Time to update the story about Jeremy Hinzman, his wife Nga Nguyen and their son Liam. now almost 2. I wrote about this in February, the link is Exile in Canada, again.
The Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) hearing in Toronto for Jeremy Hinzman began this week. The hearing is open because Jeremy exercised his right under Canadian law that the IRB hearing be open. He commented that he feared that unless the process was transparent and all the testimony available to the Government, public and press, that Canadians would find his claim that an American could be entitled to protection by Canada as a political refugee to be a "preposterous proposition".
That's kind of hard to get my head around. The Elashi brothers were sent up the river by Ashcroft on a bogus charge simply because they ran the .iq top-level nameservers. The Detroit "sleeper cell" defendents were nearly sent up river by a career fink killed last October in Baghdad, and this is not an exhaustive list.
For the IRB to make an affirmative determination it needs to find
Here is a Canadian Engilsh Google to at least 50 items in the free (Northern) press link.
[1] Under US law, even if the disobedience is punished, rather than the converse, or illegal under International law, even if there is no access to International law.