{"id":54834,"date":"2020-08-26T07:36:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T12:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54834"},"modified":"2020-08-26T07:36:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T12:36:39","slug":"press-groups-slam-deporting-of-danish-journalist-covering-pipeline-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54834","title":{"rendered":"Press Groups Slam Deporting of Danish Journalist Covering Pipeline Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article__header\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"organisms\/article\/article__header\" data-dev-status=\"IN-PROGRESS\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<h3 data-bind=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2020\/08\/26\/Press-Groups-Slam-Deporting-Danish-Journalist\/\">Press Groups Slam Deporting of Danish Journalist Covering Pipeline Fight<\/a><\/h3>\n<p data-bind=\"teaser\"><strong>\u2018Sobering.\u2019 Foreign and Canadian organizations criticize blocked entry to Kristian Lindhart at YVR.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"featured-media\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"02-organisms\/article\/featured-media\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<figure class=\"figure \" data-dev-object-descrip=\"01-molecules\/blocks\/figure\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-img\" src=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2020\/08\/22\/Kristian-Lindhardt.JPG\" alt=\"Kristian-Lindhardt.JPG\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption\">Kristian Lindhart, who works for Denmark\u2019s version of the CBC, wrongly assumed he\u2019d be allowed to continue his ongoing coverage of Indigenous resistance to the TMX pipeline because BC deems journalism an essential service.\u00a0<span class=\"caption__media--credit\">Photo: supplied.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<article class=\"article__body main-col-container\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"organisms\/article\/article__body\" data-dev-status=\"IN-PROGRESS\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid clearfix \">\n<p class=\"lead-in\">Days after a Canadian border guard denied Danish journalist Kristian Lindhardt entry into Vancouver to cover the fight over the Trans Mountain pipeline, journalism associations here and abroad have \u201ccondemned\u201d the deportation as an attack on press freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJournalism is of vital importance particularly in times of crisis. Using COVID as an excuse to block a journalist is simply unacceptable,\u201d said Martin O\u2019Hanlon, president of the Canadian media union CWA Canada, in a statement\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifj.org\/media-centre\/news\/detail\/category\/press-releases\/article\/canada-danish-journalist-covering-indigenous-protests-not-allowed-into-canada.html\">put out<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday by several organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is especially troubling because COVID is now being used by many regimes as yet another way to crack down on press freedom, and Canada should be setting a positive example for the world. We urge the Canada Border Services Agency to reverse this decision,\u201d said the statement.<\/p>\n<p>That was echoed in Europe, where the Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists urged the Canadian government \u201cto clarify the situation and guarantee freedom of information and access rights for foreign journalists.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-box ad-box--bigbox\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"01-molecules\/blocks\/ad-box\" data-dev-status=\"IN-PROGRESS\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic must not be used as an excuse to impede certain media coverages and hamper press freedom,\u201d the organization\u2019s general secretary Anthony Bellanger said in the statement. \u201cThe Canadian authorities haven\u2019t provided a valid explanation to deport Mr. Lindhardt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Groups Slam Deporting of Danish Journalist Covering Pipeline Fight \u2018Sobering.\u2019 Foreign and Canadian organizations criticize blocked entry to Kristian Lindhart at YVR. Kristian Lindhart, who works for Denmark\u2019s version of the CBC, wrongly assumed he\u2019d be allowed to continue his ongoing coverage of Indigenous resistance to the TMX pipeline because BC deems journalism an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[103,30230,12878,462,30231,23884,28713],"class_list":["post-54834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-canada","tag-deportation","tag-geoff-dembicki","tag-journalism","tag-kristian-lindhart","tag-thetyee-ca","tag-tmx-pipeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54835,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54834\/revisions\/54835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}