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From Lev GUNIN
LETTER TO THE MONTREAL CHEST INSTITUTE - A Copy
Письмо в Монреальский Институт Грудной Клетки
(Письмо было отправлено 09-го ноября в ответ на анонимное письмо из Монреальского Института Грудной Клетки
(МИГК), полученное 06 ноября 2000 года; ниже приведена модифицированная версия от 12-14, ноября, отправленная
15-го ноября)
Lev GUNIN
Адрес, телефон
From Lev GUNIN to anonymous person, author of the letter (the copy of the letter is enclosed).
Montreal Chest Institute (MCI)
3666 St-Urbain
Montreal, QUEBEC H2X 2P4
Сэр или Леди! Пожалуйста, переправьте это письмо в соответствующий отдел Иммиграции, который Вы упомянули на
странице 1 вашего письма.
Прежде всего любые предложения, чтобы я могу быть инфицирован tuberculosis, просто нелепы. У меня были некоторые
другие предположения, но позже медицинский специалист, с которым я говорил, а также мои юрисконсульты, сказали
мне, что единственное объяснение тому, что произошло - это что Иммиграция просто сделала ложное сообщение о
снимке. Кроме того, в принципе по одному рентгеновскому снимку невозможно определить, является ли то или иное
затемнение tuberculosis, или это просто пневмония, бронхит, или комбинация (см. медицинские книги). Выводы,
основанные на только одном снимке, пристрастны и имеют целью нанести ущерб. В современных условиях, когда
имеются так много вирусов типа гриппа, сопровождаемых pneumonic side effects, такие выводы абсурдны. Очевидно, что
Ваше решение приписать меня к Больнице Инфекционных Болезней (IDU) прежде, чем у Вас имеется 100 процентное
доказательство какой-либо tuberculosis инфекции и начать соответствующую юридическую процедуру, было
должностным преступлением. Единственный допустимый способ разрешения этой ситуации был (до отправки меня в
IDU)
1) запросить альтернативное мнение о существующем снимке
2) послать мне письмо для моего врача для прохождения повторного рентгена.
14 ноября я по своей инициативе прошел другой рентген. Он показал, что нет НИ ОДНОГО затемнения, никаких
абсолютно явлений вне нормы и (как мне сказали мои медицинские консультанты) не могло быть на 2 недели раньше,
особенно tuberculosis-подобные тени. Был ли снимок моего рентгена (отрицательный) заменен другим или отдел IMS
(Медицинские Услуги Иммиграции) только фальсифицировал чтение моего снимка, - я не знаю. Это все - материал для
уголовного дела.
Потому, что я был в подавленном состоянии, я не обратил внимание на то, что (MCI) принадлежит Больнице Королевы
Виктории, учреждению, с которым у меня было несколько формальных конфликтов. Кто - то от имени администрации
больницы имел обыкновение посылать мне агрессивное по многочисленности множество писем-требований о
пожертвовании на больницу даже после того, как я в письменной форме заявил о том, что в то время жил на
социальное пособие. Администрация больницы также сделала попытку вымогать у меня деньги за услуги, которые были
покрыты Medicare. В той же больнице мне заявили несколько раз, что люди, такие, как я, "нелегально в Канаде, и не
должны получать медицинскую помощь "за счет канадцев". Имела место и небрежность (халатность) в отделении
скорой помощи, куда я обращался с травмами, и мелкое (медицинское) должностное преступление по моему
требованию по CSST. Секретарь доктора Evenson (Больница Королевы Виктории) полгода играла в игры со мной,
фактически блокируя мне доступ на прием к врачу с мая по ноябрь 2000 года. Ряд мелких юридических и медицинских
нарушений имел место в той же больнице. И во всех этих мелких инцидентах иммиграционные вопросы или даже сама
Иммиграция были вовлечены. Один из специалистов по иммиграции советовал мне не обращаться больше туда, потому
что эта больница находится под "чрезвычайным влиянием Иммиграции".
Вложение-страница с просьбой о пожертвовании на Больницу Королевы Виктории, которое я обнаружил в Вашем
письме, было очередным нарушением-злоупотреблением с Вашей стороны.
В конечном счете возможно, что доктор Giannakis послал меня для прохождения рентгена не в "Ла Сите", как мою маму
и жену, - или другое медицинское учреждение, но в MCI потому, что получил приказ (не просьбу, но приказ), которому не
мог бы не повиноваться (как представитель Иммиграции).
Этим письмом я объявляю, что я рассматриваю ваш способ разрешения возникшей ситуации нелегальным и
нарушением моих конституционных прав из-за вышеупомянутого, также как и по следующим причинам:
1) Эти и другие анонимные письма буду впредь игнорировать.
2) Процедурные требования были нарушены потому, что Иммиграция должна была прислать письмо мне (моему врачу),
но в больницу.
3) Нарушив их, Иммиграция лишила меня моего конституционного права выбрать учреждение, где пройти - если
потребуется - дополнительную проверку.
4) Вы не имели никакого права рассматривать меня как инфецированного вирусоносителя до того, как будут
неопровержимые доказательства этого.
