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Wafaa Abdou: Reunite Wilkie Family Committee

Reunite Wilkie Family Committee: The Reunite Wilkie Family Committee is staging a demonstration at 11 a.m. on Saturday outside the Rexdale detention centre where Abdou is being held. She is scheduled to be deported back to Egypt by the end of the day, leaving Ian Wilkie, her Hamilton-born husband, and their three children behind in Ontario, according to CBC. "Coincidentally, this is also the date of her son, Yusufs, 9th birthday: a sad commentary on the lack of veracity in the Harper governments claim to support family values so far in this case," the group said in a statement and A Hamilton group is venturing to north Toronto to protest the imminent deportation of Wafaa Abdou, an Egyptian woman who is married to a Canadian. Related: Hamilton man's wife to be deported to Egypt (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.