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Mar 11, 2021 · IOWA CITY, Iowa — An Iowa jury on Wednesday acquitted a journalist who was pepper-sprayed and arrested by police while covering a protest, in a case that critics have derided as an attack on press...
Mar 10, 2021 · Journalist Andrea Sahouri was acquitted Wednesday after being arrested while covering a protest over the death of George Floyd in May of 2020. Sahouri had been charged with failure to disperse...
Mar 9, 2021 · Sahouri, a Des Moines Register public safety reporter, is one of 116 journalists arrested or detained while covering Black Lives Matter protests that erupted after the death of George Floyd,...
- Tyler Kingkade
Mar 10, 2021 · Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri was arrested by police as she was covering a Black Lives Matter protest. She was charged with failing to disperse and interfering with official acts.
Mar 18, 2021 · On the night of 31 May 2020, police in the city of Des Moines, Iowa, pepper sprayed, arrested, and detained journalist Andrea Sahouri while she was reporting on a Black Lives Matter protest even after she yelled “I’m press, I’m press.”
Mar 10, 2021 · Sahouri, 25, immediately identified herself as a reporter on assignment but was subjected to what she called “extremely painful” pepper spray blasts and jailed.
Feb 24, 2021 · Editorial: Reporter Andrea Sahouri was arrested May 31 while covering a third day of social justice protests in Des Moines after George Floyd's death.