{"id":5884,"date":"2010-10-16T12:30:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T16:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5884"},"modified":"2010-10-16T12:32:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T16:32:11","slug":"court-makes-a-mockery-of-freedom-of-speech-in-bail-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/16\/court-makes-a-mockery-of-freedom-of-speech-in-bail-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Court makes a mockery of “freedom of speech” in bail conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not particularly fond of the organizers of the G20 protests (see the general tone of my posts during the G20 meetings<\/a> for proof), but this court decision<\/a> is obscene<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Alex Hundert\u2019s words will not appear in this story.<\/p>\n

Unlike other Canadians, he\u2019s not allowed to speak to the press.<\/p>\n

At least that\u2019s how a court interpreted the new bail conditions placed on Hundert, an accused ringleader of violence during the G20 summit in June.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s staggering in its breadth,\u201d said John Norris, Hundert\u2019s lawyer. \u201cI\u2019ve never heard of anything as broad as that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hundert, 30, faces three counts of conspiracy pertaining to G20 activities, and was released in July on $100,000 bail with about 20 terms, including not participating in any public demonstration.<\/p>\n

Shortly after his release, the Crown filed an appeal to revoke his bail. Superior Court Justice Todd Ducharme ruled against that appeal.<\/p>\n

On Sept. 17, shortly after Ducharme\u2019s decision, Hundert was arrested for participating in a panel discussion at Ryerson University — which police deemed to be a public demonstration.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday Hundert agreed to the new, more stringent, bail conditions.<\/p>\n

They include a clarification of the no-demonstration rule, to include a restriction on planning, participating in, or attending any public event that expresses views on a political issue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is just wrong<\/em>. No government or court should have this power: he’s an accused criminal, but he has not been convicted of a crime. This is an unjustifiable restriction of his freedom and should never have been imposed.<\/p>\n

H\/T to Darian Worden<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not particularly fond of the organizers of the G20 protests (see the general tone of my posts during the G20 meetings for proof), but this court decision is obscene: Alex Hundert\u2019s words will not appear in this story. Unlike other Canadians, he\u2019s not allowed to speak to the press. At least that\u2019s how a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,10,53],"tags":[52,343,186,578,207],"class_list":["post-5884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","category-liberty","category-politics","tag-absurd","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-g20","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1wU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5884"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5888,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions\/5888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}