Josh Wolf Released!!

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Finally Josh Wolf has been released from a SF prison for protecting his journalistic rights.   Mr. Wolf has served the longest period ever for an American reporter in U.S. history.

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Josh Wolf Freed

San Francisco, California, U.S. - Freelance journalist Josh Wolf is scheduled to be freed today after spending nearly 7 1/2 months in prison
for refusing to obey a grand jury subpoena to turn over unpublished
footage of an anarchist organized San Francisco protest where a police
officer was seriously injured and a squad car was damaged.

Wolf has
long maintained that he did not see or capture either of those
instances and that the police would like to turn journalists into
surveillance cameras in the service of law enforcement. Wolf released
the video today via his blog accompanied by this statement:

During
the course of this saga I have repeatedly offered to allow a judge to
be the arbiter over whether or not my video material has any
evidentiary value. Today, you the public have the opportunity to be the
judge and I am confident you will see, as I do, that there is nothing
of value in this unpublished footage.

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