The lawsuit seeks a court declaration that Amber Bracken's constitutional rights were unlawfully breached in November 2021, when police arrested her during an operation to enforce an injunction granted to the company building the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
The lawsuit seeks a court declaration that Bracken's constitutional rights to liberty and freedom of the press were unlawfully breached in November 2021, when police arrested her during an operation to enforce an injunction granted to the company building the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
Linnitt told a press conference outside B.C. Supreme Court that Bracken's arrest was the latest in "a string of incidents that display a troubling lack of regard for freedom of the press by Canadian police," including previous arrests of journalists at Indigenous-led protests in Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Bracken says she was in Wet'suwet'en territory on what she thought would be a preliminary reporting trip to visit several camps set up by those opposed to the natural gas pipeline, but unbeknownst to her, tensions had been escalating. Although Bracken says she immediately told them she was a journalist, she was arrested and remained in custody for three nights.
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