More than 200 protesters gathered in Foley Square in Lower Manhattan on Oct. 1 to rally in support of press freedom after recent attacks on journalists at Federal Plaza Immigration Court.
The day before, on Sept. 30, federal agents grabbed and shoved journalists reporting on court proceedings. Footage of the incident shows photojournalist Olga Fedorova being thrown atop Vural Elibol, a Turkish journalist who was later hospitalized.
This came only days after a federal agent violently shoved an Ecuadorian woman to the ground shortly after her husband had been arrested inside the courthouse…