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Mar. 15th, 2007 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ltmurnauIranian woman caught in legal limbo detained at Vancouver airport
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/03/15/kamalfar-family.html
Short summary:
Iranian woman and her two children flee Iran in 2004 after her husband was executed and she was jailed for attending an anti-government political rally. Using false documents, she intends to enter Canada via Germany and Russia, but gets snagged in Frankfurt, bumped to Russia, interpreter problems, she and the kids stay in a motel in Moscow under house arrest for 4 months. In May/June of 2006 the Russian authorities leave them at Moscow airport for the next 11 months, where they sleep on the floor and beg food from the airport workers. This week the federal government decides to let them in as government-sponsored immigrants, her plane lands and her supporters and relatives do not see her - she is detained for smoking on the plane!
[edit: she was only detained for an hour, but there are some things up with which Canadians will not put....]
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/03/15/kamalfar-family.html
Short summary:
Iranian woman and her two children flee Iran in 2004 after her husband was executed and she was jailed for attending an anti-government political rally. Using false documents, she intends to enter Canada via Germany and Russia, but gets snagged in Frankfurt, bumped to Russia, interpreter problems, she and the kids stay in a motel in Moscow under house arrest for 4 months. In May/June of 2006 the Russian authorities leave them at Moscow airport for the next 11 months, where they sleep on the floor and beg food from the airport workers. This week the federal government decides to let them in as government-sponsored immigrants, her plane lands and her supporters and relatives do not see her - she is detained for smoking on the plane!
[edit: she was only detained for an hour, but there are some things up with which Canadians will not put....]
