30-year sentence for transporting zines sparks free speech alarm in the US

Daniel Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in prison for transporting zines — small self-published booklets — to the Prairieland private immigration detention centre in Texas. The case has raised serious alarm among free speech advocates, who see it as a major threat to the right to information inside private detention facilities. Civil liberties commentators describe it as a five-alarm warning for press and free speech freedoms in the United States.

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