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Trespassing Charges Against US Journalist 'Reflect Attempt to Muzzle Media'

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Prosecutors in the US state of North Dakota should immediately drop all criminal charges against broadcast and internet journalist Amy Goodman, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in a press release.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The warrant, issued last Thursday, followed the filming by a crew from Goodman’s "Democracy Now" program of security guards using dogs and pepper spray to disperse protesters seeking to stop the construction of a 1,100-mile pipeline through four states, the release explained.

"This arrest warrant is a transparent attempt to intimidate reporters from covering protests of significant public interest," the CPJ’s senior program coordinator for the Americas, Carlos Lauría, said in the release on Monday.

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"I was doing my job by covering pipeline guards unleashing dogs and pepper spray on Native American protesters," the release quoted Goodman as saying.

Members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe have engaged in frequent protests to block the pipeline, which they claim endangers the nearby Missouri River as well as land that the tribe considers sacred.

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