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Charges Dropped Against 22 Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders

HeadlineJun 08, 2020

In more news from Canada, charges were dropped last week against 22 Wet’suwet’en land defenders and their allies, who were arrested this past February in northern British Columbia after a days-long raid in Indigenous territories where hereditary chiefs have been in a protracted battle to protect their land from the construction of TransCanada’s 400-mile, $4.7 billion Coastal GasLink pipeline.

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