8 months in terminal limbo

January 25, 2007

Lacking papers, a family fleeing persecution can’t be forced back to Iran, but now finds that there’s nowhere to go
January 25, 2007
Nicholas Keung
IMMIGRATION/DIVERSITY REPORTER

An Iranian woman and her two children have been stranded in a Moscow airport for more than eight months while en route to seek asylum in Canada to be united with her brother, her only overseas relative.
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Tehran trip dismays colleagues
St. Francis Xavier prof presented paper at forum attended by Holocaust deniers
Dec. 14, 2006. 06:04 AM
MICHELE HENRY
STAFF REPORTER

Colleagues of a Canadian professor who spoke at a widely condemned conference in Tehran this week are outraged and dismayed by his presence at the event, which provided an open forum for Holocaust deniers.

Samuel Kalman, an assistant professor of European history at St. Francis Xavier University, was still reeling yesterday from the news that Shiraz Dossa, a political science professor at the Nova Scotia institution, attended the conference called “Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision,” which attracted the likes of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
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