Vlogger Jailed For Refusing to Hand Over Video

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"Josh Wolf, a videoblogger based in the Bay Area, was arrested and jailed earlier this week, for refusing to turn over a 15 minute video he filmed at a G8 protest in San Francisco last summer. Wolf, who provided excerpts of the footage both to local news outlets and the courts, will not turn over the unedited footage, which authorities believe could contain footage of three protesters attacking a police officer on the scene. After denying Federal agents' direct requests (made upon a visit to his home, during which they refused to disclose WHY they needed the footage), the courts have now found him in contempt, and tossed him in prison. For his part, Wolf insists the footage contains no such evidence, and is just being requested as part of a larger attempt to identify antiwar groups as "terrorist" outfits. In a post on Wolf's blog dated August 1, his mother confirms that Josh is being held in federal prison in Dublin, in the East Bay area. Not a place that anyone wants to spend their time. If you want to help Josh, please consider making a donation to his legal defense fund, so that his family can get some financial assistance with the hefty legal fees he's certain to incur during this fight."

Blogger Jailed After Defying Court Orders [N.Y. Times]
Local Blogger Josh Wolf Jailed for Mission Protest Video [Metroblogging SF]
Videoblogger's protest footage demanded by FBI [Boing Boing]
The Revolution Will Be Televised [Josh Wolf's Blog]