RCMP officers refused to allow a CBC vehicle through a checkpoint on a road leading to a protest site near Fairy Creek, forcing the crew to make a 14-kilometre round-trip hike to access the area.
RCMP officers threatened to arrest and denied access to journalists Clay Nikiforuk and Aleisha Langmann, who were on assignment for Ricochet Media covering logging protests in Fairy Creek.
RCMP officers threatened to arrest and denied access to journalists Aleisha Langmann and Clay Nikiforuk, who were on assignment for Ricochet Media covering logging protests in Fairy Creek.
The RCMP arrested and removed a protester during demonstrations against old-growth logging in the forest near Fairy Creek, B.C., after telling journalists to leave the area and that enforcement had ended for the day.
Ricochet Media reporters Jerome Turner and Michael Simkin were denied access to an area where RCMP were conducting enforcement of the Fairy Creek demonstrations on May 27, 2021.
Ricochet Media reporters Michael Simkin and Jerome Turner were denied access to an area where RCMP were conducting enforcement of the Fairy Creek demonstrations on May 27, 2021.
RCMP delayed press entry to a protest site near Port Renfrew, B.C. on May 26, 2021, where media later learned that officers were arresting protesters.
BC RCMP officers threatened to arrest media workers including Global News journalist Paul Johnson, and denied them access to an area where police expected to arrest people protesting old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island.
Ha-Shilth-Sa Newspaper journalist Melissa Renwick was temporarily denied access to an area where an RCMP raid was taking place at the Caycuse camp near Honeymoon Bay, B.C., on May 25, 2021.
Ricochet Media journalist Michael Simkin was temporarily denied access to an area where an RCMP raid was taking place at the Caycuse camp near Honeymoon Bay, B.C., on May 25, 2021.