5) Потому что больница от имени Иммиграции приказала, чтобы я подписал constat и явился в Инфекционное
Отделение, со мной незаконно обращаются как с носителем TB. Они не имели на то никакого юридического права до
тех пор, пока не представлены бесспорные медицинские доказательства.
6) Медицинская этика не должна была позволить никому обращаться со мной таким обюразом на основании только
заявления Иммиграции.
7) Единственный снимок не может определять, является ли затемнение (если оно есть) туберкулезным, или просто
пневмонией, бронхитом, или комбинацией (см. медицинские книги). Любые выводы, основанные на только одном
рентгене, смешны, пристрастны и незаконны.
8) 14 ноября я сделал другой рентген. Он показал, что нет никаких затемнений, никакие отклонений от нормы и (как мои
медицинские советники сказали) не могло быть 2 недели назад, особенно туберкулезноподобных.
9) Посылая меня в Инфекционное Отделение, меня могли подвергнуть контактам с реальными инфицированными.
10) Для выяснения ситуации мне просто должен был быть назначен другой рентген.
11) Я указал ряд причин, почему я не мог бы быть инфицирован TB и предложил, что a), инсинуации Иммиграции не
соответствовали снимку c) имелся дефект пленки, и т.д.
Yours truly,
Lev GUNIN
November 2000 Montreal
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
http://www.interlog.com/~syedma/dstand/leo201127.html
http://www.interlog.com/~syedma/dstand/leo_updte02.html
http://www.amin.org/update/censor.htm
http://www.singer.ca/forum/imm/messages/821.html
http://www.kuero4/justice/gun.html
www.total.net/~leog/Righs/LevGunin/inde xX.htm
UPDATE IN FAMILY GUNIN SITUATION
UPDATE IN FAMILY GUNIN PERSECUTIONS
1. End of 1999-beginning of 2000
2. Manipulation of medical data in political goals - end of 2000
C O N T E N T
(Lev Gunin is one of the most persecuted people in the world. His family - loving and devoted wife (a true hero), two wonderful
daughters (talented in art and music), and his old mother - became targets of outraged humiliations and abuses).
1. Granting GUNINS the landed immigrants (permanent residency) status, Immigration's officials in spite of that continued
persecutions. The proceeding of the landed immigrant status for Gunins is now frozen.
2. The devastating and tragic impact of Immigration's persecutions on family's social, financial, health, and legal situation.
3. The complete history of GUNINS tragedy: http://www.total.net/~leog/Rights/LevGUNIN/appealX.htm
Short description of previous events:
A poet, writer and musical composer, Leo (Lev) GUNIN became a victim of communist authorities' persecutions
in his native Belarus. Even after he was considered as relatively famous and important for 3 cultures (Yiddish,
Polish, and Russian), persecutions never stopped. Because of them he started to be involved in human rights'
activity and became one of the most active dissidents in his native republic. Persecutions destroyed his family,
and his, life, and devastated his professional career. In 1991 the communist authorities forced GUNINS to
accept Israeli visas, abandoned their citizenship - and deported them to Warsaw. There GUNINS were
kidnapped by Israelis (which ruined their plans to move from Warsaw to Germany) - and taken to Israel by force.
Persecutions in Israel were as severe as in ex-USSR. Israeli authorities were refusing them a visa for exit during
3 and a half years. Only with indirect Amnesty International help GUNINS could get free - and left Israel in 1994
for Canada. Almost 6 years after their arrival they are still brutally persecuted by Immigration Canada on request
of Israel and also because of all governments' solidarity...
NEW OUTRAGED INJUSTICE
1. During several months after they were granted the landed immigrants status GUNINS were fighting for
extending their Israeli passports, which Federal Immigration requested (or, - in GUNINS' case - it could be an
alternative documents of citizenship cancellation). Instead of the requested documents they received another
document: a surrogate receipt that their expired passports were confiscated by the consulate and will never
been extended. In giving them such a paper the Israeli consulate demonstrated an unusual human approach
in spite of initiating persecutions in past. Formally such a document is normally accepted by Canadian
Immigration as a routine ground for proceeding landed immigrants papers. However, it is not known yet if it will
be accepted in GUNINS case... In spite of the human approach of Quebec's Immigration (Gunins were already
given Quebec's Certificat de selection du Quebec) Federal Immigration didn't stop humiliations yet. On April 19
Leo GUNIN called Federal Immigration because the money GUNINS ordered for the landed immigrants' status
were never removed. He was told that the procedure of the landed immigrants status for GUNINS was frozen
and in doubt because of Leo GUNIN's mother situation. It was clear now that Leo's suggestions that
Immigration's brutal humiliations over his old mother (see the page about a camouflaged attempt to kill his
mother and other outraged developments on Internet:
http://www.interlog.com/~syedma/dstand/leo_updte01.html ) were generated as a punishment for him! In reality
his mother's immigration file (she's a spouse of a Canadian citizen and she was also granted a landed
immigrant status and was already given the Certificat de selection du Quebec) has nothing to do with Leo and
his family's file: because they were granted the status in humanitarian appeal. The pretended dependence
between Elisabeth Epstein's (her maiden name) and Leo Gunin's files could sound as an April's joke if a joke
could be compatible with well-known black image of Canadian Immigration. In reality the immigration officer was
given the number of only Leo's file, and if through his file he could accent his mother's situation it means that
the two files were really combined together. If so, this is a violation of all procedural, juridical, immigration and
human rights laws and regulation. In Gunins case Immigration already violated all the most basic Canadian and
international rules. Their whole immigration history sounds as an Israeli and Canadian (Federal Immigration's)
vendetta. But even on top of all these violations and persecutions the sabotage of their landed immigrants status
even after granting it looks sinister and even more outraged. To know for what views and opinions Lev GUNIN
is suffering, go to http://www.total.net/~leog/ - and there choose Human Rights.
