Josh Wolf: Longest Jailed Journalist In U.S. History
Blogger & Photo Journalist Josh Wolf.Via NBC11.com.
A freelance journalist who has been in prison for more than five months for refusing to give a videotape to a grand jury lost a renewed bid for release Tuesday.More here.
Josh Wolf, 24, will have been jailed for civil contempt of court longer than any other journalist in U.S. history as of Feb. 6.
In a motion filed in San Francisco last week, Wolf asked U.S. District Judge William Alsup to release him from the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin on the grounds that he will never comply with the grand jury's request, no matter how long he is confined.
Background here, here, here, here, here, and here.
posted by Fergie @ 1/31/2007 01:36:00 PM
1 Comments:
Ouch. Five months in jail would certainly motivate my thinking on the issue.
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