Sea­men and Wa­ter­front Work­ers’ Trade Union (SWW­TU) pres­i­dent gen­er­al Michael An­nisette says the labour move­ment has hand­ed over all rel­e­vant in­for­ma­tion sur­round­ing the ar­rest and charg­ing of ac­tivist Alyssa Phillip on Labour Day to a se­nior coun­sel, who will de­ter­mine the next course of ac­tion.

Phillip and her moth­er, Camille Cares­quero, were ar­rest­ed dur­ing the Labour Day pro­ces­sion in Fyz­abad on June 19 and lat­er charged with mul­ti­ple of­fences, in­clud­ing re­sist­ing ar­rest and dis­or­der­ly be­hav­iour.

Po­lice have main­tained that the pair par­tic­i­pat­ed in what they de­scribed as an unau­tho­rised march af­ter al­leged­ly re­fus­ing in­struc­tions to dis­perse.