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An abuse of process hearing for three people found guilty of criminal contempt of court for blocking work on the Coastal GasLink pipeline in November 2021 is being adjourned until June.

A police officer told a judge Tuesday that RCMP were worried about weapons, booby traps and partly felled trees when enforcing an injunction against blockades of construction work on the Coastal GasLink pipeline in November 2021. 

RCMP officers referred to First Nations pipeline opponents as "orcs" and "ogre" during a police raid at a blockade of Coastal GasLink pipeline construction in November 2021, according to audio recordings played in court Wednesday.

The defence argued that one of the accused, Corey Jocko, did not have sufficient knowledge of the extent of the injunction prior to arrest.

The judge will now hear their applications of abuse of process, as the three accused allege the RCMP used excessive force when they were arrested and that they were treated unfairly while in custody.

Two RCMP officers were called to the stand in the trial for three prominent land defenders charged with contempt of court for participating in the blockade of the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

Sleydo’, also known as Molly Wickham, is among three defendants charged with criminal contempt of court for blocking access to the Coastal GasLink pipeline in defiance of a court order.

A new report by Amnesty International traces the years-long campaign of violence, harassment, discrimination, and dispossession against Indigenous Wet’suwet’en land defenders resisting the construction of Coastal GasLink (CGL) liquified natural gas pipeline through their unceded ancestral territory without their free, prior and informed consent. The report’s launch coincides with the 27th anniversary of the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Delgamuukw v British Columbia, a ruling whi...

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