Jensen La Vende 

Se­nior Re­porter 

jensen.lavende@guardian.co.tt 

At­tor­ney Vashisht Seep­er­sad is ac­cus­ing the po­lice of op­press­ing his client, Christo­pher “Christ Must List” Hugh­es, who was ar­rest­ed yes­ter­day in con­nec­tion mon­ey laun­der­ing al­le­ga­tions. 

Seep­er­sad told Guardian Me­dia that his client was be­ing ques­tioned about a video he post­ed on so­cial me­dia de­pict­ing men valu­ing their gold jew­ellery. 

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, Hugh­es was held at the Diego Mar­tin home of at­tor­ney Criston Williams.
Po­lice said his Ap­ple lap­top, iPhone, portable hard dri­ve, Go­Pro cam­era and oth­er de­vices were seized. 

“They have no ev­i­dence of mon­ey laun­der­ing. The po­lice is do­ing every­thing they can to stop and stymie Christ Must List from pub­lish­ing con­tent in re­la­tion to Trinidad and To­ba­go,” Seep­er­sad said. 

He added that his client was held in re­la­tion to con­tent he record­ed on a video he post­ed. The video was post­ed 11 days ago on YouTube and ti­tled St Paul Street’s 6 Dan (aka Tyson) Shows Me $2 Mil­lion in Gold! 
Hugh­es cap­tioned the video, “In to­day’s video, I take you on an ad­ven­ture through St Paul Street, a no­to­ri­ous no-go zone, where I get a rare look in­to the world of 6 Dan, al­so known as Tyson. He opens his vault to show off a por­tion of his gold jew­ellery and watch col­lec­tion.” 

Seep­er­sad said his client’s con­sti­tu­tion­al rights were be­ing in­fringed by the con­stant po­lice in­ter­ac­tions. Up to press time, Hugh­es re­mained in po­lice cus­tody. 

The 45-year-old is cur­rent­ly be­fore the courts charged with mak­ing a sedi­tious pub­li­ca­tion and has plead­ed not guilty to the of­fence, which goes to tri­al in Jan­u­ary. If found guilty, Hugh­es, who is out on $100,000 bail, faces a $3,000 fine or two years im­pris­on­ment. 

Days be­fore his last court ap­pear­ance, Hugh­es said he had fired his at­tor­neys, Pamela El­der and Rus­sell Warn­er, over a near­ly US$50,000 in­voice for two ap­pear­ances.  
At his last court ap­pear­ance, Warn­er said both El­der and him­self with­drew from rep­re­sent­ing Hugh­es. For­mer AG Anand Ram­lo­gan, who was rep­re­sent­ing Hugh­es pro bono on be­half of the Cana­di­an Em­bassy, al­so with­drew his rep­re­sen­ta­tion.