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Aug. 13th, 2007 12:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusAlvaro Orozco has gone into hiding. He's the one I posted about yesterday, whose claim was rejected because the one-person refugee board didn't believe he was gay.
Thanks to his refugee bid, he made national headlines in his native Nicaragua. He's now a very public figure there, too. Given how common anti-gay violence is there, sending him back now would very likely be a death sentence.
NDP MP Olivia Chow is trying to convince Diane Finley to grant him amnesty. Toronto's gay community, where he's been living, has been speaking up in his defence (they apparently have no problem vouching for his homosexuality). Retired Liberal MP and former Liberal House leader Bill Graham is still tirelessly working on Orozco's behalf.
Whoever's taken him in has my respect. Breaking the law because your conscience demands it is one of the hardest things a person is ever called upon to do.
Let's hope he isn't deported before a sane government is elected.
Thanks to his refugee bid, he made national headlines in his native Nicaragua. He's now a very public figure there, too. Given how common anti-gay violence is there, sending him back now would very likely be a death sentence.
NDP MP Olivia Chow is trying to convince Diane Finley to grant him amnesty. Toronto's gay community, where he's been living, has been speaking up in his defence (they apparently have no problem vouching for his homosexuality). Retired Liberal MP and former Liberal House leader Bill Graham is still tirelessly working on Orozco's behalf.
Whoever's taken him in has my respect. Breaking the law because your conscience demands it is one of the hardest things a person is ever called upon to do.
Let's hope he isn't deported before a sane government is elected.