Convoy protest organizer Tamara Lich arrested: police

Tamara Lich, a key organizer of the “Freedom Convoy,” has been arrested in Alberta on a Canada-wide warrant for breach of her courtroom circumstances, say Ottawa police.

Lich might be returned to Ottawa to look in courtroom, police stated Tuesday.

Eric Granger, considered one of Lich’s attorneys, confirmed the arrest in an e mail Monday night, and added that they have been awaiting additional particulars, however the arrest gave the impression to be associated to Lich’s bail circumstances.

He couldn’t verify the placement of the arrest, however one other lawyer who has additionally represented Lich, Keith Wilson, stated on Twitter that the arrest occurred Monday in Drugs Hat, Alta., the place she lives.

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Drugs Hat police confirmed the arrest on Tuesday.

A decide initially denied Lich bail after her arrest throughout the huge protest that overtook downtown Ottawa for greater than three weeks in February, however she was launched in March after a evaluation of the courtroom choice.

Lich and fellow protest organizer Chris Barber are collectively accused of mischief, obstructing police, counselling others to commit mischief and intimidation.

She was launched with an extended record of circumstances, together with a ban from all social media and an order to not “help something associated to the Freedom Convoy.”

“We’re not conscious of something that would have prompted this and are stunned by this growth given the latest bail evaluation listening to in Ontario the place Ms. Lich’s constructive file for complying together with her circumstances was one cause why a few of her circumstances have been relaxed at the moment,” Granger wrote in an e mail.

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Trucker protests: Organizer Tamara Lich launched on bail

In Could, an Ontario decide dominated Lich may stay on bail till her trial after a Crown prosecutor argued she’d violated considered one of her bail circumstances by agreeing to simply accept an award for her management throughout the Ottawa protest, and ought to be despatched again behind bars to attend for her courtroom look.

Ontario Superior Courtroom Justice Kevin Phillips stated he made his choice as a result of Lich had adopted her bail circumstances, her surety supervised her properly and he or she’d already had a “style of jail,” which he stated lowered her threat to reoffend.

Phillips amended her launch circumstances to permit her to go to Ottawa, however not the downtown core. He maintained the ban on Lich’s entry to social media, saying that prohibiting such entry remained warranted.