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A prominent academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.
Richard Falk, a retired Princeton University professor who was a special rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, was on his way to Ottawa to speak at the Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility on Friday and Saturday.
But upon arriving at customs at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Thursday with his wife, he says border agents took their passports and led them to an interview room.
He said border agents told him they needed to determine whether he and his wife were a national security threat to Canada.
“That never happened to me in my long life,” said Falk. Thursday also happened to be his 95th birthday, he said.
“It's disappointing that Canada — after having acknowledged Palestinian statehood — would take such a hostile attitude toward a very forthright conference that really explained to a public, that hasn't been so well-informed, the nature of the objections to what Israel has been doing,” he said.
“One expects Canada to be a model of free speech and liberal democracy and it's not as bad as the U.S., but it's not as good as I would hope.”
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/richa...ence-9.6980514
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