2006-10-26

Blogger stays in prison, defying grand jury order

What is a Journalist

by Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer Blogger and anarchist Josh Wolf, spending his 57th day in federal prison today for refusing to surrender video he shot of a violent San Francisco protest, is well on his way to becoming the longest-jailed journalist in U.S. history. To the government, the 24-year-old San Franciscan is hindering a federal grand jury investigation into serious crimes -- an attack on a police officer who suffered a fractured skull during the July 2005 rally and the attempted burning of his patrol car. read more...

1 comment:

adrienne said...

Thanks for posting this, Ben! Another independent journalist was just shot in Oaxaca.