A senior police officer with China’s Public Security Bureau and his wife have been denied residency in Canada after a judge found reasonable grounds to believe he had engaged in “crimes against humanity.”
Justice Shirzad Ahmed of the Federal Court of Canada said in his March 13 decision that he believed a decision made by an immigration officer in September 2024 to refuse the couple’s application for permanent residency was “reasonable.”
The immigration officer had determined that there were reasonable grounds to believe the senior Chinese police officer was “complicit in crimes against humanity,” and therefore determined that he and his wife were inadmissible to Canada under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act….