While out on bail on G20 conspiracy charges, accused ringleader Jaroslava Avila was allowed to attend university classes, but had to have her class schedule with her just in case police asked.

House arrest limited almost everything the 23-year-old did.

She couldn’t use a cellphone and, except for attending school, could only go out when accompanied by someone over 18 — and if she had a note from her mother. And she couldn’t participate in any public demonstrations.

“It was a logistical nightmare,” she said.

In the first few days after getting out on bail, Avila noticed she was being followed by police.

“They were in plainclothes but you could tell because they had wires sticking out of their ears,” she said.

As a fourth-year political science student at the University of Toronto, these restrictions put her in a dilemma during class seminars: How much could she contribute to class debates revolving around highly charged political issues?

“I felt really awkward about this,” Avila said. “I even had a G20 global governance class that I participated in and my professor was very understanding.”

Most of her professors knew the trouble she was in, and so did most of her classmates.

On Monday, her “living nightmare” ended amid cheers from a crowded courtroom of accused G20 conspirators and their parents as three conspiracy charges against her were dropped.

Meanwhile, the 18 other co-accused had their cases adjourned to Jan. 31 at the Finch Ave. W. courts.

After reviewing the evidence against Avila, Crown Attorney Jason Miller told the court “there was no reasonable prospect of conviction.”

Avila states flatly: “There was nothing there.”

Avila was arrested Sept. 29 at the university during a health advocacy group meeting.

On her way home with her mother that night, Avila’s name was called in the darkness. She turned around, was arrested by a plainclothes officer and later handcuffed.

Police asked, “Where’s the gun?” according to her mother, Viviana, 55, who was left crying in the dark.

The charges stemmed from the violence in June when store windows were broken and a police cruiser was set ablaze.

Avila was indignant upon her release Monday.

“We were processed for broken windows,” she said. “That’s what they’re charging us with. For planning to break windows. Yet they’re screwing with our lives every single day.”

The attorney general’s office says 86 individuals still have matters before the courts, including five who have warrants for their arrest.

“I feel so relieved, but empty too,” Avila said, referring to the other cases and, in particular, Alex Hundert, who is still in jail.

Viviana Avila, who fled the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile in the 1970s, said she taught her daughter to stand up against repression by police and government.

Her daughter spent two days in jail before getting released on $25,000 bail.

Avila said that when she looks back at her arrest, she admits it was a “huge learning experience” for both activists and the police.

Of the activists, she said, “I think mistakes were made, but they were made very innocently.”

However, because of the police reaction, there is much to fear, she said, making comparisons to police roundups and “selective arrests” in other countries.

“Today they’re arresting people in Toronto. Tomorrow there could be murders, there could be disappearances,” Avila said.

Asked point-blank if she ever had an association with the notorious Black Bloc, who are believed to be behind the most violent attacks during the G20 summit, Avila looked away from her coffee cup.

“I’m not going to go there,” she said.

Asked if she supports breaking windows to make a political statement, she again grew silent.

“I’m not going to comment on that.”