[IPSM] Shawn Brant: Bail Denied

[stef at tao.ca]

Below is a mainstream press article about today's review, just to let
people know that Shawn remains in prison. Further response to today's
events will be forthcoming, so please stay posted to find out what you can
do ...

In the meantime, letters of respect and support can be sent to:

Shawn Brant
Quinte Detention Centre
89 Richmond Blvd
Napanee, Ontario
K7R 3S1

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Bail denied for native protester Shawn Brant
CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, August 10, 2007

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=26645892-4466-48e8-8c34-46e05d4a826c&k=73420

NAPANEE, Ont. - Shawn Brant, whose road blockades in June sparked the
closure of crucial highways and rail lines in Ontario, has been sent back
to jail after his appeal for bail was denied in Ontario Court on Friday.

The native protester had been applying for bail so he could return to his
family after spending more than a month in custody at the Quinte
provincial detention centre in Napanee, Ont.

Brant turned himself in to Ontario Provincial Police on July 5 in Napanee,
Ont., where he faced charges of mischief and breach of recognizance,
stemming from the June 29 protests.

The OPP had issued an arrest warrant for Brant, a spokesman for protesters
from the Tyendinaga Mohawk reserve in eastern Ontario, for his part in
organizing blockades on rail lines and on Ontario Highways 401 and 2.

The protests, related to the Assembly of First Nations national day of
action, halted CN rail service on its Montreal-Toronto corridor because of
a blockade on the tracks at Marysville, Ont.

Brant, 43, was also under a number of bail orders related to earlier
protests that were conducted by the Mohawks from Tyendinaga.

He is scheduled to appear in Ontario Court Aug. 27, for a preliminary
hearing into those charges, a court worker said Friday.