Lich was taken into custody at Alta Medicine Hat on Monday after Ottawa police issued an arrest warrant for her across Canada. He returned to the country’s capital and made a brief appearance in court on Thursday. Prosecutor Moiz Karimjee requested an entire day for a bail hearing, scheduled for July 5. Lich remains in custody as many groups – most of them formed by Freedom Convoy – are planning demonstrations in Ottawa starting July 1 and continuing through the summer. He appeared in a video from an Ottawa police cell wearing a gray sweatshirt with the words “Freedom Over Fear” on it. Eric Granger, Lich’s defense attorney, said July 5 was the earliest available date. “The only new charge he has been arrested for is breach of a single guarantee, [she] “It will be the ninth day of her detention since she was even given the opportunity to regain her freedom,” she wrote in an email to CBC. Lich faces charges of disorderly conduct, counseling, police obstruction, police obstruction counseling, intimidation counseling and intimidation by blocking and obstructing one or more highways in connection with the protest. Protests against the COVID-19 mandate closed parts of Ottawa for three weeks as participants parked trucks and other vehicles on city streets, blocking access to neighborhoods and major thoroughfares around Parliament Hill.
Communication of court documents, communication with other organizers
Lich was arrested on Feb. 17 and spent about 18 days in the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Center before being released on bail in March on terms that included the removal of social media. She underwent bail last month, but prosecutors were unable to try to reinstate her for alleged breach of bail that she did not support anything related to Freedom Convoy. Lich also can not organize any kind of protest and is not allowed to communicate or communicate with the other 10 convoy leaders, except in the presence of a lawyer. Court documents state that Lich failed to comply with the condition on June 16. It was the same day he received an award during a ceremony in Toronto hosted by the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), a legal and registered Calgary-based charity. The next day, Stacey Kauder, who describes Lich as a friend, posted a photo on her Facebook page showing Lich with her husband and four other attendees at the JCCF gala. To the left of Lich is a man identified as Tom Marazzo, a fellow convoy organizer, one of the people with whom he was ordered to have no contact unless her lawyer was present. Tamara Lich, fourth from the left, was ordered by a judge not to have any contact with fellow escort organizer Tom Marazzo, second from the right. This photo shows the team in Toronto after Lich received her JCCF Freedom Award. (Facebook / Stacey Kauder) Documents filed after her arrest cite photos of Lich and Marazzo “hand in hand” adding that the photos “were not for legal issues and no lawyer [was] present.” They also refer to a video of Marazzo delivering a speech with a presentation of the occupation in Ottawa before Lich took the stage and spoke to the crowd about “cancellation of rights”. The documents add that after her speech, Lich made “physical contact” with Marazzo as she sat at the same table with him and “seems to whisper” something in his ear, which is described as “communication”. Friends of the two convoy organizers had speculated on social media that Lich had the opportunity to contact Marazzo at the event because JCCF lawyers were present, who also represent Lich in its civil cases. In the criminal case file, Lawrence Greenspon, who owns a company based in Ottawa, is mentioned as a consultant to Lich.
