starting today on charges stemming from her coverage of a protest against racial injustice, a case that prosecutors have pursued despite international condemnation from free press advocates who say she was just doing her job, according to the Associated Press. The case of Des Moines Re...

A police officer testified that he arrested a journalist at an unruly Black Lives Matter protest last year in Iowa after he repeatedly shot clouds of pepper spray to disperse a crowd and she did not leave.