Save Old Growth organizer turns himself in to Canada Border Services Agency

By Rochelle Baker
National Observer
June 21, 2022
Category: Forestry
Region: Canada, Canada West

…Zain Haq — an international student leading a civil resistance campaign to end old-growth logging in B.C. — was taken into custody in Vancouver and moved to an immigration holding centre in Surrey where he’ll remain until at least Thursday when he has a hearing scheduled, said SOG spokesperson Ian Weber. No details are available yet on the reasons why CBSA took Haq into custody, Weber said. The 21-year-old from Pakistan turned himself over to the border agency after it issued an arrest warrant for the co-founder of the protest group. …Before attending the border agency’s offices in the company of his lawyer Randall Cohn, Haq told Canada’s National Observer he was nervous but OK. “I do intend to fully co-operate. I was simply trying to get the appropriate legal counsel,” he said. Haq was optimistic the SOG movement would continue if he is deported. …“He’s sacrificing himself for the good of our planet,” Brent Eichler said. [Access to this story may require a National Observer subscription]

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