PBI-Canada says that the RCMP C-IRG that criminalizes and violates the rights of land defenders should be disbanded - Peace Brigades International-Canada

PBI-Canada says that the RCMP C-IRG that criminalizes and violates the rights of land defenders should be disbanded - Peace Brigades International-Canada

Video still: Land defender Shaylynn Sampson arrested on Wet’suwet’en territory by RCMP C-IRG officers, November 2021. On February 18, CBC reported that British Columbia (BC) Supreme Court Justice Michael Tammen ruled that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) breached the Charter rights of three Indigenous land defenders during that unit’s militarized raid on Wet’suwet’en territory in 2021. Those land…

BC Court: Racist RCMP violated rights of Indigenous Land Defenders

On February 18th, BC Justice Michael Tammen ruled that the RCMP's Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) breached the charter rights of three Indigenous Land Defenders. Militarized police were sent in to enforce a BC court injunction in November, 2021- granted to Coastal Gaslink (CGL) - to building a fracked gas pipeline over Wet'suwet'en territory in so-called British Columbia.    The Yintah (Wet’suwet’en land) is 22,000 square kilometre…