Canadian reporter Ed Ou barred entry from US - (He was headed to Standing Rock)

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Canadian reporter Ed Ou barred entry from US

By Robin Levinson-King
BBC News, Toronto
3 hours ago

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The award-winning Canadian photojournalist has spent the past decade travelling to the kinds of places where being in the media can be a hazard to your health: Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Egypt and Turkey, to name a few.

So when he booked a flight last October to the US from Canada to cover the Standing Rock pipeline protests in North Dakota for the Canadian Broadcasting Company, he was relieved to be somewhere with press freedoms.

"In my mind I had nothing to hide, (America) is actually one of the few places in the world where you can just say you're a journalist," he told the BBC.

But when he told US border officials at the Vancouver airport he was travelling to North Dakota to cover Standing Rock, he says they pulled him aside and proceeded to interrogate him for six hours. When he refused to unlock his mobile on the grounds that it contained confidential information about sources, they forcibly took his SIM cards and made copies of his reporter's notebook and personal diary.

Then they barred him from entering the US.

Read more:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38187258