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    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Brandi Morin, an Indigenous journalist, was arrested on 10 January while documenting police efforts to dismantle the camp in the city of Edmonton.

    A spokesperson for Edmonton police service said officers “repeatedly” directed Morin to an area where other journalists were gathered, warning that she would be arrested if she “refused to comply” with the orders.

    “Canadian law protects journalists from arrest or detention when they are reporting on matters of public interest and not engaged in violent activity or serious attempts to obstruct police,” the group said.

    Morin’s arrest comes as a British Columbia court prepares to consider another lawsuit that could have significant implications for Canadian journalists reporting in areas where police try to limit access.

    Photojournalist Amber Bracken was detained in 2021 while covering a police raid on an Indigenous protest camp in British Columbia.

    Courts in both Newfoundland and Labrador and British Columbia have been critical of how police apply injunction orders and ‘exclusion zones’ to journalists.


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