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Category / Incidents / Arrest/criminal charge

  • April 15, 2024
    Arrest/criminal charge

    CUTV journalist arrested in Montreal

    Montreal police arrested CUTV journalist Savanna Craig while she was covering a pro-Palestinian protest inside a Scotiabank in downtown Montreal.

  • January 10, 2024
    Arrest/criminal charge

    Edmonton police arrest Ricochet journalist during encampment eviction

    Edmonton police officers arrested Ricochet journalist Brandi Morin while she was reporting on the forced eviction of people, many of them Indigenous, living in an encampment in a vacant lot east of the city’s downtown. 

  • December 20, 2023
    Arrest/criminal charge

    OPP detain and seize equipment from Guelph journalist

    An OPP officer detained GuelphToday journalist Richard Vivian and seized his equipment while Vivian was reporting on a vehicle collision in Guelph, Ontario.

  • October 12, 2023
    Arrest/criminal charge

    Canadian journalist convicted of ‘disseminating false information’ in Greece

    Freelance journalist Romain Chauvet was convicted of “disseminating false information” and received a six-month suspended jail sentence in Greece, after authorities claimed he made a bomb threat at an airport. 

  • November 19, 2021
    Arrest/criminal charge

    RCMP arrest and detain photojournalist and documentary filmmaker during pipeline protest on Wet’suwet’en territory

    RCMP officers arrested and detained photojournalist Amber Bracken and documentary filmmaker Michael Toledano during a land rights protest on Wet’suwet’en territory.

  • November 19, 2021
    Arrest/criminal charge

    RCMP arrest and detain documentary filmmaker and photojournalist during pipeline protest on Wet’suwet’en territory

    RCMP officers arrested and detained documentary filmmaker Michael Toledano and photojournalist Amber Bracken during a land rights protest on Wet’suwet’en territory.

  • November 18, 2021
    Arrest/criminal charge

    Journalist arrested during pipeline protest in Wet’suwet’en territory

    RCMP officers arrested journalist and documentary filmmaker Melissa Cox, who was covering demonstrations against the Coastal GasLink pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory in northern British Columbia on Nov. 18, 2021.

  • August 10, 2021
    Arrest/criminal charge

    Victoria Buzz photographer arrested at Fairy Creek blockades

    RCMP officers arrested photojournalist Colin Smith, who was on assignment for Victoria Buzz covering protests against old-growth logging near Fairy Creek on Vancouver Island on Aug. 10, 2021.

  • July 20, 2021
    Arrest/criminal charge

    Photojournalist detained while covering encampment clearing in Toronto’s Alexandra Park

    City of Toronto corporate security arrested Chris Young, a photojournalist on assignment for the Canadian Press, on July 20, 2021.

  • June 22, 2021
    Arrest/criminal charge

    Photojournalist detained while covering police clearing encampments in Toronto park Trinity Bellwoods

    Toronto Police detained and confiscated the equipment of photojournalist Ian Willms while he was covering the eviction of people living in an encampment in Trinity Bellwoods Park.

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