国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

   

WORLD / America

Journalist jailed over protest footage
(AP)
Updated: 2006-08-02 11:12

SAN FRANCISCO - A freelance video journalist was jailed Tuesday for refusing to give a grand jury his unsold footage from a 2005 protest in which anarchists were suspected of vandalizing a police car.


Freelance video journalist, Joshua Wolf, 24, gestures during a rally outside of Federal Building in San Francisco, July 20, 2006. Wolf was whisked into custody from a federal courtroom in San Francisco, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006, for refusing to hand over to a grand jury his unpublished footage of a July 2005 protest of anarchists suspected of vandalizing a police car. [Reuters]

Joshua Wolf, 24, could remain behind bars until next summer, when the grand jury investigating the incident is due to expire.

Wolf had sold footage of the protest to San Francisco television stations and posted it on his Web site. Investigators are seeking portions of his videotape that haven't been broadcast.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup said there is no federal law shielding journalists from participating in grand jury investigations. The judge sided with prosecutors who suspect the footage may reveal who was behind the melee, part of an anarchist-led protest over the G-8 international economic conference last year in Scotland. A San Francisco police officer also was injured.

"This is direct evidence of what happened," Alsup said.

Alsup said he wasn't jailing Wolf to punish him. "The purpose of this is to get you to change your mind," the judge said as U.S. marshals removed Wolf from the courtroom.

Wolf's lawyer, Jose Luis Fuentes, said that relinquishing the footage to a grand jury would be tantamount to his client becoming "an arm of the government." Because of the subpoena, Fuentes said, the underground groups Wolf chronicles are denying him access.

The American Civil Liberties Union said federal authorities are disregarding California's shield law, which generally allows journalists to decline to divulge unpublished material to state authorities. That shield, however, does not attach to federal investigations.

Although the incident involved the San Francisco police, federal authorities are investigating because the it involves the destruction of federally funded property.

"We're taking the position that the government hasn't shown it has a connection to a legitimate federal interest here," ACLU attorney Alan Schlosser said after the two-hour hearing.

 
 

理塘县| 靖安县| 广平县| 久治县| 浦东新区| 塘沽区| 弥渡县| 枣庄市| 卢龙县| 峨山| 三原县| 平潭县| 比如县| 明溪县| 绥阳县| 安图县| 古丈县| 宜君县| 集贤县| 邵阳市| 临夏县| 杭锦后旗| 噶尔县| 枣强县| 山东省| 松潘县| 库车县| 正蓝旗| 明光市| 邵阳县| 苍溪县| 兰州市| 克拉玛依市| 偃师市| 阳西县| 南川市| 六盘水市| 吉木萨尔县| 镇江市| 泰顺县| 瑞安市|