Kevin J. Johnston gets 18 months in jail for violating hate speech order against Paramount Fine Foods owner
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Kevin J. Johnston has been sentenced to 18 months behind bars for publicly branding Mohamad Fakih a "terrorist" and a "baby killer" after being ordered to stop defaming the Paramount Fine Foods owner in 2019.
The sentence comes after Johnston was charged earlier this year with contempt for continuing to make racist, defamatory statements about Fakih despite an Ontario judge having ordered him to stop, finding he exhibited "hate speech at its worst, targeting people solely because of their religion."
Justice Fred Myers said Monday that Johnston was not being sentenced for his political views but for six separate acts of contempt against court. Myers sentenced Johnston to three months per act, to begin after he is legally allowed back in Ontario, starting Jan. 4, 2022.
The sentence comes just weeks after Johnston, a Calgary mayoral candidate, also pleaded guilty to a hate crime in connection for anti-Muslim posts online.
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