2. The devastating and tragic impact of Immigration's persecutions on family's social,
financial, health, and legal situation.
Content in brief:
A. Artificial employment prevention. Social and professional tragedy
B. Financial disaster
C. Health declining
D. Children's suffering
A. There are both objective and subjective reasons why both Leo Gunin and his wife are employed in
minimum wages works with no perspective and no chances to recover from incredible poverty.
Objective reasons are: 1) They have no status in Canada and because of that can not be employed as
professionals 2) Immigration's Canada persecutions require attention, time and excessive attempts to fix the
situation 3) By new and new persecutions Immigration Canada force Leo and Alla to spend the whole time on
paperwork, completing innumerous forms, writing answers, and so on; that is just one of thousands of obstacles
for better employment 4) Gunins are depressed by their immigration situation, they just can not think about
anything else 5) They are not eligible to attend any professional or language course until they have no status in
Canada 6) They are not eligible for any government and other employment assistance 7) Because of the
tremendous financial devastation they have no tools for a sophisticated job search 8) Leo's and Alla's real
employment history (curriculum vitae) in Israel and Canada reflects persecutions and rises potential employers'
questions, which can not be answered - because no employer will hire a persecuted person 9) Their health is
constantly declining; and so on... There are hundreds of other objective reasons.
Subjective reasons are: 1) Some suggestions could tell that Immigration intervenes in Leo's attempts to find a
better work, not recommending his potential employers to hire him 2) Without the status Leo can not get the
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
never has visited a cardiologist and had nothing to send them! She went to Mr. Giannakis M.D. who was her physician for
Immigration. He sent her to Dr. Gordon Creenstein, a known authority in cardiology, who examined her and told her the same:
augmentation has the anatomical nature, it is not pathology. He submitted his rapport on 27 July 2000. Any impartial observer can
see that both kidney and heart "chapters" in that story were closed now. However, it was not enough for Immigration. On September
2000 Immigration's medical department made another ruling. They ordered my mom to have another urine test and then visit an
urologist. She did the test immediately - and the visit to urologist was scheduled for November. Even this did not satisfied
Immigration! On September 19 my mother received a letter from another Immigration officer, which demanded from her a statement
how she obeyed the last Immigration's order, and accused her of postponing and sabotaging the procedure. It was signed by L.
Cawchesne. Meanwhile Dr. Giannakis called Immigration and told that there was no reason for demanding a visit to an urologist:
because there was nothing abnormal in her urine test. They had no choice but to agree with him. He cancelled the appointment to
urologist because Immigration's medical division has finished working with her file - and informed the immigration officer that they
have no medical concerns about her any more. However, Immigration still did not make any decision, refusing to close my mother's
file and submit her the papers. Now they have no reasons at all, no excuses or explanations. One of my mother's immigration
counselors was refused a clear answer, another was refused a conversation. From my sources I know that her file is given to Rene
Jacque. There is no decision, no ruling. And my mother is in the limbo again. And I am told that my case is frozen because of my
mother's situation...
Another Immigration's excuse of tormenting us was the question of my wife's, and my police clearings. Because I am trying to keep
that letter in a reasonable length I'll skip the details, which I could provide later. I never got a clear answer if the police certificates for
us were received at Immigration - and attached to our file.
Immigration's officials stopped to sign their official letters to us or give their names. There is no proper Immigration's logo, any special
paper, anything to tell that this is not a fraud or joke... When Immigration calls us there is a "private call" indication! When I ask an
anonymous person to identify him/her, or tell me who is responsible for my file, I am always refused! If sometimes they sign their
letters, they sign them by names like Jeanne D'Arc, Honore de Balzak... They refuse to mention their position or rank. There is no
"immigration officer" indication or anything else. Just Jeanne D'Arc!
On October 26 by letter Immigration ordered my daughter Marta and me to undergo the medical examinations. Six (6!) months ago I
demanded in writing to allow me and my family members pass the medical examinations by initiating an appropriate decision with a
proper letter and forms (Med1A.doc) submission - and was denied it. By then Immigration argued that only my wife must undergo
medical examinations, and submitted a medical form (February 2000) for my wife only, omitting my daughters and me. Now again:
they did not send us the form for my older daughter's medical exams. This is obviously another tool for sabotaging our case in the
future. Knowing what my mother experienced with her "medical clearings" we could suggest that for us it would not be easy, too. By
then my wife's medical exams will expire, and she'll have to do them again! Then Immigration could tell that now my older daughter,
Ina, must undergo the medical exams. Theoretically, they can sabotage our case for eternity refusing us the landed immigrants'
papers forever; in the same time making our life vulnerable, unbearable and miserable.
