Canada Detains Former UN Human Rights Rapporteurs Traveling to Palestine Event

Former UN special rapporteurs Richard Falk and Hilal Elver were detained and interrogated by Canadian authorities on Thursday while on their way to an event examining Canada’s role in the genocide in Gaza and continued abuses against Palestinians. Falk, who turned 95 on the day he was detained, said that officials deemed he and his wife posed a “national security threat” to the country upon…

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