Fri Sep 1, 2023 – 5:09 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – The four-week-long trial for Canadian Freedom Convoy leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber is set to begin on September 5 in an Ottawa courthouse close to where the protests against COVID mandates took place.
The Democracy Fund (TDF), in a press release Thursday, noted that Lich’s trial will be a “significant moment in Canada’s legal and social landscape.”
In early 2022, the “Freedom Convoy” of thousands of Canadians from coast to coast rallied to Ottawa demanding an end to COVID mandates in all forms. The peaceful protest was unprecedented in Canadian history.
According to Alan Honner, TDF’s director of litigation, “Tamara’s prosecution shows how a prominent political dissident is treated by our justice system.”
“Many people see Tamara as a political prisoner as her prosecution has been impassioned, and she has already been imprisoned for 49 days on relatively minor charges,” he noted. “The trucker convoy exposed the government’s willingness to invoke extraordinary powers to suppress a nationwide protest that was remarkably peaceful.”
A team of TDF lawyers will be providing “daily real-time insights and updates directly from the courtroom throughout Tamara’s four-week trial.”
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