Commentary
According to Amnesty International, a prisoner of conscience is “someone who has not used or advocated violence or hatred in the circumstances leading to their imprisonment but is imprisoned solely because of who they are (sexual orientation, ethnic, national or social origin, language, birth, colour, sex or economic status) or what they believe (religious, political or other conscientiously held beliefs).”
Does Tamara Lich fit that description?
Tamara Lich has not used violence or advocated hatred. Was she arrested and jailed because of her conscientiously held belief that the government’s mandatory vaccination and lockdown policies are unjustified violations of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and for acting on this belief through involvement in the peaceful Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa this winter?…