By LOUISA TAYLOR, The Ottawa Citizen August 2, 2011

OTTAWA — Here is what we know about Mathurin Prince. Born in Haiti, he’s 50 and once lived in Gloucester. The Canadian government says he applied for refugee status, but was found to have violated “human or international rights” and is inadmissible to Canada. He vanished sometime after being scheduled for deportation. Last week Prince and 29 other men found inadmissible to Canada for the same reasons have been named in Canada’s first list of people “most wanted” for deportation.

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Tuesday, August 2, 2011, 07:22, Times of Malta

Hundreds of asylum-seekers clashed with riot police near an immigrant centre in the southern Italian city of Bari yesterday in a protest to demand refugee status that left dozens lightly injured. Protesters hurled rocks and metal bars at police lines, set off fires and trashed the facility on the outskirts of Bari. Police responded with tear gas and live rounds fired into the air and 30 protesters were arrested. The rioters blocked a main road and railway for several hours, disrupting regional train services and car traffic. A passing bus was also wrecked.

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2 August 2011- Amnesty International Canada has written to Ministers Toews and Kenney in an open letter about thirty individuals accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity believed to be residing in Canada who are “Wanted by the CBSA”. Amnesty International is concerned that the initiative does not conform to Canada’s obligations with respect to human rights and international justice. Amnesty International strongly supports efforts to bring them to justice through criminal law rather than immigration enforcement measures. They should be extradited to face justice not deported. If they are just deported they may not face any further investigation or criminal charges. And they cannot be deported under Canada’s international human rights obligations if they face the possibility of serious human rights violations. In those cases, when they cannot be returned, under the principle of universal jurisdiction for these serious crimes they should be brought to justice in Canada.

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By RICK GOLDMAN, The Gazette July 28, 2011

Salma (not her real name) has trouble talking about her past without breaking down. While still a student in her civil-war-torn homeland, she was recruited into the student arm of the opposition movement. She helped run meetings, sometimes serving coffee and taking minutes, and was involved in organizing peaceful demonstrations. Years later, after peace accords were signed and the movement became a legal political party, she again volunteered during an election campaign. Salma says she inadvertently came across evidence of illegal activities and was then targeted by party officials, who first threatened and then brutally assaulted her. She fled to Canada to seek asylum. But Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board found that her involvement in the movement, which had a guerrilla arm that had targeted some civilians during the civil war, excluded her from being considered for refugee protection in Canada. Even though a Canadian government official confirmed that Salma was never involved in any act of violence and posed no danger to Canada, she was deemed to be “complicit in crimes against humanity.”

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Natasha Walter, Guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 27 July 2011 22.00 BST

When the government announced last year that it would end the detention of children for immigration purposes, it felt as if a ray of sunshine had broken into a debate that had become increasingly dark and cruel. I work alongside women and children who have fled persecution to seek asylum in this country. Too many are disbelieved by decision makers, and refused leave to remain. They can then be forced into destitution, locked up, or dragged to an airport. Yet their experiences are shrouded in a darkness made up of both ignorance and hostility.

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