OTTAWA –
Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Leach is scheduled to appear in an Ottawa court today for a bail hearing after she was arrested last week for allegedly violating one of her bail conditions.
She was arrested in Medicine Hat, Alta., where she lives, on a Canadian arrest warrant requested by Ottawa police.
Police transported her to the capital and she appeared briefly before an Ottawa judge on Thursday before remaining in custody over the weekend.
Leach was a key figure in the mass protest that gripped the capital’s central streets for more than three weeks in February.
She and fellow protest organizer Chris Barber are jointly charged with mischief, obstructing police, advising others to commit mischief and intimidation.
She was released with a long list of conditions, including a ban on all social media and an order not to support anything related to the Freedom Convoy.
Police did not say which condition she was accused of violating.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published on July 5, 2022.
This story was produced with the financial assistance of Meta and the Canadian Press News Fellowship.
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