‘Emotionally Destroyed’: Calls Grow to Free Reporter Held 5 Weeks After ICE Arrest

‘Emotionally destroyed’: Calls grow to free reporter held 5 weeks after ICE arrest

Press freedom and immigrants' rights advocates are calling for the release of an Atlanta journalist from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention after he was arrested last month while filming an anti-Trump protest.Mario Guevara, a native of El Salvador, has lived in the United States legally for more than two decades, where he became renowned as one of the Atlanta area's most trusted immigration reporters.The Guardian described Guevar…

Atlanta-based reporter has been in jail for over a month, for the U.S. crime of Journalism

Mario Guevara, a Salvadoran journalist who has lived in the United States for over twenty years, was arrested by Doraville, Georgia, police while covering the No Kings Day protest on June 14 in that town. Since then, he has been shuttled among various jail cells in Georgia, with ICE manipulating and defying the legal system to keep him incarcerated. — Read the rest The post Atlanta-based reporter has been in jail for over a month, for the U.S. c…