Court throws out ‘inappropriate’ bail conditions on student arrested after Sydney protest at Reserve Bank
Magistrate says she ‘didn’t understand’ why police imposed bail on Cherish Kuehlmann, 23, who was charged with trespass after protest last month
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A magistrate has thrown out “inappropriate” bail conditions imposed on a 23-year-old student activist who was the subject of a midnight arrest by police following a protest outside the Reserve Bank in Sydney last month.
In Downing Centre local court on Wednesday, lawyers for Cherish Kuehlmann, a student at the University of NSW charged with a single count of trespass after a 30-person protest in Sydney’s CBD last month, successfully argued for the removal of strict bail conditions preventing her from being within 2km of Sydney’s Town Hall.
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