Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich remains behind bars until at least March 7, marking 19 days in custody, as the judge overhearing her bail review on March 2 said the next hearing session would be the following week. Among the arguments raised by Lich’s defence is that the judge who denied her bail was biased against her cause due to the judge’s former ties to the governing Liberal Party, a point of debate among legal experts. Drew Barnes, an independent Alberta MLA in Lich’s hometown riding for Cypress-Medicine Hat, has called Lich a “political prisoner” and asked for her release. “She freely admits to taking part in non-violent civil disobedience in her role with the Freedom Convoy to Ottawa. She faces mischief charges, and nothing more,” he said in a statement on Feb. 27. “She has been portrayed in the media as a violent criminal, a foreign operative, and an anarchist. Nothing …