- Target:
- Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Jason Kenney
- Region:
- Canada
Stop the Deportation of Toronto Queer Rights Activist Augustas Dennie!
MEDIA ADVISORY
Community rallies behind gay-bashed refugee facing deportation
Friends and supporters of Augustas Dennie will gather at the 519 Community Centre on November 1, 2012 to make a last ditch effort to stay his deportation to St. Vincent and Grenadines, which he escaped after being beaten for being gay. Since his arrival in Canada, Augustas has become an integral part of Toronto's Black Gay community, volunteering at the Black Coalition for Aids Prevention, Rainbow Health Network and building friendships and community.
Augustas fled to Canada in 2010, seeking safety from his attackers who, in 2009, beat him with a bottle of Hennessy cognac fracturing his skull and leaving him with memory loss, seizures, and limited function in his right hand. Most recently the same attacker has threatened Augustas' life if he returns to St.Vincent and the Grenadines. His deportation date has been set for Thursday November 8th and friends and community members call on the government to stay his deportation.
We, the undersigned, call on the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness to stop the deportation of a queer rights activist, long time member of Caribbean-Canadian community, refugee claimant, friend and colleague, Augustas Dennie, pending a decision on his humanitarian and compassionate application and the judicial review of his pre-removal risk assessment.
We urge the Immigration Minister to grant Augustas immigration status on humanitarian and compassionate basis as soon as possible, and that in the meantime to ensure that he stays in Canada with his friends and community, and the medical support he deserves.
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The Stop the Deportation of Augustas Dennie petition to Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Jason Kenney was written by Craig Fortier and is in the category Human Rights at GoPetition.