At­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing Christo­pher “Chris Must List” Hugh­es have writ­ten to Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der, for­mal­ly re­quest­ing the lift­ing of an Or­der of De­por­ta­tion which is pre­vent­ing him from re­turn­ing to T&T for his tri­al, which is due to get un­der­way next month.

Hugh­es is a con­tent cre­ator who cur­rent­ly re­sides in On­tario, Cana­da. He ar­rived in Trinidad on April 26, 2024, and trav­elled through­out var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ties, con­duct­ing in­ter­views with res­i­dents and oth­er in­di­vid­u­als as part of his es­tab­lished prac­tice of pro­duc­ing trav­el and doc­u­men­tary con­tent for pub­li­ca­tion on dig­i­tal me­dia plat­forms.

How­ev­er, fol­low­ing the pub­li­ca­tion of cer­tain con­tent record­ed with the crim­i­nal el­e­ments in T&T, crim­i­nal pro­ceed­ings were in­sti­tut­ed against Hugh­es, and he was sub­se­quent­ly charged with the of­fence of sedi­tion con­trary to Sec­tion 4(1)(c) of the Sedi­tion Act, Chap­ter 11:04.