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LOS ANGELES, May 22: Six French journalists were handcuffed, body searched and locked up before being kicked out of the United States after arriving in Los Angeles to cover a video games trade show with the wrong travel documents, a watchdog said on Wednesday.
A US immigration official confirmed that the journalists, who arrived in two groups on May 10 and May 11, had been searched, handcuffed and detained in a holding cell.
“These reporters were treated like criminals — subjected to several body searches, handcuffed and locked up,” Reporters Without Borders wrote to US Ambassador Howard Leach.—Reuters
