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whole world could prevent it, it would mean that if people are deprived and innocent they might be kidnapped and taken to another country

by force. It would mean that demonstrative humiliations over human rights, such as the IRB members and Mrs. Murphy expressed, are

tolerated. There are rumors among UN staff that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights might be changed soon to fit to the brutal and

ultra-religious regimes' requirements. Please, do something for us before it happened!

The only way to save us is to help us in obtaining the permanent residents status in any civilized country. That could prevent our eventual

removal to Israel.

Please, help!

Family GUNIN:

Alla, Lev, Ina, and Marta GUNIN

Elisabeth EPSTEIN-Gunin

Tel. [phone]

E-mail: [[e-mail]]

From Lev GUNIN, April, 1999

Dear Friends!

In 1991 I was deported from my native Belarus to Warsaw because of my political opinion.

Together with my family (wife and 2 children) and my mother I wanted to move from Warsaw

to Germany.

On the Central railway station in Warsaw we were captured by Israelis and were taken to Israel

against our will.

We were widely persecuted in Israel and were refused an exit vise during 3 and a half years.

In 1994 we managed to quit Israel and came to Canada seeking a refugee status.

In an outraged manner, openly accenting their rights for injustice, the members of IRB

committee refused us the status.

Deportation to Israel means death for me and members of my family.

The only solution is to start a legal immigration to Canada.

But we need travel documents to afford it because:

1) our Israeli passports have expired and to extend them is not possible

2) I asked the Israeli embassy to cancel my Israeli citizenship

We made an appeal to the Federal Court, but our appeal was automatically rejected

without any analysis of our file, just because of the formula that the Immigration and

Refugee Board used in their conclusive decision. In the Federal Court, the Immigration

Canada representative, Mrs. Murphy, expressed outraged accusations against me,

as if by claiming a refugee status and by criticizing the IRB decision I have committed

the most violent crime or was a terrorist.

Almost 5 years we (my family, and me) live under a threat of deportation,

under the wild persecutions of the Immigration Canada, institution, which

put the equal sign between my peaceful and legal human rights activism

against the former Soviet and Israeli governments' violation of human rights

– and terrorism!!!

Please, help us!

My best wishes,

Lev GUNIN

August, 1997

E-Mail: [e-mail]

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DOCUMENT NUMBER 5

From Lev Gunin

File number 3082-7125

CONCLUSIVE DECISION

(Paragraph 69.1 (9) of Immigration Law)

This is the translation in brief

P.1. Paragraph 1. Lev Gunin, Marta and Ina Gunin, Alla Gunin, and Elisabeth Epstein are not recognized as refugees. Paragraphs 4-7. This

is demanders' declaration in brief: They came to Israel in April 1991. When they arrived in Petach-Tikva theirs neighbors, orthodox Jews,

were persistent [and aggressive] in their attempts to convert them [from atheism from one side, and passive Christianity from another side]

to Judaism.

Children, then 5 and 6 years old [*1] - (see commentaries), were abused during a religious celebration at a kinder-garden [*2]. The governor

has found the situation ordinary. Dispute the transfer to another kinder-garden children faced abuses. They were bitten, bite by another

children [*3]. The kinder-garden administration refused to protect them.

Demander was mocked by the employers [*4] and bitten by his colleagues because he is not a true Jew.

P.2. His wife has difficulties in finding a job [*5] , and when she was at least hired she was insulted, bitten and - under certain circumstances

– became a victim of a sexual harassment[*6].

There were multiple insults and abuses from theirs neighbors, who were furious because demanders in their eyes are not true Jews.

They turned to police in innumerous occasions with no results. One time police itself abused and ill-treated the demander under certain

circumstances. His lawyer told him that nothing could be done against police.

They contacted innumerous organizations including Amnesty International. They wrote to members of parliament and contacted a number

of lawyers with no result [*7]. The demander also said that he was persecuted because of denouncing fascism [7-a].

Demander's mother also became a victim of multiple aggressions. She was attacked by a group of youngsters when she went to pick up

the children from school [*8]. Policemen at the police station refused to pay an attention to that incident.

In Nov. 1993 she was attacked by her neighbor; she stroke her by a basket with oranges and cried to her "goy!". It tool place at a market.

In January 1994 in company with her children she went to pick them up from school, when she was attacked by a group of youngsters, who

thrown stones at her and injured her [*9].

One evening in 1994 [*10] youngsters, friends of their neighbor, have thrown a little box at her door [*11]. She composed a letter to police in