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Toronto G20 Protest Leader Arrested for Panel Appearance

HeadlineSep 22, 2010

In Canada, a leader of the June protests against the G20 summit in Toronto has been arrested for speaking at a public event on a college campus. Toronto police say Alex Hundert’s appearance on a panel violated one of his bail conditions that he not take part in a political rally. Hundert recently spoke out about his bail conditions in an interview with Submedia TV.

Alex Hundert: “No, I don’t think so. I mean, I don’t — on the one hand, I don’t think it’s — I don’t think there’s anything wrong with refusing to be silenced. I think that’s really important. But, I mean, it’s also being done under the conditions where I recognize what the police are doing, that there is no actual breach of my conditions. They’re trying to scare us. It’s standard harassment and intimidation. And again, that’s something that the police do all the time. The police are always intimidating and harassing people and their communities when people are, you know, saying things that the police don’t want them to say.”

Hundert must remain in jail until his next bail hearing two weeks from today.

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