Meet the hereditary chief who Amnesty International calls Canada’s first prisoner of conscience — The Wet’suwet’en chief is under house arrest for resisting a pipeline on his territory. #Indigenous#Wetsuwetenricochet.media/indigenous/m...#cdnpoli

Meet the hereditary chief who Amnesty International calls Canada’s first prisoner of conscience

In Northern British Columbia, a Wet’suwet’en chief is under house arrest for resisting a pipeline on his territory

It's alarming that the BC government bypassed direct Wetʼsuwetʼen community engagement and instead chose to gather information through private surveillance conducted by a resource extraction company.

#Exclusive#Wetsuweten@amandafollett.bsky.social reports.

BC’s Secretive Plan to Tighten Protest Response | The Tyee

Amidst Fairy Creek and CGL conflicts, the province quietly re-evaluated how it manages civil disobedience. A Tyee exclusive.

BC Illegally Collected Personal Info Tied to the Wet'suwet'en Conflict #Wetsuweten#bcpoli#CoastalGasLink#fossilfuels#privacyviolationsthetyee.ca/News/2024/08...

BC Illegally Collected Personal Info Tied to the Wet’suwet’en Conflict | The Tyee

A Tyee exclusive: Coastal GasLink intel was shared with the Indigenous Relations Ministry during high-stakes talks.

#Canada’s#Indigenous#PrisonerOfConscience#Dstahyl#Wetsuweten#CoastalGaslinkwww.nationalobserver.com/2024/08/23/n...

A conversation with Canada’s first ‘prisoner of conscience’

Amnesty International has given the distinction — extended to people incarcerated for their politics, religion, ethnicity or other personal or protected status — to Chief Dsta'hyl, a Wet'suwet'en here...

Canada: Wet’suwet’en Chief Dsta’hyl declared first Amnesty International prisoner of conscience held in Canada  #Canada#humanrights#Wetsuweten#Indigenous#Canada#IndigenousJustice#CoastalGasLink#landdefenderswww.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Canada: Wet’suwet’en Chief Dsta’hyl declared first Amnesty International prisoner of conscience held in Canada

Unprecedented decision to designate Likhts’amisyu Clan Wing Chief Dsta’hyl of the Wet’suwet’en Nation as the first-ever designated prisoner of conscience in Canada.

The politicians & corporate execs who are pushing this through on #Wetsuweten#landdefenderswww.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Amnesty International Will Attend Trials of Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders in British Columbia https://epicnews.ca/canada/legal/amnesty-international-will-attend-trials-of-wetsuweten-land-defenders-in-british-columbia-20240611/#AmnestyInternational […]

“Yintah” won the audience choice award at @hotdocs.bsky.social#Wetsuweten storytelling and the new wave of Indigenous-led docs. You can catch the film this week at DOXA.

Reclaiming Wet’suwet’en Storytelling in ‘Yintah’ | The Tyee

At this year’s DOXA, catch a new wave of Indigenous-led docs. A Q&A with Freda Huson and director-journalist Michael Toledano.

Hot Docs programming director Heather Haynes says the standing ovation that followed Yintah -- an epic look at the Wetʼsuwetʼen's decade-long battle against the Coastal GasLink pipeline -- might've been the longest in the festival's history.