Twelve Indigenous rights defenders, including Gitxsan Nation leader Kolin Sutherland-Wilson, were arrested during an overnight protest in the lobby of the Canadian Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources. The peaceful sit-in was organised in support to Wet’suwet’en chiefs' opposition to a natural-gas pipeline through their territory in northern B.C. The group was asking that the demands of the hereditary chiefs regarding stopping work on the Coastal GasLink pipeline be upheld, observed and respected.