My daughter and me - we went through the medical examination on October 31 2000. Doctor Giannakis told us that he found
nothing to be concerned about. Next day after 5 p.m. I received an anonymous call - as I was told - from Immigration. A man told me
that I might be punished for misconduct for not doing ordered by Immigration x-ray test and refusing the medical treatment. On
November the 1-st, I did a x-ray test at the Montreal Chest Institute. I was told that everything is in norm and there is nothing to worry
about. On November 2-nd 2000 - I received an anonymous ("private call" indication) telephone call from the Israeli consulate that our
police clearings came. Why then Immigration told us that they were received on October 17.
On November 6 2000, an anonymous (no names, telephones, signatures) letter from Montreal Chest Institute arrived. Addressing to
me the letter said that my chest x-ray shows signs of a tuberculosis infection. "The Canadian Department of Immigration - the letter
also said - has notified the Infectious Disease Unit..." - etc. It demanded to be prepared paying up to five hundreds dollars - and sign
special legal document: a constat for infected by infectious disease non-residents of Canada. On November 9/then 15 I have
submitted a letter in protest to the Montreal Chest Institute.
The main points of my letter were:
1) I will disregard this and other anonymous letters. 2) The procedural requirements were violated - because Immigration should
submit it to me (my physician) but not to the hospital. 3) Violating them Immigration deprived me of my constitutional right to choose
an institution where to do additional tests if required. 4) Because the hospital on behalf of Immigration ordered me to sign a constat
and appear in Infectious Disease Unit I was wrongly treated as a TB carrier. They had no legal rights to treat me as a contagious
carrier until an undeniable medical proof is established. 5) Medical ethics should not allow anybody to treat me that way before
making conclusions based not on Immigration's rapport. 6) A single x-ray could not determine whether or not any shadow (if any)
means tuberculosis, or simply any kind of pneumonia, bronchitis, or a combination (see medical books). Any conclusions based on
only one x-ray are ridiculous, partial, and prejudicial. 7) On November 14 I did another x-ray. It revealed that there were no any
suspicious shadow, no abnormalities - and (as my medical advisers told) could not be 2 weeks before, especially tuberculosis-like
shadows. 8) By sending me to the Infectious Disease Unit they might expose me to contacts with real infected carriers. 9) Merely
another x-ray should be initiated before doing anything else.
10) I gave a number of reasons why I could not be infected by TB and made a suggestion that a) my x-ray photo was replaced by
somebody else or b) Immigration's insinuations did not match the photo.
On November 17 CDL MED LAB submitted me a receipt by fax pretending that I must pay for a blood test for syphilis, which they
pretended I could do on October 31 2000 only at their site. However, I never did that test and even never was at CDL MED. On
November 20 I received an (anonymous) call from Immigration and was accused of conceiving the fact that I was infected by aids
when entered Canada! In response I have submitted a request by fax to the Reddy Memorial Hospital archive and telephoned there
many times to receive copies of my blood and x-ray tests but there is still no answer. On November 28, 2000 Immigration ruled that
there is a doubt that the x-ray from November 14 is mine. However, they received an original document from Clark LAB and had no
legal rights to doubt it! They also pretended that not me but another person did this x-ray instead of me. However, the x-ray was
covered by my medical card, which has my photo on it! Besides, Immigration is not a criminal court and has no power to make
criminal verdicts. They are in a pure rage! They demanded the original of the x-ray made in Clark LAB (meanwhile, it is possible that
Immigration informed MCI that the x-ray from November 1 was lost!). Further they insist that I must be referred to the chest specialist
anyway!
Rights of our children are severely violated. This is the seventh year they live in Canada without the status of residents. Their very
basic, essential rights, and everyday life are affected! If what my advisors told me is true, this situation also violates international
standards and Canadian laws: because children should not be deprived the landed immigrants status after 5 years and should not
be left completely without any citizenship/residency papers. (Our children have no passports or even travel documents of any state).
Ungrounded and illegal bureaucratic policy to keep us further in a limbo, in the frames of social, financial, professional, and legal
devastation and deprivation is inadmissible. The everyday fear of deportation has already destroyed us. Because of that and many
other situational, administrative, psychological, and etc. troubles and inconveniences, and intensive Immigration's pressure, we are
destroyed, our lives are already ruined! Please, HELP!!!
Demands in family GUNINS case:
1. We need a clear answer in writing if Immigration received our police clearings. And if not - a) why; b) what must be done now.
2. If the medical exams were affirmatively required for all family members - why Immigration did not initiated them for all family
members six months ago? We also need an assurance in writing that Ina will not be required to do medical examination.
3. We would like any other artificial delays in our case proceeding to be stopped. We also have right to know who is in charge of our
file!
4. If we will not be given the status of landed immigrants immediately, Immigration officials will completely destroy us.
5. A criminal investigation must be initiated on the manipulation of the medical data.
Demands in Elisabetha GUNIN (Epstein) case:
There is only one demand: she must be given her landed immigrant papers immediately and unconditionally.
