Media Coverage

City News - Asylum seekers from Egypt who’ve been living in Metro Vancouver for years, say one Canadian Border Services Agency agent has denied all their refugee requests because of Islamophobic views. Attia Elserafy is part of one of five families who say a CBSA...

The Imprisoned Blogger - People gathered on the streets protesting discrimination by a regime that has violated every human right you could conjure in your mind. They held signs to stop government actions towards some of those who were in the protesting crowd. These...

The Globe and Mail - Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are launching a campaign urging Canadian provinces to cancel arrangements with the federal government that let them detain asylum seekers and refugee claimants in provincial jails. The national...

Human Rights Watch (Ottawa) – Provincial governments should sever their contracts to hold immigration detainees in provincial jails, where many experience abusive conditions, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today in opening a joint national...

Toronto Star - The number of people being held in detention in Canada over immigration violations — including those with mental health issues and including young children — has continued to grow, despite the federal government’s promise to detain migrants only as a...

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...

CTV News  OTTAWA -- Lawyers for an Egyptian asylum-seeker are calling for increased oversight of the Canada Border Services Agency after he says his family has faced intimidation since an officer contacted authorities in his country of origin. Naseem Mithoowani said...

Middle East Monitor - The family of an Egyptian asylum seeker facing deportation from Canada are being intimidated after a Canadian official contacted authorities in Cairo. Abdelrahman Elmady says that as a result of the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA)'s...

Toronto Star - Attia Elserafy remembers taking to the streets with his family. A human rights and labour activist all his life, the 60-year-old had been encouraged, he says, by the Arab Spring and saw hope for a new and democratic Egypt. With his wife and five...

CTV News - A family who fled Egypt over fears of persecution for the father’s political activism is fighting for the right to remain in Canada. A member of the Freedom and Justice Party during the Arab Spring in 2011, Attia Elserafy said he feared for his safety after...