London bookstore owner Marc Emery was released from jail Friday after spending three days in Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre for refusing to pay a fine.
Emery was convicted of operating his City Lights Bookstore at 356 Richmond St on July 12 - a Sunday. He said he would go to jail rather than pay the $500 fine for carrying on business on a Sunday. He was arrested Tuesday.
Had the fine not been paid - from money donated by store customers - Emery would have served a longer sentence.
He called his time in jail "a very sobering experience and a look at a harsh lifestyle." But, he said, that will not stop him from breaking the Sunday shopping law again.
His actions, he has said, are a deliberate attempt to generate publicity against laws requiring businesses to close on Sundays.
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