Yours truly,
Lev GUNIN November 14 2000 Montreal
UPDATE IN FAMILY GUNIN SITUATION
UPDATE IN FAMILY GUNIN PERSECUTIONS
Manipulation of medical data for political persecutions is the end of the civilized society
- December 2000
C O N T E N T
1. Short descriptions of events - end of 1999 - beginning of 2000
2. Lev GUNIN - "The Source Of Our Problems"
2. List of documents
3. The whole immigration story
4. Other English publications on Internet about persecution of family GUNIN
To Human Rights Organizations
(AI, HRW, UNHRC, etc.)
December, 2000. Montreal, QUEBEC
- DOCUMENT NUMBER FOUR-A
From Lev GUNIN Full immigration story: http://www.total.net/~leog/Righs/LevGunin/indexX.htm
former refugee claimant
(address, tel. 514-49-1294, leog@total,net) December 6 2000
Dear Sir or Lady!
The most unpleasant thing is that in a country where there no concentration camps and common tortures nobody believes you.
Nobody believes that what happens to you - happens. That's why it's even harder to stand our troubles.
1. Let me mention briefly the source of our problems: I was a human-rights activist, former Soviet dissident (which led to deportation
from my native Belarus to Poland). From there my family and I were taken against our will to Israel. In Canada we filed a refugee
claim. Since 1994 we do not have normal life. We have problems.
Usage (against us) of contrived medical data to manipulate and prolong our vulnerable situation is one of them.
Theoretically falsification and manipulation of medical data can lead to a forcible treatment from diseases, which
we do not have (it could be lethal).
2. Now we are more then 6 years in a limbo, administrative mayhem and ultra-vulnerable state.
However, in spite of human rights deniers in IRB and other departments, pro-Israeli lobby (with their people in Immigration), personal
contribution of Immigration officer Mrs. Udith Malka in damaging our situation, we received a positive decision. (In response to our
humanitarian appeal 1+ (one+) year ago). Since then opponents to this decision made many attempts to reverse it and make our life
unbearable. We are still without any status, facing excessive hardship.
(a). Even at routine immigration procedures we are a target of mockery, stalling tactics and humiliation (see Document 8).
(b). Unnecessary personal expensive medical exams and blatant manipulation of medical data (Doc. 1-23), delays in issuing and
short terms of validity of employment and student authorizations, punitive and threatening anonymous calls and letters (Doc. 1-6,
specifically - 16). Excessive "totalitarian" secrecy and anonymity when Immigration is dealing with us (Doc. 10a, 13a, 1, 14, 15, etc.)
(c). After two (2) years we have no clear answer about our police certificate clearance in spite of confirmation from the Israeli
Consulate.
(d). More than half a year ago IMS officials refused us ruling and forms for medical examination for all family members assuring us
that only my wife must do them. Now in contradiction they ordered them for my younger daughter and me (omitting my older
daughter). When the last medical exams must finish, the validity of my wife's exams will expire (Doc. 2, 19, 20). Also my mother's file
From Lev GUNIN
LETTER TO THE MONTREAL CHEST INSTITUTE - A Copy
Письмо в Монреальский Институт Грудной Клетки
(Письмо было отправлено 09-го ноября в ответ на анонимное письмо из Монреальского Института Грудной Клетки
(МИГК), полученное 06 ноября 2000 года; ниже приведена модифицированная версия от 12-14, ноября, отправленная
15-го ноября)
Lev GUNIN
Адрес, телефон
From Lev GUNIN to anonymous person, author of the letter (the copy of the letter is enclosed).
Montreal Chest Institute (MCI)
3666 St-Urbain
Montreal, QUEBEC H2X 2P4
Сэр или Леди! Пожалуйста, переправьте это письмо в соответствующий отдел Иммиграции, который Вы упомянули на
странице 1 вашего письма.
Прежде всего любые предложения, чтобы я могу быть инфицирован tuberculosis, просто нелепы. У меня были некоторые
другие предположения, но позже медицинский специалист, с которым я говорил, а также мои юрисконсульты, сказали
мне, что единственное объяснение тому, что произошло - это что Иммиграция просто сделала ложное сообщение о
снимке. Кроме того, в принципе по одному рентгеновскому снимку невозможно определить, является ли то или иное
затемнение tuberculosis, или это просто пневмония, бронхит, или комбинация (см. медицинские книги). Выводы,
основанные на только одном снимке, пристрастны и имеют целью нанести ущерб. В современных условиях, когда
имеются так много вирусов типа гриппа, сопровождаемых pneumonic side effects, такие выводы абсурдны. Очевидно, что
Ваше решение приписать меня к Больнице Инфекционных Болезней (IDU) прежде, чем у Вас имеется 100 процентное
доказательство какой-либо tuberculosis инфекции и начать соответствующую юридическую процедуру, было
должностным преступлением. Единственный допустимый способ разрешения этой ситуации был (до отправки меня в
IDU)
1) запросить альтернативное мнение о существующем снимке
2) послать мне письмо для моего врача для прохождения повторного рентгена.
