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Mar 14, 2021 · 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 freedoms and an ...
Mar 5, 2021 · Kelsey Kremer / AP. In a case that has been widely denounced as an attack on press freedom in the US, Andrea Sahouri, a reporter with the Des Moines Register, is scheduled to go on trial Monday over criminal charges related to her reporting on Black Lives Matter protests last year. Police in Des Moines, Iowa, pepper-sprayed Sahouri in the face ...
Detroit teen facing 19 charges after 4 shot, including 2 kids, pregnant teen. Andrea May Sahouri covers criminal justice for the Detroit Free Press.
Mar 9, 2021 · 0:59. DES MOINES, Iowa – Andrea Sahouri, the Des Moines Register reporter arrested while covering racial justice protests last summer, took the stand Tuesday, saying she was a reporter doing her ...
Mar 11, 2021 · Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri hugs her mother Muna Tareh-Sahouri after being found not guilty at the conclusion of her trial at the Drake University Legal Clinic, Wednesday, March 10 ...
Mar 10, 2021 · Andrea Sahouri listens to opening statements in her trial over charges stemming from her coverage of racial injustice protests. A jury found an Iowa newspaper reporter not guilty of criminal charges over her coverage of Black Lives Matter protests last year in an unusual case that civil rights groups and advocates had widely condemned as an ...
Mar 10, 2021 · Today, a jury in Polk City Iowa found Des Moines Register journalist Andrea Sahouri, who was arrested at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020 simply for doing her job as a reporter, not guilty on charges of “failure to disperse” and “interference with official acts.” The prosecutor insisted on moving ahead with a trial for two simple misdemeanors, which carried the potential to result ...
