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Canada rejects African-American's asylum claim

Published 2016-01-08, 06:21 p/m
Canada rejects African-American's asylum claim

TORONTO, Jan 8 (Reuters) - A Canadian tribunal has rejected
a claim for refugee status from an African-American man who said
he feared persecution and police abuse in the United States
based on his race, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
said on Friday.
While saying he did find Kyle Lydell Canty to have a genuine
fear of returning to his home country, adjudicator Ron Yamauchi
said that was not enough to grant asylum.
A string of shootings of black men by U.S. police over the
past 18 months have led to widespread protests and the issue has
fueled a civil rights movement under the name Black Lives
Matter.
"The Act does not protect claimants from every form of
ill-treatment, suffering, and hardship," he wrote in the
decision, dated Dec. 3. "It is addressed at situations of
persecution, which is serious harm, an interference with a basic
human right."
He added: "There are no substantial grounds to believe that
his removal to the United States of America would subject him
personally to a danger of torture."
Canty filed for asylum in September after coming to Canada
as a tourist.
It was not immediately possible to ascertain Canty's
whereabouts. He has the right to appeal the decision.
"If I receive a negative decision of my asylum application,
I'm already 10 moves ahead as far as my appeal process goes,"
Canty wrote in November. "The United States government is always
murdering, undermining and underestimating its black citizens -
and I have no intention of going back."

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