Canada - Journalist's home searched, confidentiality of sources threatened

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is stunned and alarmed to learn that police yesterday raided the home of Journal de Montréal reporter Éric-Yvan Lemay, taking his finger prints, his computer and the clothes he wore while visiting Montreal area hospitals last month for a story about confidential patient records being left in hospital corridors where anyone can look at them The raid was the result of a complaint by one of the hospitals accusing Lemay of “theft of property worth less than $5,000” and (...)

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