Montreal activist arrested during G20 will avoid time behind bars
Posted June 21, 2011 5:20 pm.
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A Montreal activist who was arrested during the G20 summit in Toronto last year has been sentenced Tuesday.
Jaggi Singh was arrested after encouraging protestors to tear down the security fence.
Cheers greeted the unrepentant G20 protestor outside the old city hall courts after a judge decided on no jail time despite the crown’s call for six months behind bars.
“I feel tearing down the security fence wasn’t a call to violence,” Singh explained. “It was a justifiable action in the face of the policies of the G20 and i stand by that.”
Instead of jail time, Singh has been given 75 hours of community service and one year probation.
The judge said appropriate punishment would have been 60 to 90 days behind bars but the Montreal activist was given credit for time already served.
Over half of the charges laid during the G20 have now been dropped.
As well Tuesday, Premier Dalton McGuinty would not apologize for the way the police handled the summit.
