During the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of Canadian truckers who were being forced out of their trucks unless they took the COVID "vaccine" drove en masse to the Canadian capital of Ottawa to protest. They were joined by hundreds of other protesters who clogged the streets of the capital.
The Canadian government, led by former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, vehemently opposed the protest and withdrew money from the private bank accounts of some of the truckers, arrested them, and had their trucks towed.
On Thursday, a judge convicted Tamara Lich and Chris Barber of mischief – which carries a sentence of up to ten years in prison. The two will be sentenced later this year, according to the BBC.
Canadian Pastor Artur Pawlowski says he saw this coming. "Of course it's a shocking ruling, but we expected this," he tells AFN.
Pawlowski was among the first to protest the restrictive COVID mandates in Canada and was arrested for his troubles.
"They kept me in metal cages in the Canadian prison system," he reports. "They kidnapped, put me in a psych ward without evaluation of doctors. Tortured, stripped naked in front of men and women, solitary confinement, concrete cells."
He describes the court case against Lich and Barber as a show trial, put on out of pure revenge and to send a message to other Canadians.
"Every person right now who has been part in the leadership of the Freedom Convoy is being hunted down. This is a pure witch hunt," he warns.
The truckers' protest occurred in February 2022, lasting for approximately three weeks and creating gridlock in and around the site of the Canadian Parliament.
