{"id":1877,"date":"2019-03-26T03:08:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T07:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:19:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:19:53","slug":"canada-has-granted-asylum-to-one-of-the-refugee-families-who-hid-snowden-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2019\/03\/26\/canada-has-granted-asylum-to-one-of-the-refugee-families-who-hid-snowden-in-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada has granted asylum to one of the refugee families who hid Snowden in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>But others who helped Snowden still waiting for a decision from Canada on refugee status, with one ‘unraveling’ mentally and hospitalized<\/p>\n

Source: Canada grants refugee status to some asylum-seekers who hid Edward Snowden in Hong Kong | National Post<\/a><\/p>\n

HONG KONG \u2014 Vanessa Rodel was so afraid to believe the news, she asked her lawyer to repeat it, five times.<\/p>\n

But each time, the message she had longed to hear was exactly the same, and each time it was every bit as momentous: Rodel, a Filipino national, and her seven-year-old daughter Keana would finally be leaving Hong Kong for a new life thousands of kilometres away in Canada, ending a decade of suspended animation here…<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

The others who helped Snowden \u2014 a Sri Lankan couple with two young children and another single Sri Lankan man \u2014 are still awaiting word on whether Canada will accept them as refugees. And the long years as second-class citizens in Hong Kong \u2014 with the ever-present threat of being returned to the countries they fled in fear \u2014 seem to be having a dire impact.<\/p>\n

Supun Kellapatha, father of the two children, was hospitalized Friday due to increasingly fragile mental health; only his last-ditch court challenge now stands in the way of his being forced back to Sri Lanka.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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But others who helped Snowden still waiting for a decision from Canada on refugee status, with one ‘unraveling’ mentally and hospitalized Source: Canada grants refugee status to some asylum-seekers who hid Edward Snowden in Hong Kong | National Post HONG … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[296,326],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-refugees","tag-snowden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":970,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/07\/05\/massacre-victims-widow-flees-philippines\/","url_meta":{"origin":1877,"position":0},"title":"Massacre victim\u2019s widow flees Philippines","author":"aslam","date":"July 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"See on Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties The widow of a journalist who was among the 57 people killed in the grisly 2009 Maguindanao massacre has fled to Hong Kong, saying the Philippine government had failed to provide her protection.See on globalnation.inquirer.net","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1442,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/09\/15\/social-media-uprising-in-the-chinese-speaking\/","url_meta":{"origin":1877,"position":1},"title":"Social Media Uprising in the Chinese-speaking World [Kindle Edition] | Interlocals","author":"aslam","date":"September 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesThis book is an elaborated study of the use of social media in grassroots struggles in China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Malaysia by local researchers and activists.Show original","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1555,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/07\/17\/a-grotesque-symbol-of-starving-africa\/","url_meta":{"origin":1877,"position":2},"title":"A grotesque symbol of starving Africa","author":"aslam","date":"July 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesIncreasing numbers of children are dropping dead on the long trek to refugee camps. 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