Equipment Search or Seizure

Total cases	43

Photojournalist questioned at San Ysidro border, separated from camera

February 21, 2019

On Jan. 4, freelance photojournalist Ariana Drehsler was stopped at the U.S.-Mexico border and subjected to secondary screening measures for …

Two photojournalists stopped at US-Mexico border for secondary screening

February 15, 2019

Bing Guan and Go Nakamura, American photojournalists, were pulled into secondary screening on Dec. 29, 2018, while driving through the …

Filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky has device taken and searched upon arrival in U.S.

January 30, 2019

While flying from the United Kingdom into the United States on Dec. 23, 2018, filmmaker and director Saeed Taji Farouky …

Milwaukee reporter arrested, interrogated, and asked to delete photographs

December 10, 2018

On August 5, 2018, Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service reporter Edgar Mendez photographed Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) squad cars outside a …

Photojournalist Michael Nigro arrested while covering protest in Missouri

June 14, 2018

Michael Nigro, a freelance photojournalist on assignment for Truthdig, was arrested while covering a Poor People’s Campaign demonstration in Jefferson …

Al Jazeera journalist stopped and questioned at JFK airport

October 22, 2018

Mhamed Krichen, anchor and program host for Al Jazeera and board member for the Committee to Protect Journalists, was stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection when flying in to JFK Airport in New York, on May 23, 2018.Krichen — who has previously reported for Reuters, Radio Tunis, MBC, and BBC Arabic — was flying to New York from Doha, Qatar, in order to attend a CPJ board meeting. He landed at the airport at around 8:45 a.m. He said …