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JUDGE SATHER’S OUT-DATED SENTENCES FOR SECWEPEMC WOMEN SCREAMS OF ETHNOCIDE

Anonyme, Friday, October 25, 2002 - 23:44
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Judge Sather gave his decision concerning three Secwepemc women arrested for participating in a roadblock. They were protesting against the Sun Peaks Ski Station's plan of expansion on Secwepemc traditional land and the destruction of the Secwepemc Protection Center

Native Youth Movement
Secwepemc Chapter
Secwepemcul’ucw

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JUDGE SATHER’S OUT-DATED SENTENCES
FOR SECWEPEMC WOMEN SCREAMS OF ETHNOCIDE

(Kamloops, Secwepemc Territory/October 22, 2002) Provincial Court Judge Sather sentenced three Secwepemc Women today at Kamloops Law Courts; Nicole Manuel, the spokesperson of the Secwepemc Chapter of the Native Youth Movement, was sentenced to 45 days real jail time with one-year probation. The women were found guilty last month on Intimidation and Mischief charges incurred as a result of a roadblock they participated in at Skwelkwek’welt (Sun Peaks) in August of last year. Sather stated that he based his sentencing on the fact that “these people and people like-minded

Informations concerning the arrest of Nicole, Miranda and Beverly
www.ainfos.ca/01/oct/ainfos00435.html
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