Refugee Appeal Division

• ‘Please help me’: Okanagan woman issues desperate appeal as deportation looms

  Lea Thorne, a South African citizen, travelled to the Okanagan on a visitor's visa in 2013 — and never left.

  Jan 12, 2021
  
• ‘I will fight until I have no breath left’: Okanagan woman fights deportation

  In 2017, Thorne filed for refugee protection. She said she was the victim of sexual violence and fears for her life should she be forced to return home.

  Jul 15, 2019
  
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• Refugee claimant, in Canada since 2015, complicit in ISIS crimes against humanity, tribunal says

  A Lebanese mechanic now living in Canada has been found complicit in crimes against humanity for repairing military vehicles for ISIS.

  Canada

  Apr 18, 2019