Human Rights Committee: Rare Move

Affectionate Person Dept: In a rare move, the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva this week asked Canada to hold off deporting Audley Horace Gardner the same day the 48-year-old was escorted back to Kingston, according to The Star. My uncle is not always in an erratic state. He is not always hallucinating, said Marcia Reid, 36, Gardner s niece and legal guardian. He is a wonderful and affectionate person and ottawa has defied a United Nations committee s request and deported a mentally ill immigrant to Jamaica, where he has no family and limited access to treatment. Gardner, who had been sponsored to Canada by one of his four sisters here 31 years ago, was stripped of his permanent resident status after being convicted of three separate assaults dating back to 2005 offences a forensic psychiatrist attributed to schizophrenia. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.