(Canadian) Teen refugee sent to Mexico to get new hearing

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(Canadian) Teen refugee sent to Mexico to get new hearing

Edited on Tue Apr-19-11 01:40 PM by alp227

Source: CBC News

Ontario's highest court has ordered a new hearing for a Mexican teen who was granted refugee status in Canada but was later sent back to her country.

Josette Rosenzweig Issasi, 14, had been living in Canada for 21 months when she was granted refugee status in September 2010.

She came to live in Toronto and successfully applied for refugee status after alleging her mother beat her in Cancun, Mexico.

But the Ontario Superior Court of Justice then ordered that she be sent back to Mexico after her mother, Marlen Rodriguez Issasi, appealed the board's decision. Rodriguez Issasi said the refugee board's ruling violated an article concerning child abduction under the Hague Convention, an international treaty.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/04/19/teen-refugee-status-rosenzweig321.html

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