Posted by admin on Aug 2nd, 2008
Mary Frances Hill. Vancouver Sun. Saturday, August 02, 2008
After 15 years of living in the city, Morteza (Mori) Momenzadeh Tameh is one step closer to calling Canada his permanent home. Federal Court of Appeal Justice Anne Mactavish concluded the Canada Border Services Agency didn’t have enough relevant information about Tameh’s controversial past in his native Iran before denying him permanent residency status. “There’s been a heavy weight on my shoulders for 15 years,” Tameh said Friday. “I put that weight down the day I heard this decision.” The ruling was dated July 18.
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Posted by admin on Jul 14th, 2008
Mary Frances Hill. Vancouver Sun. Monday, July 14, 2008
To his neighbours, “Mori” Momenzadeh Tameh is a business owner, a volunteer and a longtime Vancouverite. To the Canadian government, he could be a threat to national security. After 14 years of living and working in the city as a convention refugee, Tameh brings his fight for permanent residency to the Federal Court of Canada on Wednesday. He’s locked in a battle to become a permanent resident of Canada – a status denied him due to what Canadian immigration authorities contend is an affiliation with the terrorist group Mujahedin-El-Klaq.
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Posted by admin on Jul 12th, 2008
Mr. Momenzadeh Tameh is an accepted Convention Refugee. After 14 years in limbo, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and Minister Stockwell Day recently determined that he was “inadmissible to Canada on security grounds” and denied him Ministerial Relief and thus permanent residency in Canada. This occurred despite Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) – based on information from CSIS- positively recommending that Mr. Tameh be granted Ministerial Relief to become a permanent resident and despite CSIS, CIC, and CBSA all explicitly stating that Mr. Tameh is ‘not a danger to Canadian society.’
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Posted by admin on Jul 5th, 2008
Wednesday, July 16th @ 9:30 am – 11:30 am. Federal Court Building. 701 West Georgia Street on the 3rd floor
This is a critically important security-related situation that requires your support. Please come out! A recent June 2008 report reveals that thousands of refugees in Canada are living in legal precarity and limbo due to security checks and processes. The ever-expanding security apparatus is less about protecting society than it is about creating a culture of fear and stigmatization in the post 9/11 climate.
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Posted by admin on Jun 27th, 2008
Stewart Bell, National Post. Published: Thursday, June 26, 2008
TORONTO — Canadian security officials kept a close watch on aboriginal rights protests across the country last summer, fearing violence and disruption, according to newly declassified government documents. Intelligence reports obtained by National Post reveal for the first time how the Canadian government tracked “ongoing and planned protests” by First Nations and their supporters from British Columbia to the Maritimes. The Integrated Threat Assessment Centre, based at CSIS headquarters and made up of representatives of CSIS, the RCMP, Canadian Forces and other departments, circulated lists of protestors’ plans in a series of intelligence reports.
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