14 ноября я по своей инициативе прошел другой рентген. Он показал, что нет НИ ОДНОГО затемнения, никаких
абсолютно явлений вне нормы и (как мне сказали мои медицинские консультанты) не могло быть на 2 недели раньше,
особенно tuberculosis-подобные тени. Был ли снимок моего рентгена (отрицательный) заменен другим или отдел IMS
(Медицинские Услуги Иммиграции) только фальсифицировал чтение моего снимка, - я не знаю. Это все - материал для
уголовного дела.
Потому, что я был в подавленном состоянии, я не обратил внимание на то, что (MCI) принадлежит Больнице Королевы
Виктории, учреждению, с которым у меня было несколько формальных конфликтов. Кто - то от имени администрации
больницы имел обыкновение посылать мне агрессивное по многочисленности множество писем-требований о
пожертвовании на больницу даже после того, как я в письменной форме заявил о том, что в то время жил на
социальное пособие. Администрация больницы также сделала попытку вымогать у меня деньги за услуги, которые были
покрыты Medicare. В той же больнице мне заявили несколько раз, что люди, такие, как я, "нелегально в Канаде, и не
должны получать медицинскую помощь "за счет канадцев". Имела место и небрежность (халатность) в отделении
скорой помощи, куда я обращался с травмами, и мелкое (медицинское) должностное преступление по моему
требованию по CSST. Секретарь доктора Evenson (Больница Королевы Виктории) полгода играла в игры со мной,
фактически блокируя мне доступ на прием к врачу с мая по ноябрь 2000 года. Ряд мелких юридических и медицинских
нарушений имел место в той же больнице. И во всех этих мелких инцидентах иммиграционные вопросы или даже сама
Иммиграция были вовлечены. Один из специалистов по иммиграции советовал мне не обращаться больше туда, потому
что эта больница находится под "чрезвычайным влиянием Иммиграции".
Вложение-страница с просьбой о пожертвовании на Больницу Королевы Виктории, которое я обнаружил в Вашем
письме, было очередным нарушением-злоупотреблением с Вашей стороны.
В конечном счете возможно, что доктор Giannakis послал меня для прохождения рентгена не в "Ла Сите", как мою маму
и жену, - или другое медицинское учреждение, но в MCI потому, что получил приказ (не просьбу, но приказ), которому не
мог бы не повиноваться (как представитель Иммиграции).
Этим письмом я объявляю, что я рассматриваю ваш способ разрешения возникшей ситуации нелегальным и
нарушением моих конституционных прав из-за вышеупомянутого, также как и по следующим причинам:
1) Эти и другие анонимные письма буду впредь игнорировать.
2) Процедурные требования были нарушены потому, что Иммиграция должна была прислать письмо мне (моему врачу),
но в больницу.
3) Нарушив их, Иммиграция лишила меня моего конституционного права выбрать учреждение, где пройти - если
потребуется - дополнительную проверку.
4) Вы не имели никакого права рассматривать меня как инфецированного вирусоносителя до того, как будут
неопровержимые доказательства этого.
5) Потому что больница от имени Иммиграции приказала, чтобы я подписал constat и явился в Инфекционное
Отделение, со мной незаконно обращаются как с носителем TB. Они не имели на то никакого юридического права до
тех пор, пока не представлены бесспорные медицинские доказательства.
6) Медицинская этика не должна была позволить никому обращаться со мной таким обюразом на основании только
заявления Иммиграции.
7) Единственный снимок не может определять, является ли затемнение (если оно есть) туберкулезным, или просто
пневмонией, бронхитом, или комбинацией (см. медицинские книги). Любые выводы, основанные на только одном
рентгене, смешны, пристрастны и незаконны.
8) 14 ноября я сделал другой рентген. Он показал, что нет никаких затемнений, никакие отклонений от нормы и (как мои
медицинские советники сказали) не могло быть 2 недели назад, особенно туберкулезноподобных.
9) Посылая меня в Инфекционное Отделение, меня могли подвергнуть контактам с реальными инфицированными.
10) Для выяснения ситуации мне просто должен был быть назначен другой рентген.
11) Я указал ряд причин, почему я не мог бы быть инфицирован TB и предложил, что a), инсинуации Иммиграции не
соответствовали снимку c) имелся дефект пленки, и т.д.
Yours truly,
Lev GUNIN
November 2000 Montreal
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
http://www.interlog.com/~syedma/dstand/leo201127.html
http://www.interlog.com/~syedma/dstand/leo_updte02.html
http://www.amin.org/update/censor.htm
http://www.singer.ca/forum/imm/messages/821.html
http://www.kuero4/justice/gun.html
www.total.net/~leog/Righs/LevGunin/inde xX.htm
UPDATE IN FAMILY GUNIN SITUATION
UPDATE IN FAMILY GUNIN PERSECUTIONS
1. End of 1999-beginning of 2000
2. Manipulation of medical data in political goals - end of 2000
C O N T E N T
(Lev Gunin is one of the most persecuted people in the world. His family - loving and devoted wife (a true hero), two wonderful
daughters (talented in art and music), and his old mother - became targets of outraged humiliations and abuses).
1. Granting GUNINS the landed immigrants (permanent residency) status, Immigration's officials in spite of that continued
persecutions. The proceeding of the landed immigrant status for Gunins is now frozen.
