I just spoke on the phone with Pastor Artur Pawlowski. He is finally out of prison and back home, after his jailers at the Calgary Remand Centre refused for hours to honour Justice Germain's order to release him. That in itself is a scandal.
The entire tweet thread is worth reading, here's a few highlights:
Pastor Artur says that even as he drove home from the jail, police followed him, both in vehicles and by helicopter. They're harassing him, targeting him, stalking him.
Pastor Artur says they moved him and his brother Dawid from jail to jail and did not notify his lawyers of that fact. They also repeatedly denied his requests to speak with his lawyers
Pastor Artur tells me that at his bail hearing this morning, he was literally in leg irons. Like he was a murderer who might run off or something. What an absolute, eternal disgrace to the Government of Alberta.
-they tried to force him to wear a mask as well, but backed down.
UPDATE: ARTUR FINALLY RELEASED https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1391923696235950083
The entire tweet thread is worth reading, here's a few highlights:
Pastor Artur says that even as he drove home from the jail, police followed him, both in vehicles and by helicopter. They're harassing him, targeting him, stalking him.
Pastor Artur says they moved him and his brother Dawid from jail to jail and did not notify his lawyers of that fact. They also repeatedly denied his requests to speak with his lawyers
Pastor Artur tells me that at his bail hearing this morning, he was literally in leg irons. Like he was a murderer who might run off or something. What an absolute, eternal disgrace to the Government of Alberta.
-they tried to force him to wear a mask as well, but backed down.