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  "description": "The maximum sentence for the crime is ten years imprisonment.",
  "path": "/read-the-don-lemon-indictment/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-08T14:44:44.000Z",
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    "Section 241 of Title 18: conspiracy against rights",
    "Federal agents arrest journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for filming protest at St. Paul church",
    "UPDATED: CPJ condemns arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort over Minnesota protests coverage - Committee to Protect JournalistsCPJ is continuing to provide updates on this case. Last updated at 6:23 PM ET, adding details throughout. Washington, D.C., January 30, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) strongly condemns the arrests and extraordinary felony charges of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for their reporting on a protest in Minnesota, marking a serious escalation…Committee to Protect Journalists"
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  "textContent": "The indictment against former CNN anchor and independent journalist Don Lemon was made public last week.\n\nLemon, along with eight others, was charged on a single count of violating Section 241 of Title 18: conspiracy against rights. The law establishes that a crime is committed \"if two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State...in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.\"\n\nThe maximum sentence for the crime is ten years imprisonment.\n\nThe indictment claims the Lemon violated the right to free exercise to religion when he filmed a protest in a Minnesota church. The protest was against the pastor, who works for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. (Federal agents arrest journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for filming protest at St. Paul church).\n\n\"As a result of defendants' conduct, the pastor and congregation were forced to terminate the Church's worship service, congregates fled the Church building out of fear for their safety, other congregants took steps to implement an emergency plan, and young children were left to wonder, as one child put it, if their parents were going to die,\" the indictment says.\n\nThe Committee to Protect Journalists denounced the arrest as an attack on the press.\n\nUPDATED: CPJ condemns arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort over Minnesota protests coverage - Committee to Protect JournalistsCPJ is continuing to provide updates on this case. Last updated at 6:23 PM ET, adding details throughout. Washington, D.C., January 30, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) strongly condemns the arrests and extraordinary felony charges of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for their reporting on a protest in Minnesota, marking a serious escalation…Committee to Protect Journalists\n\nThe other defendants include journalist Georgia Fort and six protestors.",
  "title": "Read the Don Lemon indictment",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-26T00:25:22.089Z"
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