In a wheelchair, hunger striker Dr Wayne Kublalsingh appeared before a Siparia Magistrate on Friday morning.
Kublalsingh, leader of the Highway Reroute Movement (HRM), was called to answer charges of assault, resisting arrest and obstructing the police in the execution of their duty.
The charges stem from a HRM protest in March 2014. The HRM leader was involved in several protests before embarking on a hunger strike in which he claims to be abstaining from food and water.
The hunger strike is in response to the ongoing construction of the Debe to Mondesir leg of an extension of the Solomon Hochoy Highway. Several weeks ago, Kublalsingh
moved the hunger strike from outside the Prime Minister’s St Clair office to his home in La Florissante, D'Abadie.