TORONTO – Canada is establishing a dedicated refugee stream for “human rights defenders,” including journalists, who may need to seek asylum to escape persecution in their country, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Marco Mendicino said on July 16.
Reuters: Canada to welcome ‘human rights defenders’, including journalists, as refugees
Secretary General and Executive Director of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Christophe Deloire (C) poses with a photo of detained Belarus journalist Roman Protasevich while other activists pose with photos of other detained Belarus journalists to protest against the arbitrary detention of Protasevich and nearly twenty other reporters, at the Lithuanian-Belarus border in Salcininkai, Lithuania on May 27, 2021.
