The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has deported a senior Iranian official after a Federal Court judge rejected his bid to halt his removal from Canada.
The CBSA confirmed in an Aug. 18 email to The Epoch Times that it removed Syed Salman Samani after the Federal Court of Canada dismissed his appeal.
Justice Sébastien Grammond noted that Samani, 45, was deputy minister and spokesperson in Iran’s Ministry of Interior and wielded significant power and influence. The ministry oversees the country’s police forces, which killed civilians and committed other human rights abuses during “Bloody November” in 2019.
As the ministry’s spokesperson, Samani publicly defended the government’s conduct during Bloody November and threatened politicians who questioned it, Grammond wrote. Samani later told the CBSA that his ministry had done nothing wrong during the clampdown….