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China's Human Rights Abuses |
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China's history of human rights abuses is well documented. To send Lucy back to China would be a direct violation of Canada's professed support for The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which includes the following articles:
ARTICLE 3: "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person."
ARTICLE 5: "No one shall be subjected to torture or cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment." |
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According to the Criminal Code of the People's Republic of China, even if a Chinese citizen has served time for a crime in a foreign country, that person can be re-tried for the same crime and punished further upon return to China. The death penalty is still practised in China.
This is double jeopardy and a grave injustice which is foreign to progressive concepts of human dignity.
Canada's immigration officials do not dispute that Chinese law contains such a provision, and yet they display a complete lack of compassion for a person who is facing its application.
Why? Quite frankly, we don't know. We would like you to ask the same question.
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"Lucy Lu should not be deported under United Nations conventions to which Canada has agreed, because she could face death in China. I am really saddened to hear about this woman's situation here. She seems to have established a life here that is productive. This deportation seems a tragedy in the making" |
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- Federal New Democratic Party
Candidate Gary Wilson |
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