Canadian Journalists Detention at U.S. Border Raises Press Freedom Alarms

[inanna]

Source: New York Times

DEC. 2, 2016

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Mr. Ou, 30, said he was detained on Oct. 1 for more than six hours when he tried to fly from Vancouver, B.C., to Bismarck, N.D., to cover the protests of an oil pipeline project near the Standing Rock reservation.

He was ultimately denied entry, and he said though he was not given a reason, he was told his name matched that of a “person of interest.” During the hours of detention, he was asked to describe how and why he had traveled to each country he had visited in the past five years, and questioned about whether he had seen anyone die.

Agents requested access to his phones and to look through his photos so that they could make sure he was “not posing next to any dead bodies,” he said. When he refused, citing the need to protect his sources as a journalist, they took the phones, he said.

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Mr. Ou was assigned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to cover the Standing Rock protests as part of a project on indigenous health care in North America. He said the agents knew he intended to cover the protests, which have prompted the police to use rubber bullets, pepper spray and water cannons against hundreds of people.




Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/business/media/canadian-journalists-detention-at-us-border-raises-press-freedom-alarms.html?_r=0

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Those secret list of names sure do come in handy..

as does the vague excuse for one's name being on them.

We DID raise alarms about Homeland Sec. way back when.....anyone remember that?

[annabanana]

2. very very disturbing. . .n/t

[kebob]

3. Bout Him Oooot!

Couldn't resist. Sorry. Atoning with a Rec.

[inanna]

5. ...

[angstlessk]

6. I would bet you all of trumps gazzillions, that if....

everyone on the no fly list would be refused the ability to purchase guns, the no fly list could be enumerated on an index card!

[mahina]

7. +100

[Amimnoch]

8. Correction:

The number of WASP's would be able to fit on an index card, and every ethnic name ever named would be on the list.

[Lokilooney]

9. No

I was assured that only scary terrorists are on the no fly list, he was no doubt trying to kill the pilots by tricking them into looking directly into the face of god on his phone, yikes! Yes, this why we need to tie in whether or or not the constitution applies to a secret government list of names...

[heaven05]

10. its starting

[moonscape]

11. And it's not even 1/21/17 yet n/t

[FiveGoodMen]

12. Let's remember who was in charge

On October 1st, no one even thought that Trump would be elected.

This crap started with Bush but has continued ever since under Obama.

The people we LIKE have been letting us down. (Of COURSE now it will get much worse)

[Sunlei]

13. state governments have blocked 'some' journalists & ignored freedom of the press rights for years.

state government local authorities work hand in hand with federal authorities to block access, threaten or even outright arrest journalists.

We've seen them do it many times. Use private land to block access to public land, put a local sheriff on access road and deny access.

Set press behind a huge hill so they can't get any view of what they came to report on.

Take cameras and devices and return them broken.

Send out an employee who knows nothing to answer press questions.

Close public lands and arrest anyone on it for trespassing.

Make press come to office at 4am to be guided by armed guards to area they want to report on.

Threaten to punch a journalist for asking a question (Salazar did this)

follow & threaten a journalists car with a helicopter.

list can be much longer....