MediaBistro’s 10,000 Words reports: For whatever reason — be it covering protests, phone hacking or the commonly used disturbing the peace charge — journalists and jail cells aren’t exactly strangers. Some journalists are arrested for simply doing their jobs in difficult areas while others are actually breaking the law. With that in mind, here’s a list of some of the more prominent cases of journalists arrested in June alone.
- Press Association Reporter Arrested for Phone Hacking
- Sam Mayfield, a freelancer journalist and filmmaker, was arrested on June 6, 2011, while covering the protests in Wisconsin.
- Pete Tucker, of thefightback.org, and Jim Epstein, a Reason.tv producer, were arrested on June 22, 2011, while covering the D.C. Taxicab Commission, a public meeting.
- On June 13 and 14, 2011, three Somali reporters were arrested for covering protests in Mogadishu, reports the Committee to Protect Journalists. Two Radio Kulmiye reporters, Mohamed Amin and Ahmed Ali Kaahiye, along with Abdifatah Mohamed Hashi, a journalist from the popular Somali website Keymediai, were arrested but were later released with no charges filed against them.