Activist Jaggi Singh took advantage of the stop Jordan

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Activist Jaggi Singh

Nicolas Saillant

Thursday, 15 February 2018 19:44

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Thursday, 15 February 2018 19:48

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Arrested and charged during a demonstration by pro-immigration in Montréal in may 2016, the activist Jaggi Singh has been cleared of all charges in a trial, without a lawyer, the judgment in Jordan.

May 3, 2016, sixty protesters had burst into the offices of the border services Agency of Canada, St-Antoine street in Montreal to protest against the ” violence of the deportations “.

After you have entered in the offices and cause a lot of trouble, a score of protesters, Jaggi Singh, had been arrested, refusing to leave the premises.

Alone

The demonstrator notorious had been accused of mischief, assault and unlawful assembly. Choosing to defend himself, Mr Singh has, therefore, stands alone, while the protesters arrested at the same time are represented by a lawyer.

Quickly, a complex debate on the fingerprints, that the accused refused to provide was transported to the superior Court, the crown considered that the judge of the municipal Court had exceeded its jurisdiction. However, this procedure of nine months, finally lost by the prosecutor, has been credited to the charge of the prosecution.

Time of 20 months

During this time, Jaggi Sing insisted at least three times to speed up the procedures ” as quickly as possible “, referring always to the violation of his rights. Thus, the 8 November last, while the time since his arrest in were 17 months without a trial date has still been set, Jaggi Singh has made an application to stay proceedings under the judgment in Jordan.

According to the rules of the judgment, the time for this kind of case should be 18 months at the most. With the holding of the trial, the delay would have been more than 20 months. According to the judge, ” there has been no calculation deliberate attempt to delay the trial “. Thus, no time-limit has been assigned to Jaggi Singh.

Last January 24, the demonstrator has thus been freed of the four charges leveled against him.