RHON­DOR DOWLAT 

Se­nior Re­porter 

rhon­dor.dowlat@guardian.co.tt 

Cana­di­an YouTu­ber Christo­pher “Chris Must List” Hugh­es has not left T&T and most like­ly will not un­til his court hear­ing in Au­gust.

In a video post­ed on so­cial me­dia, Hugh­es said he was hop­ing to re­turn home to see his wife and kids but dis­closed that he would be in T&T un­til his court mat­ter, which is ex­pect­ed to be heard around Au­gust 23.

Hugh­es had ini­tial­ly said he planned to re­turn home yes­ter­day. How­ev­er, he said his pass­port had not yet been re­turned to him. He said he would con­tin­ue to do what he came here to do, which is to make videos and up­load them to his so­cial me­dia ac­counts.

He al­so as­sured that he will fight for his free­dom.

Hugh­es was de­tained last month and even­tu­al­ly charged with sedi­tion fol­low­ing the re­lease of videos show­ing men in the coun­try who pro­fessed to be in gangs.

Hugh­es has plead­ed not guilty and is cur­rent­ly out on $100,000 bail.

Fol­low­ing Hugh­es’ ar­rest, po­lice ar­rest­ed sev­en men on Thurs­day morn­ing in con­nec­tion with gang-re­lat­ed ac­tiv­i­ties. 

It is sus­pect­ed that the men are the men in Hugh­es’ videos who were al­leged­ly seen bran­dish­ing firearms.

Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Fitzger­ald Hinds con­firmed the lat­est ar­rests to the me­dia on Thurs­day dur­ing a prime-time morn­ing tele­vi­sion talk show.