<p>A Canadian court has awarded a major legal win to Artur Pawlowski, the pastor who was arrested and jailed for holding a church service during Alberta&#8217;s lockdown.</p>
<p>Pawlowski, the minister of Calgary Street Church, was arrested by Calgary police in dramatic fashion in the middle of a busy highway on May 8 last year as he was driving home from church, where his congregation had gathered without masks in violation of public health orders.</p>
<p>Both Pawlowski and his brother Dawid Pawlowski were charged with organizing an illegal in-person gathering, as well as “requesting, inciting or inviting others” to participate with them.</p>
<p>Later in October, a judge <a href="https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/therebel/pages/54808/attachments/original/1634308090/watermarked_FINAL_AHS_v._Pawlowski_sanction_15Oct2021_645.pdf?1634308090">found</a> them in contempt of Alberta&#8217;s May 6 health order. That judge also slapped a sanction on the pastor, mandating that whenever he publicly spoke about Alberta&#8217;s pandemic restrictions, Pawlowski must add a government-approved statement saying that most medical experts support social distancing, face masks, and vaccines.</p>
<p>However, on Friday, an Alberta appeals court panel ruled that the Alberta health agency&#8217;s order restraining “illegal public gatherings” was “not sufficiently clear and unambiguous” as to apply to the Pawlowskis.</p>
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<p>&#8220;The Pawlowskis&#8217; appeals are allowed. The finding of contempt and the sanction order are set aside. The fines that have been paid by them are to be reimbursed,&#8221; the three-member panel wrote in their 16-page <a href="https://assets.nationbuilder.com/therebel/pages/60733/attachments/original/1658509958/MEM%28C%29-2101-0234AC_34411_.pdf?1658509958">ruling</a>.</p>
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<p>The court ordered Alberta Health Services, the province&#8217;s health agency, to reimburse Pawlowski for his legal costs, as well as the fines levied against him.</p>
<p>Pawlowski&#8217;s lawyer celebrating the win in a statement on Twitter.</p>
<p>&#8220;It’s a slam dunk win. The Court of Appeal made a unanimous, sound decision and overturned the finding of contempt made against my client,&#8221; attorney Sarah Miller <a href="https://twitter.com/SCM07/status/1550514130422927361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1550514130422927361%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rebelnews.com%2Ftags%2Fpastor_artur_pawlowski">tweeted</a>.</p>
<p>Since 2020, Pawlowski has been repeatedly arrested, fined, and jailed as he continued to defy and protest Alberta&#8217;s stringent pandemic restrictions.</p>
<p>In December, 2020, Pawlowski was providing grilled steak to homeless people in Calgary when he was approached by police, who <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-police-fine-preacher-feeding-homeless-for-coronavirus-health-orders/">issued</a> him a $1,200 fine.</p>
<p>Shocking videos of Canadian police arresting the pastor over and over again have gone viral and sparked outrage over social media.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tomorrow I have another trial in Calgary! I am personally facing a $100,000 ticket for feeding the homeless during the greatest crisis we have ever seen in our country.<br />The trial is in Calgary courthouse in room 1005, 9am, Monday the 6, 2022 <a href="https://t.co/mY18v9gWxe">pic.twitter.com/mY18v9gWxe</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Artur Pawlowski (@ArturPawlowski1) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArturPawlowski1/status/1533530846128242688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">📹 | Police in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Canada?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Canada</a> arrests priest Artur Pawlowski demonstrating against <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> restrictions.</p>
<p>▪️Pawlowski had called police officers &quot;Nazis&quot; previously.<a href="https://t.co/eYwphDgfFR">pic.twitter.com/eYwphDgfFR</a></p>
<p>&mdash; EHA News (@eha_news) <a href="https://twitter.com/eha_news/status/1477617113594531844?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Pastor Artur Pawlowski&#39;s Lawyer: Next steps on “fair hearing” after arrest for contempt order<a href="https://twitter.com/ATSoos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ATSoos</a> interviews Pastor Artur Pawlowski&#39;s lawyer Sarah Miller to find out more about the team working on his case.</p>
<p>FULL REPORT:<a href="https://t.co/94rbb9OPHx">https://t.co/94rbb9OPHx</a> <a href="https://t.co/IGCIupXUr0">pic.twitter.com/IGCIupXUr0</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) <a href="https://twitter.com/RebelNewsOnline/status/1391779022342918153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
<p>In February, Pawlowski was jailed for weeks, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/thousands-urge-congress-to-introduce-resolution-condemning-canadian-pastors-imprisonment">reportedly</a> spending 23 hours a day in solitary confinement at the Calgary Remand Centre after speaking to truckers with the Freedom Convoy, who were protesting vaccine mandates at the U.S.-Canada border.</p>
<p>&#8220;He was placed in what he described as like a dog kennel, but it was like a cage, sort of like what you have in a police van; those really thin, small cages with very little air circulation. So he was placed in one of those for hours on end twice,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/thousands-urge-congress-to-introduce-resolution-condemning-canadian-pastors-imprisonment">said</a> Pawlowski&#8217;s son, Nathaniel Pawlowski.</p>
<p>&#8220;I can feel your prayers, and they keep me strong,&#8221; the pastor said from jail. &#8220;God allows me to be here for a witness to the entire world, to show what happens when you kick God out of your nation. Lawlessness, injustice, abuse of power and corruption creeped in.”</p>
<p>Pawlowski also went viral during Holy Week last year over <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34H8JqWvUnQ">video</a> of him demanding that police leave his church.</p>
<p>He has also spoken with U.S. lawmakers, warning that some governments are beginning to look like communist Poland, which he fled when he was a young man.</p>

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