Canada Grants Asylum to Hong Kong Couple

Canada Grants Asylum to Hong Kong Couple
Protesters supporting Hong Kong gather across the road from the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles on October 1, 2020 during a global day of action called by "Resist China" (#ResistChina), a global campaign against the regime of the Chinese Communist Party. Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images
Andrew Chen
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Canada recently accepted a couple from Hong Kong as refugees, a welcoming signal to other pro-democracy activists who are forced to seek refuge abroad while the Communist government in Beijing continues to crackdown on civil rights in the former British colony.

On September 1, the couple was notified in a letter from the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada that they had been determined by the refugee protection division as “Convention refugees,” according to an exclusive interview with the Global and Mail.