THE political leader of the New National Vision (NNV) Fuad Abu Bakr has been granted $75,000 in bail.
He appeared before Magistrate Indar Jagoo on Thursday afternoon via a virtual court hearing. He is on six charges.
Bakr, the son of Jamaat-al-Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr, was arrested during the unrest in Port-of-Spain on Tuesday but has also been slapped with charges arising out of the Black Lives Matter protest at the Queen’s Park Savannah opposite the US Embassy on June 8.
The charges included obstructing a police officer in the execution of his duty and three counts of assaulting a police officer at the Black Lives Matter protest.
In addition, he is charged with using violent language to provoke persons to commit a breach of the peace and breaching the Covid-19 regulations during protests along Piccadilly Street, Port-of-Spain on Tuesday.
It is alleged that Bakr shouted to a group of protesters, “All yuh come let’s block the road, they can’t stop us, no justice, no peace!”
He was detained at the Besson Street Police Station since his arrest.
