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Human Rights Group Concerned Over Journalists’ Arrests at Occupy Wall Street

A human rights office for the Americas on Thursday criticized the arrest and assault of journalists during Occupy Wall Street protests in New York and other U.S. cities in recent weeks...

The office alleged in a statement that at least three journalists have been assaulted since October by police officers, and two others by participants, in demonstrations in Nashville, Tennessee, and Oakland, California.

“In addition, at least a dozen journalists have reportedly been placed under temporary arrest while performing their professional duties,” the statement said.

See this also from RT : Police cracking down on media at OWS?

And finally, here's hopey-changey on World press Freedom Day:

"We rededicate ourselves to the basic principle enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that every person has the right to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

"We recognise the courageous journalists who work every day to give meaning to these rights, often at great risk to their lives, as we have seen most recently with the tragic deaths of journalists in Libya," Obama said.

"As we witnessed in the historic events in Tunisia and Egypt, new media tools can also help empower citizens exercise their freedoms of speech and association, yet these same 21st century tools can be used to filter, block, and restrict free expression.

"That is why we must always stand up for the free flow of information around the world," he said.

"History shows that one of the ingredients of successful, prosperous, and stable societies is a free press where citizens can freely access information and hold their governments accountable," said the US President.

Dozens of countries curbing the press freedom: Obama