Лев Гунин - ГУЛаг Палестины

license to teach music, can not run his small busyness, can not be employed in his profession 3) When he

once received a request to compose music for a performance - and did it, - he was then rejected because "it is

not possible to have the name of somebody who's not accepted by the state on public place" 4) He once was

admitted to a Jewish choral, but later was refused "because if he could claim a refugee status from Israel, he's

an enemy of Israel"! 5) When the Russian school "Fillipok" (now renamed and called "Gramota") was in a

desperate need of a Russian speaking music teacher - even then Leo was refused on political ground 6)

Russian newspapers in Montreal refuse to publish not just his articles but even his adds; for example,

Info-Bulletin's editor/publisher told him that she lived many years in Israel, and Leo's articles published in

ex-USSR and in Israel with critics of the Israeli human rights situation abused her patriotism: that's why she

refused to place his adds! 7) All potential employers who could hire him as a musician used to say that they

knew or heard about his "anarchism" - and did not want to employ him because of that. When he responded

that he's not an anarchist or terrorist but a human rights activist they said that for them it is just the same 8) Leo

are refused even a voluntary performances, even without being paid. Rozhinsky, the organizer of the "Russian

Winter" musical festival, is permanently restricting Leo from the festival because of the political reasons 9) Leo

completed a course of security agents but was refused a license because of his immigration situation 10) Leo

was many times refused employment in computer technology, HTML programming, computer networks or

computer rooms maintenance, programs installation or software testing because he's "a kind of hacker or

terrorist". Nobody never told him where they obtained that referral from. Even such enterprises as Copie

Express refused to employ him! 11) Leo did thousands attempts to find a full time above minimum wage work

and was never hired. He believes that all such persecutions are somehow conducted from Immigration and

from Jewish environment 12) From all newspapers where Leo turned to as a journalist (such as Globe and Mail

- for example) he never received any answer or opinion about submitted articles; they just ignored him! Even

when he tried to reach the newspapers by telephone, he used to be disconnected! 13) Leo is one of probably

10 most important Russian vanguard poets in the world. However, an attempt to publish his book (for his own

money!) of poetry was turned away by a Russian publishing house. In the same time the above mentioned

Rozhinsky, who's not even a poet, rather an amateur on a primitively and law scale, published a book of his

"poetry" without any problem! 14) By suppressing and persecuting such a gifted, talented in many areas person

as Leo Gunin Canada lost an opportunity to use his talents, skills and abilities! Because Leo is a famous,

well-known personality, people will consider about Canada after attitude to him. Inhuman, cruel, humiliative

approach towards Leo and his family will speak by itself.

B. Financial disaster:

Because almost 6 years Gunins were refused the status in Canada, they had to pay more in taxes, pay for

various immigration programs, for employment and student authorization, for immigration lawyers, and so on.

They also were not receiving children allowances and other benefits, which landed immigrants and citizens are

receiving. Because Leo was in reality restricted from his profession (music), journalism and all areas, which

require professional skills, he could work for minimum wage only. The lack of status in Canada is also one of

the main factors in Gunins better employment attempts failure. The family's financial situation is devastating and

tragic!

C. Health declining:

A number of descriptions of their health problems in result of persecutions can be found from the page

http://www.total.net/~leog/Rights/LevGunin/appealX.htm Besides, both Leo and Alla have a kind of depression,

caused by the status in Canada denial and other persecutions. D. Children suffering: The children (13 and 14

years old) suffer from the same reasons as the adults. They afraid of their unstable situation, afraid of bringing in

the post because there could be a punishing message from Immigration. They are very suppressed or even

depressed. They feel like they are not like other children but excluded from the normal society. They also

complex and feel uneasy about their poverty. They feel deprived and discriminated because other children can

visit a cafe or McDonald, or a cinema, or their parents have cars, and so on. Because the children understand

that their poverty is much related to persecutions they feel unprotected and threatened. Several times

Immigration threatened the children that they will be expelled from school. Marta is a talented ballerina. She

participated in movies, in dozens of ballet and theatre performances, she also writes poetry and prose, and

she's a painter. She's also a gifted viola player. However, she has no rights to study, and her parents must pay

for any official ballet studies several times more then if they were landed immigrants or citizens, what is

impossible. No sponsor will give money for a child without the status. On television and in movies, where Marta

participated, she was always on the back - probably because of the same reason. Ina is a gifted piano player,

each year she's passing exams at university with the best remarks. She's also composes and arranges music,

she's a good music theoretician, a choral singer, plays also flute, writes poetry and prose. Ina has participated in

dozens of cultural events and performances as a member of one of the best tremble chorales in the world, as a

piano player, was on television and took one of the awards as a piano player on young piano players' festival. In

the same time she has no piano (!) - because Immigration is sacking all financial resources away from the

family! And because her parents are persecuted and deprived.

