Ministry of public safety says it is seeking more details about questioning of scholar Richard Falk at Toronto airport.
Montreal, Canada – Canadian human rights activists are demanding answers from their government after a former United Nations special rapporteur who investigated Israeli abuses against Palestinians was interrogated at the Canadian border on “national security” grounds.
Richard Falk, 95, was stopped at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Thursday and questioned for several hours. He said a security official told him that Canada had concerns that he and his wife, fellow legal scholar Hilal Elver, posed “a danger to the national security of Canada”.
The treatment of the couple has sparked anger and calls for an explanation from Ottawa.
“We need answers – and from the highest levels of government,” said Corey Balsam, national coordinator at Independent
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