{"id":604162,"date":"2026-04-14T20:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604162\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T20:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:37:09","slug":"pro-palestinian-protesters-in-court-after-arrest-for-montreal-scotiabank-sit-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604162\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestinian protesters in court after arrest for Montreal Scotiabank sit-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Pro-Palestinian protesters are in Montreal municipal court for a Charter challenge to their April 2024 arrests on mischief charges in front of a Scotiabank branch.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal police had arrested 44 people participating in a sit-in to demand the bank divest from Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems Ltd., with charges later dropped against 30 people.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Bedont, a lawyer representing the remaining 14 protesters facing charges, says her clients were unlawfully detained and police did not read them their rights.<\/p>\n<p>Bedont says police violated the protesters\u2019 right to protest, peaceful assembly, and freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>She says she will file a motion asking that the charges be stayed, adding that sit-ins are not illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Regulatory filings show that Scotiabank\u2019s 1832 Asset Management has sold its remaining holdings in Elbit Systems.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 14, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 Pro-Palestinian protesters are in Montreal municipal court for a Charter challenge to their April 2024 arrests&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-604162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}