On Monday, a lawyer for Tamara Lich, one of the leading figures in the trucking protests, including the one that paralyzed downtown Ottawa for three weeks earlier this year, confirmed her arrest for violating the terms of her release.
For their part, Ottawa police confirmed on Twitter that they were behind a Canada-wide warrant for the organizer and that Ms. Lich will be brought back to Ottawa to appear in court
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Tamara Lich’s arrest took place Monday in Medicine Hat, southern Alberta. The Medicine Hat Police Department said Tamara Lich had a bail hearing at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday morning.
The judge ordered six days in pretrial detention, according to a Medicine Hat police statement, but Tamara Lich is scheduled to appear in the province where the alleged breach of conditions took place.
The statement, however, does not specify which bail conditions Tamara Lich violated.
Tamara Lich was released from prison in March. His release conditions notably prohibit him from using social networks, organizing demonstrations or contacting several of the other organizers of the trucking convoys.
Tamara Lich is charged with mischief, encouraging others to commit mischief, obstructing police work, encouraging others to obstruct police work, encouraging others to intimidate and intimidate by blocking and obstructing one or more highways in connection with its participation in the trucker protests.
Possible prohibited contact with another organizer
While it’s unclear which bail conditions Tamara Lich is accused of breaching, an image circulating on social media appears to show her alongside another convoy organizer who a judge ordered her to stand apart.
In March, Ms Lich was informed that she had been selected as the winner of a freedom prize, awarded by the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), a Calgary-based legal group registered as a charity.
On June 17, the day after the Freedom Awards ceremony in Toronto, Stacey Kauder, who describes herself as a friend of Tamara Lich, posted on her Facebook page a photo of her with her husband and four other participants at the gala JCCF.
To her left is a man identified in the Facebook post as Tom Marazzo, another convoy organizer with whom she was ordered not to have contact except in the presence of her lawyer.
Friends of the two convoy organizers speculated on social media that Tamara Lich had the right to contact Tom Marazzo at the event due to the presence of lawyers from the JCCF who also represent Tamara Lich in her civil cases.
With information from Paula Duhatschek and Meghan Grant
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