A Wet'suwet'en leader and two other pipeline opponents have been given suspended jail sentences and community service for breaking an injunction against blocking work on the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
“Historically, this type of suspended sentence was akin to a form of judicial clemency,” said B.C. Supreme Court Justice Michael Tammen on Friday.
“In this case, it is appropriate to extend such judicial clemency, in part based on the need to foster reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.”
Sleydo', also known as Molly Wickham, a wing chief of Cas Yikh, a house group of the Gidimt'en Clan of the Wet'suwet'en Nation, Shaylynn Sampson, a Gitxsan woman with Wet'suwet'en family ties, and Corey Jocko, who is Kanien'kehá:ka from Akwesasne, were found guilty of criminal contempt in January 2024.
They were arrested in November 2021 at a blockade on Wet’suwet’en traditional territory for breaking a 2019 injunction against people blocking work on the Coastal G
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