2. The devastating and tragic impact of Immigration's persecutions on family's social, financial, health, and legal situation.
3. The complete history of GUNINS tragedy: http://www.total.net/~leog/Rights/LevGUNIN/appealX.htm
Short description of previous events:
A poet, writer and musical composer, Leo (Lev) GUNIN became a victim of communist authorities' persecutions
in his native Belarus. Even after he was considered as relatively famous and important for 3 cultures (Yiddish,
Polish, and Russian), persecutions never stopped. Because of them he started to be involved in human rights'
activity and became one of the most active dissidents in his native republic. Persecutions destroyed his family,
and his, life, and devastated his professional career. In 1991 the communist authorities forced GUNINS to
accept Israeli visas, abandoned their citizenship - and deported them to Warsaw. There GUNINS were
kidnapped by Israelis (which ruined their plans to move from Warsaw to Germany) - and taken to Israel by force.
Persecutions in Israel were as severe as in ex-USSR. Israeli authorities were refusing them a visa for exit during
3 and a half years. Only with indirect Amnesty International help GUNINS could get free - and left Israel in 1994
for Canada. Almost 6 years after their arrival they are still brutally persecuted by Immigration Canada on request
of Israel and also because of all governments' solidarity...
NEW OUTRAGED INJUSTICE
1. During several months after they were granted the landed immigrants status GUNINS were fighting for
extending their Israeli passports, which Federal Immigration requested (or, - in GUNINS' case - it could be an
alternative documents of citizenship cancellation). Instead of the requested documents they received another
document: a surrogate receipt that their expired passports were confiscated by the consulate and will never
been extended. In giving them such a paper the Israeli consulate demonstrated an unusual human approach
in spite of initiating persecutions in past. Formally such a document is normally accepted by Canadian
Immigration as a routine ground for proceeding landed immigrants papers. However, it is not known yet if it will
be accepted in GUNINS case... In spite of the human approach of Quebec's Immigration (Gunins were already
given Quebec's Certificat de selection du Quebec) Federal Immigration didn't stop humiliations yet. On April 19
Leo GUNIN called Federal Immigration because the money GUNINS ordered for the landed immigrants' status
were never removed. He was told that the procedure of the landed immigrants status for GUNINS was frozen
and in doubt because of Leo GUNIN's mother situation. It was clear now that Leo's suggestions that
Immigration's brutal humiliations over his old mother (see the page about a camouflaged attempt to kill his
mother and other outraged developments on Internet:
http://www.interlog.com/~syedma/dstand/leo_updte01.html ) were generated as a punishment for him! In reality
his mother's immigration file (she's a spouse of a Canadian citizen and she was also granted a landed
immigrant status and was already given the Certificat de selection du Quebec) has nothing to do with Leo and
his family's file: because they were granted the status in humanitarian appeal. The pretended dependence
between Elisabeth Epstein's (her maiden name) and Leo Gunin's files could sound as an April's joke if a joke
could be compatible with well-known black image of Canadian Immigration. In reality the immigration officer was
given the number of only Leo's file, and if through his file he could accent his mother's situation it means that
the two files were really combined together. If so, this is a violation of all procedural, juridical, immigration and
human rights laws and regulation. In Gunins case Immigration already violated all the most basic Canadian and
international rules. Their whole immigration history sounds as an Israeli and Canadian (Federal Immigration's)
vendetta. But even on top of all these violations and persecutions the sabotage of their landed immigrants status
even after granting it looks sinister and even more outraged. To know for what views and opinions Lev GUNIN
is suffering, go to http://www.total.net/~leog/ - and there choose Human Rights.
2. The devastating and tragic impact of Immigration's persecutions on family's social,
financial, health, and legal situation.
Content in brief:
A. Artificial employment prevention. Social and professional tragedy
B. Financial disaster
C. Health declining
D. Children's suffering
A. There are both objective and subjective reasons why both Leo Gunin and his wife are employed in
minimum wages works with no perspective and no chances to recover from incredible poverty.
Objective reasons are: 1) They have no status in Canada and because of that can not be employed as
professionals 2) Immigration's Canada persecutions require attention, time and excessive attempts to fix the
situation 3) By new and new persecutions Immigration Canada force Leo and Alla to spend the whole time on
paperwork, completing innumerous forms, writing answers, and so on; that is just one of thousands of obstacles
for better employment 4) Gunins are depressed by their immigration situation, they just can not think about
anything else 5) They are not eligible to attend any professional or language course until they have no status in
Canada 6) They are not eligible for any government and other employment assistance 7) Because of the
tremendous financial devastation they have no tools for a sophisticated job search 8) Leo's and Alla's real
employment history (curriculum vitae) in Israel and Canada reflects persecutions and rises potential employers'
questions, which can not be answered - because no employer will hire a persecuted person 9) Their health is
constantly declining; and so on... There are hundreds of other objective reasons.
