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By immlawyer

Just reading R Cuthbertson's article in the Herald "Home to Haiti? Refugee's plight highlights system's challenges". The article is about "Marie", represented by this office, who was refused refugee protection by RPD Board Member Preeti Adhopia about a week before the devastating earthquake in Haiti:

"If what has happened to my client [gang rape while her 5 year old daughter hid; murders of a brother and a sister] isn't atrocious and appalling, I don't know what is," Harsanyi says. "Haiti is the rape capital of the western hemisphere. To return my client to that is fundamentally wrong."

Full post as published by Canadian Immigration Blawg on April 03, 2010 (boomark / email).