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Jaggi Singh’s rebel resume

Highlights of a protest career

1997 Arrested at APEC summit protest at UBC and charged with yelling through a megaphone into a security guard’s ear

1999 Charges dropped

  • One of 51 people to file a complaint against the RCMP’s APEC actions
  • Complaints spark a formal probe by the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP

2001 Arrested at the Quebec City Summit of the Americas for breaking bail conditions and on weapons charges over a teddy bear catapult that were later dropped

2002 Commission for Public Complaints report says Singh was arrested in 1997 on spurious charges

2003 Quebec Superior Court says earlier bail conditions on yet another arrest violated his freedoms

  • Deported by Israeli authorities for violating a ban on his admission to the West Bank
  • Arrested at Concordia for supporting students arrested for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit

2006 Arrested, charged with violating bail conditions at an Afghan protest during a Stephen Harper presser

2007 Convicted of obstruction

2010 Arrested following the G20 protests in Toronto

Read about Jaggi Singh’s G20 case here.

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