The former refugee to Canada is scheduled to be deported January 12th. Last minute appeals hinge on whether he will get a fair trial in Rwanda.
From CBC News:
A man accused of playing a role in the Rwandan genocide could be deported next week unless he convinces Canadian officials he won’t receive a fair trial at home.
Leon Mugesera has lived in Quebec since 1993 and was granted permanent resident status.
However, in 1995 the Canadian government learned of allegations that Mugesera gave a speech three years earlier at a political meeting in Rwanda, inciting party militants to kill Tutsis. According to court documents, killings took place the next day.
Mugesera’s name appears on a list prepared by the American State Department of those implicated in the genocide in Rwanda.
He has been fighting and delaying orders for his deportation for more than 15 years.
In early December, Canada’s Immigration Ministry handed down an 80-page decision that stated Mugesera’s life would not be in danger if he was returned to his home country to stand trial.
His lawyer is arguing that as long as he doesn’t do anything bad in Canada, as a refugee, he should get to stay.
As a refugee, she said, her client shouldn’t be deported unless he has been convicted of a crime and is deemed a threat to the host country.
Does that mean that any fugitive Islamic terrorist who happens to get into Canada as a refugee, can stay as long as he eschews his former terrorist ways—-for how long? Until he does his next terror act?