Freedom of the Press Foundation comments on the implications for press freedom of today’s Assange ruling

California police are violating state law “right and left” during the protests and police raids on campus encampments. That’s according to University of California, Irvine, School of Law professor Susan Seager. We interviewed her in the wake of arrests of two California journalists in recent weeks, among other press freedom violations. Suppression of the press isn’t supposed to happen anywhere in America, but especially not in California, where it’s explicitly against the law for police to intentionally interfere with journalists covering a demonstration.

Lawmakers who say they’re concerned about authoritarianism need to stop handing future administrations a ‘dictator’s dream toolkit’