The 22-year-old has been arrested 10 times since joining an Extinction Rebellion protest on the Burrard Bridge in 2019, the court heard.
A Crown prosecutor asked a provincial court judge Thursday to sentence the leader of Extinction Rebellion Vancouver and its spinoff Save Old Growth to 90 days in jail, and revealed that the organizer is facing deportation to his native Pakistan.
In January 2022, Haq helped incorporate Eco Mobilization Canada to raise money and founded Save Old Growth to stage climate change protests that target vehicle drivers on major highways and bridges in Metro Vancouver and Victoria. “[CBSA] would have removed him in the fall but for these proceedings, what's kept him in the country is these proceedings,” Leno told Judge Reginald Harris. “And so, once this matter is concluded, if he is given a jail sentence, once that jail sentence is served, then they'll be able to act on the order.”
Isitt replaced Haq’s previous lawyer, Abdul Abdulmalik, and was joined in court by Flora Yu of the Toronto firm Waddell Phillips. Partner John Kingman Phillips was on web conference. Haq had boasted last August in The New York Times that Save Old Growth received US$170,000 in grants from the California-based Climate Emergency Fund.
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