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This is the fourth arrest of Pastor Artur since the onset of COVID-19 nearly two years ago. Pastor Artur filed a human rights complaint about his being refused access to his own mail and thought that was the end of it, but instead, police decided to put out a warrant on him. In fact, he himself contacted the police seeking help in an effort to retrieve his mail. Pastor Artur filled us in on all the details of the arrest, including the apparently-bogus trespassing charges levied against him for attempting to collect his mail from a Canada Post office without a mask, despite him having a medical exemption.ДЄccording to Artur, he was never served notice that he must leave. We met with Pastor Artur Pawlowski at a massive Calgary rally in support of the truck convoy that has rolled into Ottawa opposing vaccine mandates.

After a brief conversation with the officer, the pastor was placed in the back of a police cruiser before being released after agreeing to appear in court.

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Pawlowski was pulled over while driving home and the arresting officer informed him that a warrant for his arrest had been issued by Calgary police for a series of charges including disturbing the peace and trespassing. He was released shortly thereafter, and this time around he was not forced to spend the night in jail.

In the past, Cardinal Zen has also criticized the Chinese Communist Party for allegedly persecuting religious communities.Pastor Artur Pawlowski was recently arrested yet again by police, this time after attending a rally in Leduc, Alberta. The other offences listed in the act вЂ“ subversion, secession and terrorism вЂ“ can carry sentences of up to life imprisonment.ДЄlready in recent months, several Hong Kong media outlets have accused Cardinal Zen of inciting students in 2019 to revolt against a series of government measures. The new law has been internationally condemned. The charge leveled against those arrested is one of four offences under the city's National Security Act, designed to quash pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. Local media reported the arrest, saying that the law enforcement investigation focuses on alleged вЂњcollusionвЂќ by the 612 Fund with вЂњforeign forces,вЂќ in violation of the national security law imposed by Beijing in June 2020. Their arrests were confirmed by Hong Kong legal sources. In addition to the Cardinal, authorities also arrested other promoters of the fund, including well-known lawyer Margaret Ng, a former opposition MP academic Hui Po-keung and singer-songwriter Denise Ho. Three other arrestsД¬ardinal Zen was one of the trustees of the organisation, established in 2019 and dissolved in October last year. вЂњThe Holy See has learned with concern the news of Cardinal Zen's arrest and is following the evolution of the situation with extreme attention,вЂќ said the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, in response to journalistsвЂ™ questions on Thursday afternoon. The Cardinal is charged with вЂњcollusion with foreign forces,вЂќ in connection with his role as administrator of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, a fund that supported pro-democracy protesters in paying for the legal and medical expenses they faced. The Cardinal was detained on Wednesday evening by the police section set up to monitor China's national security.ДЄccording to local sources, he is currently being held at a police station for questioning. The Cardinal has reportedly been released on bail, according to reports circulated via social media by local journalists who also posted photos of Cardinal Zen outside the Wan Chai police station.ДЄs he left the police station around 11 PM Hong Kong time, the Cardinal reportedly gotВ immediatelyВ into a car, without offering any comments. Ninety-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen, who was the Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong from 2002 to 2009, was arrested on Wednesday by Hong Kong authorities.

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