Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Last May, Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri was pepper-sprayed, restrained with zip ties and arrested while covering social justice protests after police killed George Floyd. Today, her trial began in Iowa. Free-press advocates say it could have a chilling effect on freedom of the press in the U.S. Iowa Public Radio's Clay Masters has been covering the trial today. Hey there, Clay. CLAY MASTERS, BYLINE: Hello. KELLY: So set the stage for us. What exactly happened to Sahouri last May? MASTERS: On May 31, Sahouri was covering one of the many protests in Des Moines that followed the murder of George Floyd. This one was outside a mall on the north side of town. It was very tense. She did not have a press badge on her. Another journalist from the Des Moines Register was with her and was not arrested. Sahouri was able to record herself on a smartphone soon after she was apprehended by police. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED
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