Shal­iza Has­sanali

The at­tor­ney rep­re­sent­ing YouTu­ber Chris Hugh­es, pop­u­lar­ly known as Chris Must List, is fear­ful for his client’s safe­ty. At­tor­ney Criston J Williams, in a brief tele­phone in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, said he too had to be care­ful with his life. Williams de­clined to speak about Hugh­es’ case.

On Wednes­day, Hugh­es, a Cana­di­an, was charged by the po­lice with sedi­tion. Hugh­es is in po­lice cus­tody, await­ing his court ap­pear­ance to­mor­row. How­ev­er, Williams said, “I wish to guard care­ful­ly against any mis­in­for­ma­tion be­ing placed in the pub­lic do­main about him (Hugh­es) by the TTPS.”

As a hu­man rights de­fend­er, Williams plead­ed with me­dia hous­es to act re­spon­si­bly with their re­port­ing and “to please do not put out any mis­in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing my client and my­self that could re­sult in the loss of our lives.”

Yes­ter­day, a note pur­port­ing to come from Hugh­es’ fam­i­ly be­gan cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia, stat­ing that they are cur­rent­ly work­ing around the clock with the au­thor­i­ties and glob­al af­fairs in Cana­da and Trinidad. Williams, who was asked about the note, said he did not know any­thing about it.