Pro-Palestine activists were released on Tuesday after being arrested on charges of mischief and criminal harassment following a confrontation with Immigration Minister Marc Miller and staff.
The defendants’ lawyer Barbara Bedont, described the incident in question to reporters as a “peaceful protest,” in which activists tried to shame the minister for the Liberals’ policy in Gaza when he was in Verdun on Sept. 5. She said her clients plan to fight the charges.
One of the activists, Samar Elkahlout (who also goes by her maiden name, Alkhdour), has garnered mass community support for her sit-ins outside the immigration minister’s office after her daughter Jana died in Gaza this winter awaiting a visa to come to Canada. Roughly 100 supporters were present in and around the courthouse on Tuesday.
Marc Miller’s office did not respond to a request for comment from CKUT.
