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Welcome to the police state, where journalists are intimidated and arrested by police for covering sensitive topics. Just days after arresting independent journalist Miles Howe, the RCMP are now threatening mainstream journalists with arrest if they are within a quarter of a kilometre from seismic testing in NB. Halifax Media Co-op journalist Miles Howe was released by police Wednesday (November 27) after his third arrest at a Indigenous First Nation anti-fracking protest in the Atlantic coast province of New Brunswick. When Howe was arrested in October, Pen Canada, the writers’ organisation fighting for free expression around the world, condemned his arrest. In a press release on October 23, 2013 the organisation said it was “concerned with the wrongful treatment of journalists during recent anti-fracking protests at Elsipogtog, New Brunswick.”...
Posted on: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 18:02:38 +0000

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