{"id":7222,"date":"2022-02-13T23:53:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T04:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=7222"},"modified":"2022-02-13T23:54:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T04:54:39","slug":"cafe-supported-political-prisoner-dr-james-sears-picketed-toronto-south-detention-centre-sunday-february-13-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=7222","title":{"rendered":"CAFE SUPPORTED POLITICAL PRISONER DR. JAMES SEARS & PICKETED TORONTO SOUTH DETENTION CENTRE, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY\u00a0 13, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CAFE SUPPORTED POLITICAL PRISONER DR. JAMES SEARS & PICKETED TORONTO SOUTH DETENTION CENTRE, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY\u00a0 13, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


On February 3, former political prisoner and editor of the satirical tabloid YOUR WARD NEWS Dr. James Sears was arrested at gunpoint in the parking lot having just seen his parole officer for his regular visit. He is charged with “breach of probation”, but has not yet (as of February 12) received the particulars or the paperwork. He will have a hearing by telephone on February 17.
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As part of our mission to support freedom of speech and the victims of tyrannical censorship laws, the Canadian Association for Free Expression (CAFE)\u00a0 held a protest outside the Toronto South Detention Centre located at 160 Horner Ave, Toronto, ON M8Z 0C2,\u00a0 Sunday afternoon, February 13. Whew, it was cold.
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The website of the poisonous taxpayer-funded Canadian Anti-Hate Network suggests that the issue may be comments he made in jest about Teresa Tam in his talk after CAFE gave him the George Orwell Free Speech award soon after he got out of jail. We have a strong suspicion we know which liberty-hating individual in Ottawa made the complaint.
Those of us who cherish freedom owe it to our values\u00a0 to demonstrate and support Dr. Sears. These protests matter. Guards told him last fall that they knew for a fact that CAFE’s protests — six in all last year — were a factor in his being granted early parole.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Amnesty International defines a  “prisoner of conscience” or political prisoner as  a person punished solely for the non-violent expression of their political, religious or cultural views. Both Dr. James Sears and Leroy St. Germaine are political prisoners — jailed because they criticized politically powerful minority groups. Free speech activist Raychyl Whyte has been lobbying Amnesty to adopt Dr. Sears as a “prisoner of conscience”
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* A lasting disgrace is that only one mainstream media writer has  criticized this attack on freedom of the press, which they regularly condemn if it occurs in Hong Kong or the Philippines.
FREE POLITICAL PRISONER, DR. JAMES SEARS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PLEASE SEND POSTCARDS OR LETTERS OF SUPPORT TO ONE OF OUR MEN BEHIND THE WIRE.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Dr. James Sears, Political Prisoner,
Toronto South Detention Center,
160 Horner Ave,
Toronto, ON
M8Z 0C2
   CANADA
<\/strong>_______________________CAFE (The Canadian Association for Free Expression)<\/strong>P.O. Box 332,<\/strong>Rexdale, ON.,<\/strong>M9W 5L3<\/strong>
<\/strong>416-428-5308<\/strong>
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