Thu May 19, 2022 – 5:27 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Crown prosecutors in Canada want to send Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich back to jail after being granted bail because she accepted a “Freedom Award” from a constitutional legal rights group.
According to CTV News, the Crown prosecution on Lich’s case filed an application ahead of her upcoming bail review hearing to argue that Lich’s acceptance of the “George Jonas Freedom Award” set to be given by the Justice Centre of Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) at a gala on June 16 is a “violation” of her bail conditions, and therefore she should be put back in jail.
The Crown claims that her bail condition prohibiting her from “verbally, in writing, financially, or by any other means, supporting anything related to the Freedom Convoy” was violated by her accepting of the award, despite the fact that the Freedom Convoy itself is no longer active.
“Tamara Lich has continued her support of the Convoy cause with the assistance of Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms,” the Crown’s application says, referring to the gala’s promotional material that paints the Freedom Convoy protest and Lich’s role in the event in a positive light.
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