That text was prepared by Lushin Valery Stepanovich

From Lev GUNIN

Lev GUNIN

3455 rue Aylmer, app. 201

Montreal, QUEBEC

H2X 2B5

Tel. (514) 499-1294 [leog@total.net] more details: http://www.interlog.com/~syedma/dstand/leo201127.html

Dear Sir, Lady!

We need an urgent help regarding incredible violations of our human rights. Please, inform us - if you can, - 1) what we can do, 2)

where to turn, 3) what tools we could use to fight this outrage injustice. Please, help! The most dangerous and alarming is the

manipulation of the medical data and medical personnel by Immigration. You'll find a short description of our tremendously huge

(long) story here below.

I am a human-rights activist, journalist and historian with numerous publications. My views and humanitarian activities made me a

target for persecutions in ex-USSR and - later (after deportation) - in another country, where I was taken together with my family

against our will. Our refugee claim was refused under exceptional circumstances and with a totally partial attitude. Decisions in our

case were unfair, inhuman and unjust. While hearing and proceeding our refugee claim Immigration officials have used illegal

methods, abuse of justice and human rights. On top of undeniable persecutions, an obvious fact that we had no place where to go

and tons of our documentary proof justice was denied to us in many outraged ways. We have appealed the decision, but the IRB's

(Immigration's) defender has emphasized security and other unconventional questions, and the Federal court closed our case.

During our refugee hearings the IRB's judge, Mr. Boiron said that we could face the same persecutions, which we had before, in

Canada as well. It was a threat.

Now we are more then 6 years in a limbo, administrative mayhem and ultra-vulnerable state. That is damaging our mental and

physical health, social and professional status, and chances to regain our professional domain and return to normal life. However, in

spite of human rights deniers in IRB and other departments, pro-Israeli lobby (with their people in Immigration), which goal is to keep

refugee claimants from Israel out of Canada, we received a positive decision. We highly appreciate that in spite of everything we

were granted the landed immigrant status in response to our humanitarian appeal 1 (one) year ago.

In the same time some opponents of this decision did not ceased their pressure. They did not want to allow us to receive the landed

immigrant's papers. In attempts to put us down they started to destroy me, my family, ours lives before we could receive the status in

Canada. Each routine immigration procedure - extension of the employment or student authorization, etc. - turned into a mockery

and humiliation. We must fight for every small thing, which has to be proceeded automatically! Especially after we were given the

Certificat de selectione du Quebec: more then eight (8) months ago. Unnecessary expensive medical exams (Immigration has

pretended that lost our medical data) and other innumerous humiliations made our life unbearable. They combined my mother's

and mine cases in Immigration's computer, when in reality my mother's case has nothing to do with our case. (She's a sponsored

spouse of a Canadian citizen - since November 1998, - and we were accepted by the humanitarian appeal). Immigration officer

Madam Helene ROY illegally intervened in the medical issues to torpid my mother's case, and on her request Mrs. W. BRZEZINSKA

(M.D.) made a false report before my mother's medical evaluation for Immigration took place. Madame ROY refused to recognize

my mother's marriage "because of the medical concerns" the next day suddenly replacing this negative decision by another one.

When I called Immigration about my case, I was told three times that our case is frozen because of my mother's situation.

Immigration was concerned about a possibility of eventual diseases, which my mother could develop. Theoretically every person,

even the most healthy, could develop any terminal disease - and will develop: because everybody dies. Immigration's demands on

ground of a "potential danger of developing a terminal disease" are ridiculous and became a ground of discrimination, partiality and

abuse. A number of facts revealed that one of their goals was to put my mother under a stress damaging her health as much as

possible.

They contacted the medical lab where my mother did a x-ray before she went there. Later confusion about that x-ray took place. In

January 2000 Immigration's medical committee ordered my mother to do additional tests: strum creatinine (blood test) and

echocardiogram. The "strum creatinine" test (testing the kidney function) was already done before and was in norm. Cardio function

was already tested - there were no concerns. There were no reasons for additional tests. The strum creatinine test was normal

again. The echocardiogram only reflected nothing but some anatomical abnormalities, known before. The doctor who did the test

told me that the abnormalities have anatomical, not pathological, nature. However, instead of proceeding my mother's documents

Immigration submitted her (June 28, 2000) another illogical demand: to send them a "resume" of her "last visit to cardiologist". She