Continued detention of Mario Guevara is retaliation for his reporting and violates his first amendment rights, filing says
The ACLU called Immigration and customs enforcement (Ice)’s continued detention of Atlanta-area journalist Mario Guevara an act of retaliation for his reporting on immigration raids, according to a federal petition filed on Thursday.
Guevara, a Salvadorian immigrant who has been in the United States for more than 20 years, was arrested on 14 June by a police officer in suburban Atlanta while covering the No Kings Day protests in a neighborhood with a high density of immigrants. Despite all charges being dropped, Guevara has been in Ice detention in south Georgia for almost two months, the only journalist in America imprisoned as a consequence of their work today, the ACLU said.
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