From: squatter (squatter@dds.nl)
Date: 08 Apr 2001 16:39 uur
Meer iets voor een andere lijst dan deze, bijv. de aktielijst, lijkt me.
O.
On Sun, 08 Apr 2001, you wrote:
> Thursday 5 April 2001
>
> Lawyers shun summit
>
> Prosecutors say they're being used to control protest
>
> WILLIAM MARSDEN
> The Gazette
>
> Quebec prosecutors are threatening to quit a special
> eight-member team set up by the provincial government to prosecute
> protesters arrested at the Summit of the Americas this month.
>
> They are objecting to what they claim is political
> interference with the judiciary on the part of summit organizers.
>
> One prosecutor has already left the team, and others
> are expected to follow.
>
> Prosecutors say provincial Justice Minister Paul Begin
> has directed them to delay all bail hearings of arrested protesters
> for the maximum three full days allowed by law, as a way of
> keeping them off the street for the duration of the summit, April
> 20-22.
>
> "This is political interference, and we should not
> stand for it," said one prosecutor who did not wish to be named.
> "It's a plan of battle to hold them in jail. We will not accept these
> directives."
>
> The Criminal Code allows bail hearings to be delayed
> for a maximum of three "clear days" between the day of the arrest and
> the day of the hearing. This means that protesters could find
> themselves behind bars for five days.
>
> Normally, defendants are processed within 24 hours of
> their arrest.Often they are released the same day from a police
> station with a promise to appear in court.
>
> The prosecutors also say they do not want to prosecute
> people who are protesting against repressive governments represented
> at the summit.The Quebec government has built a concrete and
> chain-link fence around a large section of the Old City where the
> summit is to take place. About 25,000 protesters are expected to show
> up.
>
> Jails have been cleared and thousands of police
> officers from the Montreal Urban Community force, the RCMP and the
> Surete du Quebec are being brought in for security.
>
> Prosecutors say they have been told not to subpoena
> police as witnesses during the week of the summit because they
> won't be available.
>
> Prosecutors noted that the Criminal Code allows them
> to seek publication bans on bail hearings. One prosecutor said
> he believes that after the five days of incarceration, charges
> will simply be dropped in most cases. He said the provincial government is
> just using the judiciary to keep protesters off the streets.
>
> Montreal prosecutors plan to make public within the
> next few days a letter of solidarity with the protesters, one
> prosecutor said.
>
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