Several pipeline protesters have been released from a British Columbia jail a few days before their one-week sentence was set to end.
Seven protesters in all were sentenced to a week-long jail term on August 15, after pleading guilty to contempt charges in B.C. Supreme Court.
Five who were released on Sunday from a women’s prison in Maple Ridge, B.C., issued a joint statement, saying they were imprisoned because of their opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
In the statement, the five women say they are not criminals, but “political prisoners.”
Jean Swanson’s being released from jail
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