Fri Mar 25, 2022 – 3:58 pm EDTFri Mar 25, 2022 – 4:42 pm EDT
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — Organizers of the anti-COVID mandate “Freedom Convoy” protest now face up to five years in prison after police came up with several additional charges.
Despite the non-violent nature of the “Freedom Convoy” demonstration that occurred in Ottawa for three weeks earlier this year in protest of COVID restrictions, two of the primary organizers, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, have now been hit with six additional charges and if convicted, could face five years in prison.
The new charges the two organizers jointly face are mischief, counselling mischief, intimidation, counselling intimidation, counselling obstruction of police, and obstructing police.
According to the CBC, the charges stem from the “blocking and obstructing [of] one or more highways” in defiance of police and government dictates telling the protesters to go home.
While both Lich and Barber have been released from jail on bail since their arrests, Lich was initially denied bail by a judge who had previously run as a Liberal Party Candidate, causing some people to accuse Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government of holding her as a
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