Angela Davidson

British Columbia’s highest court has ordered the Green Party of Canada’s deputy leader to be released from custody pending her appeal of a 60-day jail sentence (issued April 24) for her role in old-growth logging protests on Vancouver Island. Angela Davidson, also known as Rainbow Eyes, was convicted earlier this year of seven counts of criminal contempt for breaching a court injunction blocking protesters from disrupting logging activities in the Fairy Creek watershed. …Davidson filed an appeal of her sentence two days later, and was ordered released on bail Monday pending the appeal hearing, according to the B.C. Appeal Court and the B.C. Prosecution Service. A spokesperson for the court said the Crown did not oppose granting Davidson leave for appeal, nor did it oppose granting her release from custody pending the appeal hearing. Davidson said her efforts to “braid the laws” of the Crown and Indigenous communities will continue.