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Foreign E3 Journalists Body Searched, Deported

Posted by simoniker on from the sonic-and-mario-brandishing-rubber-gloves dept.

Thanks to Janko for pointing out a press release at Reporters Without Borders denouncing the US authorities for deporting French games journalists sent to cover E3. The complaint alleges that "..these journalists were treated like criminals - subjected to several body searches, handcuffed, locked up and fingerprinted", after arriving in Los Angeles on (arguably misleading) tourist visas to cover the E3 trade show. It doesn't seem to have been just the French, either - messageboard reports indicate at least 5 British journalists from a variety of publications had a similar treatment. Who'd have thought attending E3 could be so.. dangerous?

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  1. French? by isorox · · Score: 5, Funny

    Surely you mean Freedom journalists?

  2. Games on the Brain! by jpsowin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, we all know that games cause violence, and foreigners are terrorists (especially when our alert is on HIGH!). So if you have people coming overseas coming to a large game conference....

    Sorry. I just couldn't resist. :D

  3. Re:Jeez by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, they lost a glove on the first one, and it took a bit of poking around to find it again...

  4. Yeah right, this is about games, uh huh by WolfWithoutAClause · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ok, let's get this straight. A bunch of journalists try to enter America without the proper paperwork, and get this, they get locked up and then deported! What a tyrannical government! It's an outrage I tell you! An outrage!

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    -WolfWithoutAClause

    "Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"
  5. My bad... by Scorchio · · Score: 5, Funny

    I slipped the authorities £20 to intercept my manager and lead designer, who got to go to the show. I think my descriptions must have been a little vague.

  6. After all... by keiferb · · Score: 3, Funny

    We -are- at a terrorism level of "Taupe" in the US. That means the "authorities" can do whatever they want to whomever they want. God bless taupe.