Government & Politics

Activist’s deportation case adds to increased calls for oversight of border services Abdelrahman Elmady says he was deemed a security threat over his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

(CBC) An Egyptian human rights activist is fighting to stay in Vancouver, saying the political affiliations that forced him to seek asylum in Canada are now being used to justify his deportation. In 2011, Abdelrahman Elmady joined other Egyptians in an uprising against the […]

Children & Teens

Girl’s beatings livestreamed

(Otago Daily Times) A teenage refugee was subjected to protracted, livestreamed beatings by her own family after supposedly bringing shame on them, a court has heard. “What’s just absolutely appalling is that she was hit so many times she couldn’t tell the […]