PBI-Canada completes its third visit in support of front line Indigenous land defenders on Wet’suwet’en territory
Peace Brigades International-Canada has completed its third visit to Wet’suwet’en territory. We were here from October 12 to 18, 2025, to monitor the sentencing hearing of three land defenders – Sleydo’, Shaylynn Sampson and Corey Jocko – who were arrested in an RCMP raid on the territory on November 19, 2021.
PBI-Canada has previously visited Wet’suwet’en territory in June 2025 (with the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project) and November 2021.
June 2025.
November 2021.
Among the activities and meetings this past week we met with Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks, attended the memorial service for Lawrence Bazil, met with Gitanyow Hereditary Chief Deb Good and her close advisers, observed a rally and march to the courthouse (October 15) and observed the three day sentencing hearing (October 15-17) along with Amnesty International and Front Line Defenders.
Our articles posted this week include:
– Three land defenders receive suspended sentences for their defence of Wet’suwet’en territory against CGL megaproject (October 17, 2025)
– Three Indigenous land defenders to be sentenced in Canadian court today at 11:00 am Pacific Time (8:00 pm Central European Time) (October 17, 2025)
– International observers monitor Day 2 of the sentencing hearing of Indigenous land defenders in Canadian court (October 16, 2025)
– British Columbia Prosecution Service seeks jail time for three Indigenous land defenders arrested on Wet’suwet’en territory (October 15, 2025)
– Peace Brigades International, Amnesty International and Front Line Defenders to monitor sentencing of Indigenous land defenders in Canada (October 14, 2025)
Selected photos from this week include:
We continue to follow the situation for Indigenous land and environmental defenders on Wet’suwet’en, Gitxsan and Gitanyow territories.
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