Criminal Waiting To Be Deported Suing Canadian Government For $65M (CAD) – IOTW Report

Criminal Waiting To Be Deported Suing Canadian Government For $65M (CAD)

DC: A convicted criminal awaiting deportation back to Burundi is suing the Canadian government for $65 million CAD ($49 million USD) because he alleges his Charter rights were violated while in a detention center.

As CBC News reports, Prosper Niyonzima came to Canada in 1995 as a refugee in the aftermath of the Rwandan civil war and genocide. But he was headed for deportation after a series of criminal convictions for breaking and entering, theft and drug trafficking. He had been in a detention center since 2012 but was let out on a temporary resident permit. He has been making full use of free legal aid available to anyone awaiting deportation. 

In a lawsuit filed on Oct. 29 in Ontario, Niyonzima said he experienced a severe mental collapse in 2013 that left him catatonic.

In 2017, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presented convicted terrorist and killer Omar Khadr with a formal apology and $10.5 million (CAD) because he believed the former Guantanamo Bay detainee’s Charter rights had been violated. Khadr had not yet taken the Canadian government to court to demand “compensation.”  more

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