After the arrest of journalists in the USA: PLEASE release the journalists and charges to be dropped off - host of Democracy Now! Amy Goodman was arrested By Andrew P. Harrod Washington D.C. / New York City / London/September 6, 2008/3mnewswire.org/-- The journalist, author of serveral books, host, editor, founder of IBS Independent Broadcasting Service Leeds, Mr. Andreas Klamm, has written to state officials a public open letter to release the independent journalists and that the charges against the journalists which have got arrested may be dropped off. In the beginning of September the famous host, journalist and Democray Now! anchor, Mrs Amy Goodman and her two colleagues Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar got arrested as we have learned and have been later released. Also an AP Associated Press photographer Matt Rourke got arrested in the United States of America. This follows, according to FREE PRESS, the arrest of an ABC...

Free Press Calls for Charges to Be Dropped Against Amy Goodman, Independent Journalists Contact: Craig Aaron, Free Press, (202) 265-1490, x25 WASHINGTON, D.C./freepress.net -- Today Free Press, the national, nonpartisan media reform group, called on St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and local law enforcement officials to drop all charges against all journalists arrested while covering protests outside the Republican National Convention. Those arrested Monday include Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and two producers from her show, as well as a photographer from the Associated Press. Other independent journalists have been pepper-sprayed and even held at gunpoint during "pre-emptive" raids aimed at disrupting protesters. This follows the arrest of an ABC News producer at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Josh Silver, executive director of Free Press, made the following statement: "We condemn the arrest and harassment of journalists...