Political Prisoner Leslie Bory Receives 2025 George Orwell Free Speech Award

Political Prisoner Leslie Bory Receives 2025 George Orwell Free Speech Award TORONTO, March 26, 2026. Tonight Canadian political prisoner Leslie Bory of Brantford received the 2026 George Orwell Free Speech Award from the Canadian Association for Free Expression.
Mr. Bory was arrested at his place of work in February 23, 2024. He was charged under Secs. 319 and 318 of Canada’s notorious “hate law” for “wilfully promoting hate against” one of Canada’s privileged protected groups; namely, Jews.
He was also charged with promoting genocide in broadcasts on his Brantford News podcast. While gunmen, even murderers, are granted bail in Canada’s notoriously lax “justice” system, just as in the former Soviet Union, political dissidents are often denied bail. This was the situation with Mr. Bory who spent 23 months in the Maplehurst detention Centre, denied bail. He was twice beaten while in prison. At trial, in early 2025, he was found guilty and sentence to time served. Both the Crown and Mr. Bory are appealing. Mr. Bory complains that he was unable to mount an adequate defence, including quoting from the Talmud to argue the truth of his statements.
In making the presentation, CAFE director Paul Fromm stated that Mr. Bory was receiving the Orwell Award “for Outstanding Courage In Challenging Censorship and Defending Freedom In Pursuit of the Truth and for enduring prison and 23 months denial of bail and assaults in order to broadcast and expose the dark forces that threaten freedom in Canada and for dedication as a political candidate to fight for the rights and dignity of working men and women.”

CAFE took over the annual Orwell Awards in 2021 continuing a Tradition begun by the late Douglas Hewson Christie, “The Battling Barrister” and the Canadian Free Speech League.
Mr. Bory received greetings from a number of well wishers across North America. Texas videographer Diane King, who with Jim Rizoli, concentrate on truth telling about WW II, wrote: “When I learned of this 2026 event, I wondered as I always have, who has been selected to receive the award. Every time when I learn of the recipient’s name, I think to myself, “what a perfect choice!” That’s how I felt when I saw Leslie Bory’s name on the invitation. Congratulations, Les. I’m truly glad it’s not necessary to extend to you these congratulations in prison. I’m further glad that I no longer need to correspond with you during your prison confinement as you await your sentencing (after 2 years) for your crime against the state in exercising your free speech.
However, just a tip: I’d highly recommend that you receive this award quickly before they charge you again with yet another inevitable free speech crime making you a candidate for the 2027 George Orwell Award. Congratulations!!!! Best to you IN CHRIST.”
Former political prisoner (in Germany) Monika Schaefer, who, with her brother Alfred, who is again in prison in Germany, received the 2022 George Orwell Free Speech Award, messaged:” First let me say, what joy I felt when I learned that you were to receive the 2026 George Orwell Free Speech Award. Congratulations! You well deserve this honour! I wish I could celebrate this honour with you in person, but that is not to be right now. And thank you Paul, for being such a dedicated truth warrior and free-speech advocate and for keeping this tradition of the Orwell Awards alive, among all the other work that you do, so tirelessly. Thank you Paul!
Okay, I think the first time that I ever talked with Leslie Bory must have been almost 10 years ago, when he phoned me from Ontario just to give me encouragement and moral support, from both himself and his wife, after I had made that fateful video “Sorry Mom, I was Wrong About the Holocaust”, and was experiencing some pushback (putting it mildly). He let me know that he agreed with my interpretation of history, and that he and his wife both wished me all the very best, and if I ever needed help that I could ask and he would do whatever was in his power to help me. Sometime after that I did meet Leslie in person, and we have been friends ever since. What I found so refreshing is Les’ great sense of humour, which came out in some of his videos. These videos had me in stitches, like when he talked about the “lampshade people” or the “lampshade mafia” at his all-candidates forums.
Speaking of all-candidates forums, Les Bory has incredible perseverance and tenacity, running in so many elections, always sticking his neck out, saying what needs to be said, though not always the popular thing. What this perseverance says about Les Bory is that he has this quality of never losing hope, always with a positive energy, a can-do attitude, always working towards making things right.
Les Bory is a man of strong principles combined with a compassion for his fellow man, and these principles are what led him to make some bold statements which got him into trouble with the PTSNB (Powers That Should Not Be). While in jail, Les faced incredible hardships, and yet, he kept his spirits up (as far as I could tell, from his letters!) and carried on with good work, writing several short books, and educating his fellow prisoners. Undaunted, Les doesn’t just sit back on his laurels, he continues to work hard, trying to enlighten people about what’s going on, and in true optimistic fashion continues within the political sphere.
This year’s George Orwell Award is going to a truly deserving man, and I whole-heartedly applaud you my friend, Leslie Bory!

A fellow Canadian Wilton wrote: ” “Covid was a hard go for me, being fired from 2 jobs because I refused to take an experimental gene therapy class drug. I was disillusioned and angry because my concept of the True North, Strong and Free was shattered into 6 million pieces. During my forced downtime I happened upon Les’ Bitchute channel Brantford News, and he spoke to something truly Canadian inside of me. Les’ passionate rants about the utter tyranny we were experiencing in Canada gave me a sense of community, that I wasn’t the only one feeling so outraged. Les is a beacon of light in a deepening twilight, and I hope he becomes the leader Canada needs.