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Prosecutors Drop Case Against Stanford Student Journalist

Columbia Journalism Review · Bill Grueskin · last updated

Prosecutors in California said Thursday that they are not going to pursue a criminal case against Dilan Gohill, the Stanford student journalist who was arrested while covering a pro-Palestinian campus protest and occupation of the university president’s office last June.

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