TORONTO – Multiple people with Guelph connections were among the hundreds arrested in connection with G20 protests.

Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) staffer Mandy Hiscocks, 36, is to appear in court today for a bail hearing. She was arrested Friday and charged with conspiracy to commit indictable mischief. She was among 15 suspects police charged in connection with a crackdown of alleged ringleaders of violent G20 protesting.

A roommate of Guelph activist Julian Ichim said Ichim is also in custody in Toronto in connection with a G2O arrest. His mother, Florica, said her son “was in jail” when contacted by the Waterloo Region Record on Sunday night. Attempts to reach him and his lawyer so far Monday have been unsuccessful.

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Some of these arrests sound like "preventative detention". This was done at the Republican Convention in Minnesota. And I think the courts eventually found it to be unlawful. Tom