Wed Oct 13, 2021 – 2:18 pm EDTWed Oct 13, 2021 – 2:19 pm EDT
ALBERTA, (LifeSiteNews) – An Alberta judge decided not to send Canadian Christian pastor Artur Pawlowski back to jail despite a demand from the province’s health authority that he be put behind bars for nearly a month.
Despite no jail time, according to reporters present at the trial, the judge ruled that Pawlowski is banned from publicly criticizing COVID health orders, including on social media, unless he also promotes arguments in favor of the government’s orders.
In a decision handed down this morning in an Alberta court, Justice Adam Germain ruled that instead of jail time Pawlowski will be fined $23,000 along with probation and community service.
Pawlowski and his brother Dawid were in court for a sentencing hearing to hear Germain’s decision regarding charges against them for holding worship services at their Cave of Adullam church located in Calgary in the spring of 2021.
Dawid was handed a $10,000 fine along with one-year probation and like his brother, is banned from criticizing COVID health orders. The Pawlowski brothers have 36 months to pay the fines.
Today, Germain decided that a three-day jail sentence the Pawlowski’s served
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