Activist finds big supporters
The Canadian Press
Oct 15, 2010 04:38:18 AM
A Toronto law professor calls bail conditions handed to an alleged G20 protest ringleader ''astonishing'' and unheard of in modern-day Canada.
Alex Hundert - a Laurier grad - faces three counts of conspiracy tied to G20 activities at the June summit in Toronto and was released in July on $100,000 bail.
But on September 17, Hundert was arrested at a panel discussion at Ryerson University for allegedly violating his bail conditions.
On Wednesday, he agreed to new, more stringent bail conditions, which a judge said included a ban on Hundert speaking to the media.
Osgoode Hall law professor Alan Young says this is ''basically putting a gag order on a citizen of Canada'' and that the court has gone too far.
Hundert's lawyer, John Norris, says he's ''never seen that before,'' and plans to appeal Hundert's initial arrest as well as the newest rules put on his client.
Nathalie Des Rosiers, of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, says they plan to write the Attorney General in Hundert's defence.
She says these bail conditions ''are only aimed at silencing speech.''