On 31 July 2024, Adam Gagnon, Chief Dsta’hyl of the Wet’suwet’en Nation was convicted of criminal contempt and sentenced to a 60-day jail sentence and thus named the first ever prisoner of conscience in Canada by Amnesty International. The conviction pertains to actions nearly three years ago, violating an injunction that prohibited anyone from impeding Coastal GasLink’s construction of a natural gas pipeline through unceded Wet’suwet’en territory. The court dismissed Chief Dsta’hyl’s justification that he was following Wet’suwet’en law that requires him to protect Wet’suwet’en territory for future generations.