Two organizers in the Canadian Freedom convoy were convicted of guilty of the harm

The main architects were convicted of the protests that caused capital in Canada for weeks on Thursday in one of the latest legal cases that stem from the demonstrations that faded the country and disrupted billions of dollars in trade with the United States.

A judge of the best organizers of protest, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, condemned in the Ottawa court not far from Hill Parliament, a siege site for four weeks in 2022 and the demonstrators witnessed long -term trucks in the major streets to protest against the states of Al -Wakka.

Mrs. Litch and Mr. Barber were condemned to harm, according to The Canadian Press, a national agency in New Zeu, a crime that involves destructive public property or disrupting people from using public property with a maximum of 10 -year prison sentence. Mrs. Litch and Mr. Barber will be judged in another session.

Monday was acquitted of other charges, including obstructing justice, intimidating the public and guiding others to commit crimes, according to the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, a non -profit institution that helped in the defense of Mr. Barber.

The group criticized the length of the procedures against the defendants.

“If Tamara Lich and Chris Barber play a leadership role in organizing protests against racism or transvers or climate change, they will not face 45 days of trial for 31 months,” the head of the center, John Carby, said in a statement.

The protests were known in Canada as the “Caravan of Freedom” and It attracted a set of support, especially from the West Alberta province.

It started as a popular movement by truck drivers who faced vaccination requirements to cross the American border. Mr. Barber owns a truck transport company in Swift Tariq, Saskatchewan, while Mrs. Lich describes herself as a political activist, Alberta, who helped raise funds to support this effort.

“I love Canada, regardless of the result today, it will never change,” Lich said in a publication on Thursday before the referee.

Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau evoked a rare in emergency situations that allowed the authorities to take stronger measures against the demonstrators, including freezing their bank accounts and deploying the massive police resources in Ottawa.

Bat King, another major organizer, was Condemn Last year, he was eventually sentenced to three months in prison.

The similar siege was formed in the border crossings in cities such as Windsor, Ontario, opposite Detroit, which prevents trucks from carrying trade through bridges linking the two cities.

In the dispute of another obstruction in Cots, Alberta, the police found Weapons cache Two men later were sentenced to six years in prison for possession of firearms and other charges.