Court Rules Pastor Artur Pawlowski Wrongfully Jailed for Defying COVID Lockdown to Hold Church Servi

[Revmitchell]

A Canadian appeals court ruled today that Pastor Artur Pawlowski was wrongfully arrested, jailed and fined for holding a church service in defiance of a ban on worship services put in place during the COVID pandemic lockdown.

In early May 2021, Pastor Artur Pawlowski of the Street Church in Alberta, Canada was arrested and charged with organizing an “illegal in-person gathering” and “requesting, inciting or inviting others” to join the gathering. His crime? Holding a church service in defiance of the Canadian COVID lockdown. And he faces 4 years in prison as a result of the service.

A video of the pastor had previously gone viral when police officers raided a Passover celebration at his Alberta church and Pastor Pawlowski yelled at the officers until they left.

A judge found Pawlowski guilty of contempt in June 2021 and he still potentially faced four years in jail for allegedly organizing an illegal in-person gathering, inciting or inviting others to attend an illegal gathering, as well as promoting and attending the gathering.

But today, the Alberta Court of Appeal ruled that the injunction against him, his arrest, his jail time, the censorship order and fines against him were illegal.


Court Rules Pastor Artur Pawlowski Wrongfully Jailed for Defying COVID Lockdown to Hold Church Service - LifeNews.com

 

[Reynolds]

A Canadian appeals court ruled today that Pastor Artur Pawlowski was wrongfully arrested, jailed and fined for holding a church service in defiance of a ban on worship services put in place during the COVID pandemic lockdown.

In early May 2021, Pastor Artur Pawlowski of the Street Church in Alberta, Canada was arrested and charged with organizing an “illegal in-person gathering” and “requesting, inciting or inviting others” to join the gathering. His crime? Holding a church service in defiance of the Canadian COVID lockdown. And he faces 4 years in prison as a result of the service.

A video of the pastor had previously gone viral when police officers raided a Passover celebration at his Alberta church and Pastor Pawlowski yelled at the officers until they left.

A judge found Pawlowski guilty of contempt in June 2021 and he still potentially faced four years in jail for allegedly organizing an illegal in-person gathering, inciting or inviting others to attend an illegal gathering, as well as promoting and attending the gathering.

But today, the Alberta Court of Appeal ruled that the injunction against him, his arrest, his jail time, the censorship order and fines against him were illegal.


Court Rules Pastor Artur Pawlowski Wrongfully Jailed for Defying COVID Lockdown to Hold Church Service - LifeNews.com

Every official involved in his arrest should be prosecuted for false imprisonment.

 

[Van]

Should be and will be may diverge. It seems the liberal dictatorial elites enforce the law according to their discretion. Thus the law against gathering at SCOTUS private homes is not enforced, but mandates against religious gatherings are enforced.

I wonder if SCOTUS will rule that Executive Privilege extends past the Presidents term of office? I think separation of powers is vital to our liberty, and worry that majority rule of the house and senate could strip citizens of their constitutional freedoms.

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

Within the article:

He remembered that “before they would sentence you, you would be tortured, beaten by the police.” Lawlessness reigned and the Constitution of the Polish People’s Republic became a mere piece of paper. “There was nothing that resembled justice and rule of law at all. It was 50,000 communists ruling, enslaving 36 million Polish people at that time. So what I see right now is a similar approach. One law at a time, one infringement on our rights at a time.”​

This is what some seem to find unimaginable, yet is a real possibility, and certainly one which Dem Progressive Leftists work toward. A small minority brutally controlling a large population.

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

Every official involved in his arrest should be prosecuted for false imprisonment.

Agreed. Unfortunately, that is highly unlikely. According to the article,

The appeals panel concluded the original injunction banning protests in the name of public health “was not sufficiently clear and unambiguous”​

This makes it sound like, had it been sufficiently clear and unambiguous, the policing would have been legitimate. In that case, rights of Canadians are in danger of extinction.