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STATELESS & DEPORTED....
A Picket in Solidarity with Palestinian Refugees Facing Deportation
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THURSDAY DECEMBER 1st, 11 am -> 1pm
Citizenship & Immigration Canada
715 Peel Street [corner of St. Antoine]
[metro Bonaventure]
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As dozens of Palestinian refugees in Canada continue to face imminent
deportation to the Occupied Territories, to the refugee camps in
Lebanon,
and some to the United States, where they could end up in indefinite
detention, the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees
calls on people to participate in a picket in front of Immigration
Canada
to demand an end to the deportations and an immediate regularization of
all Palestinian refugees in Canada.
During the past month - November 2005, three more Palestinians have been
deported from Montreal back to the Occupied Territories and to the
refugee
camps in Lebanon.
Exactly a year ago, on November 30, 2004 Immigration Canada deported
Ahmad
Nafaa, a stateless Palestinian refugee from Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp
in
Southern Lebanon, from Montreal to the United States where he was
detained and then released on a US$ 10,000 bond. Ahmad has since
claimed
asylum in the USA and is once again going through the entire process
under the fear of being deported again, to the refugee camps in
Lebanon.
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are systematically prevented from owning
property, working in over 70 professions, receiving proper health care,
and moving and traveling freely. The intensified mistreatment of
Palestinian refugees inside the camps has left their lives in real and
immediate peril.
Those Palestinians who have escaped the dire situation in the Occupied
Territories, face daily terror at the hands of the Israeli state, which
continues to enforce a deadly and illegal military occupation.
Palestinian
refugees from the Occupied Territories have fled from the killings,
extra-judicial assassinations, house demolitions, illegal arrests,
trials
without evidence, torture, land confiscation, and constant humiliations.
We must stand united against the injustice faced by the Palestinian
refugees who are set to be deported from Canada in the coming months.
Your
support, solidarity and participation are needed....!
In Solidarity.
the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees
Info: 514 859 9070 /
refugees@riseup.net
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