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Canada Denies Entry To Retired CRPF Officer Over Alleged Human Rights Violations
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A retired Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officer was denied entry into Canada at Vancouver International Airport last week. Tejinder Singh Dhillon, who retired in 2010 as Inspector-General of Police in the CRPF was declared ‘inadmissible’ to Canada because he was employed by a government deemed by immigration officials as involved in “terrorism, systematic or gross human rights violations, or genocide”.
Dhillon, who said he held a Canadian visa that is valid till 2024, has made multiple trips to the North American nation over the last 30 years, even when he was a CRPF official. However, officials at Vancouver refused entry, saying the CRPF has “committed widespread and systemic human rights abuses, for example torture, arbitrary detention, murder and sexual assault”.
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