My Brother Was Sentenced to 30 Years for Moving a Box of Zines

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In a New Republic interview, Ana Bell tells Melissa Gira Grant that her brother Daniel Sanchez Estrada, an artist and father, was sentenced to 30 years in the Prairieland case after the government alleged he moved a box of zines from the Fort Worth home he shared with co-defendant Maricela Rueda, who faces 70 years. Ana Bell calls the case a war on free speech and describes a raid on her parents' home that took her late sister's phone and her father's trucking log tablet, cutting his income.

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