Several organizations that are devoted to the storage of freedom of speech and the protection of the pressed members demand the release of a prominent immigration report, which was arrested in Atlanta at the beginning of this month and is now on the right track.
Mario GuevaraA Spanish-speaking reporter with an Emmy Award winner based in Metro Atlanta was initially charged With improper introduction to a road, the disability of the law enforcement officers and the illegal assembly, all of which were all offenses. Guevara, an immigrant from El Salvador, has been a legal inhabitant of the United States for more than 20 years. However, the indictment for offense after his arrest made it possible for immigration and customs work to put a prisoner on him and pave the way for potential deportation.
Later he was transferred to ice custody and obeyed the omission of the Gwinnett County because of three further offenses due to distracted driving, the failure, a traffic control device and a ruthless driving, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Body camera film material Received from the AJC, Guevara showed both a helmet and a vest that marked him as a member of the press. He had reported a protest against the immigration policy of the Trump government.
“At the time of his arrest, Guevara wore a press vest and clearly identified himself for law enforcement,” wrote Katherine Jacobsen from the non-profit organizational committee to protect journalists in a letter to the managing director of DEKALB County, Lorraine Cochran-Johnson. “Video recordings show that Guevara in no way disabled police activity, but document the protest, a question of public interest.”
In a letter to the US secretary of home protection, Kristi NoEM, the committee for the protection of journalists and other free press representatives, including the Atlanta Press Club, the Georgia First Amendment Foundation and the Georgia Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists asked them to facilitate the release of Guevara.
“We demand that it is released in bond and that a distance procedure against him, which was triggered by three offenses, which seem to be in conflict with his first change rights as a journalist, drop it clearly and immediately”, the “, the” letter States. “If Guevara's case is done, this would be a dark erosion of both the freedom of the press and the rule of law. Journalists who are not US citizens could only be exposed to deportation just because the local law enforcement authorities were charged in court due to retribution measures due to reporting without court injuries.”
Official account of the Homeland Security official account with media reporting on the arrest in A post On the social media site X and confirmed that Guevara was “handed over to ice custody and was included in the distance method”.
Guevara is currently being held in the Folkston Ice Processing Center in South Georgia, which should be greatest The immigrants in the United States. His legal team did not immediately answer a request for a comment.
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