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An Ottawa newspaper went to court Monday to challenge search warrants used to raid the home and office of one of its reporters.

The case involves RCMP raids in January 2004 that targeted Citizen reporter Juliet O'Neill.

The raids were parts of an investigation into how O'Neill obtained secret RCMP information on Maher Arar, a Canadian man who was imprisoned in Syria after the U.S. accused him of having ties to extremist groups.

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The newspaper is asking for the two search warrants to be overturned, for the law that the warrants were based on be declared unconstitutional, and for the return of O'Neill's seized notes and other materials, Ottawa Citizen deputy editor Drew Gragg told CBC News.

Gragg says the Security of Information Act — the law the RCMP cited to justify their raid — is vague and ambiguous, and that it effectively makes a criminal out of anyone who receives anything that could be deemed secret information.

While she has never been charged with possession of secret documents, O'Neill could face up to 14 years behind bars if she is tried and convicted under the law.

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