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Indigenous reporter fears more journalists will be targeted after arrest as police cleared Canada camp

Canadian journalist Brandi Morin was arrested and charged with obstruction while covering a police operation to clear a camp. Photograph: Geordie Day

Brandi Morin was charged while reporting at encampment authorities arrived at to dismantle and could face two years in jail

Leyland Cecco in Toronto

A journalist in Canada who was arrested and charged while reporting on a police operation to clear an encampment for unhoused Indigenous people says she fears the charges will chill further reporting of marginalized groups.

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African writer ruined by row with Graham Greene finally gets chance to shine

Malian writer Yambo Ouologuem in France in November 1968. Photograph: Yves Le Roux/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

Fifty years after being accused of plagiarism, book is reissued in a bid to rehabilitate gifted Malian author Yambo Ouologuem

Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent

In 1968 the books pages of the French newspaper Le Monde excitedly praised an uncompromising new novel, Bound to Violence, going on to salute its author as one of “the rare intellectuals of international stature presented to the world by Black Africa”.

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‘Like being buried alive’: Australian journalist Cheng Lei on life in a Chinese prison

Cheng Lei said Chinese prison makes ‘you feel isolated, and bored and pained and desperate’. Photograph: Sarah Hodges/Australia's Department of Foreig/AFP/Getty Images

Reporter reveals she was arrested for breaking a news embargo, and talks about how she survived months in solitary confinement

Cait Kelly

Australian journalist Cheng Lei spent almost three years in China’s prison system for breaking an embargo by a few minutes, she has revealed in her first interview after returning home to Melbourne last week.… Read the rest

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