Vice News national security reporter and associate editor Ben Makuch was in Russia working on a story when he got a cryptic message from his colleagues in Toronto. It wasn’t until he arrived back in the city in late February 2015 that he found out what had happened—the RCMP were demanding that he hand over all of his notes and records of communications relating to several interviews he had conducted with a member of the Islamic State.
The irony of having a Canadian police force request his notes while he was in a country where press freedoms are repressed was not lost on Makuch.
“To know that it can happen in your country was something that was a bit shocking for me and a bit dismaying,” he told J-Source. But he isn’t giving the RCMP anything if he can help it. In January, Vice and Makuch will head to an Ontario courtroom to defend his right to protect his materials.
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