Subjective reasons are: 1) Some suggestions could tell that Immigration intervenes in Leo's attempts to find a
better work, not recommending his potential employers to hire him 2) Without the status Leo can not get the
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
never has visited a cardiologist and had nothing to send them! She went to Mr. Giannakis M.D. who was her physician for
Immigration. He sent her to Dr. Gordon Creenstein, a known authority in cardiology, who examined her and told her the same:
augmentation has the anatomical nature, it is not pathology. He submitted his rapport on 27 July 2000. Any impartial observer can
see that both kidney and heart "chapters" in that story were closed now. However, it was not enough for Immigration. On September
2000 Immigration's medical department made another ruling. They ordered my mom to have another urine test and then visit an
urologist. She did the test immediately - and the visit to urologist was scheduled for November. Even this did not satisfied
Immigration! On September 19 my mother received a letter from another Immigration officer, which demanded from her a statement
how she obeyed the last Immigration's order, and accused her of postponing and sabotaging the procedure. It was signed by L.
Cawchesne. Meanwhile Dr. Giannakis called Immigration and told that there was no reason for demanding a visit to an urologist:
because there was nothing abnormal in her urine test. They had no choice but to agree with him. He cancelled the appointment to
urologist because Immigration's medical division has finished working with her file - and informed the immigration officer that they
have no medical concerns about her any more. However, Immigration still did not make any decision, refusing to close my mother's
file and submit her the papers. Now they have no reasons at all, no excuses or explanations. One of my mother's immigration
counselors was refused a clear answer, another was refused a conversation. From my sources I know that her file is given to Rene
Jacque. There is no decision, no ruling. And my mother is in the limbo again. And I am told that my case is frozen because of my
mother's situation...
Another Immigration's excuse of tormenting us was the question of my wife's, and my police clearings. Because I am trying to keep
that letter in a reasonable length I'll skip the details, which I could provide later. I never got a clear answer if the police certificates for
us were received at Immigration - and attached to our file.
Immigration's officials stopped to sign their official letters to us or give their names. There is no proper Immigration's logo, any special
paper, anything to tell that this is not a fraud or joke... When Immigration calls us there is a "private call" indication! When I ask an
anonymous person to identify him/her, or tell me who is responsible for my file, I am always refused! If sometimes they sign their
letters, they sign them by names like Jeanne D'Arc, Honore de Balzak... They refuse to mention their position or rank. There is no
"immigration officer" indication or anything else. Just Jeanne D'Arc!
On October 26 by letter Immigration ordered my daughter Marta and me to undergo the medical examinations. Six (6!) months ago I
demanded in writing to allow me and my family members pass the medical examinations by initiating an appropriate decision with a
proper letter and forms (Med1A.doc) submission - and was denied it. By then Immigration argued that only my wife must undergo
medical examinations, and submitted a medical form (February 2000) for my wife only, omitting my daughters and me. Now again:
they did not send us the form for my older daughter's medical exams. This is obviously another tool for sabotaging our case in the
future. Knowing what my mother experienced with her "medical clearings" we could suggest that for us it would not be easy, too. By
then my wife's medical exams will expire, and she'll have to do them again! Then Immigration could tell that now my older daughter,
Ina, must undergo the medical exams. Theoretically, they can sabotage our case for eternity refusing us the landed immigrants'
papers forever; in the same time making our life vulnerable, unbearable and miserable.
My daughter and me - we went through the medical examination on October 31 2000. Doctor Giannakis told us that he found
nothing to be concerned about. Next day after 5 p.m. I received an anonymous call - as I was told - from Immigration. A man told me
that I might be punished for misconduct for not doing ordered by Immigration x-ray test and refusing the medical treatment. On
November the 1-st, I did a x-ray test at the Montreal Chest Institute. I was told that everything is in norm and there is nothing to worry
about. On November 2-nd 2000 - I received an anonymous ("private call" indication) telephone call from the Israeli consulate that our
police clearings came. Why then Immigration told us that they were received on October 17.
On November 6 2000, an anonymous (no names, telephones, signatures) letter from Montreal Chest Institute arrived. Addressing to
me the letter said that my chest x-ray shows signs of a tuberculosis infection. "The Canadian Department of Immigration - the letter
also said - has notified the Infectious Disease Unit..." - etc. It demanded to be prepared paying up to five hundreds dollars - and sign
special legal document: a constat for infected by infectious disease non-residents of Canada. On November 9/then 15 I have
submitted a letter in protest to the Montreal Chest Institute.
The main points of my letter were:
1) I will disregard this and other anonymous letters. 2) The procedural requirements were violated - because Immigration should
submit it to me (my physician) but not to the hospital. 3) Violating them Immigration deprived me of my constitutional right to choose
an institution where to do additional tests if required. 4) Because the hospital on behalf of Immigration ordered me to sign a constat
and appear in Infectious Disease Unit I was wrongly treated as a TB carrier. They had no legal rights to treat me as a contagious
carrier until an undeniable medical proof is established. 5) Medical ethics should not allow anybody to treat me that way before
making conclusions based not on Immigration's rapport. 6) A single x-ray could not determine whether or not any shadow (if any)
means tuberculosis, or simply any kind of pneumonia, bronchitis, or a combination (see medical books). Any conclusions based on
only one x-ray are ridiculous, partial, and prejudicial. 7) On November 14 I did another x-ray. It revealed that there were no any
suspicious shadow, no abnormalities - and (as my medical advisers told) could not be 2 weeks before, especially tuberculosis-like
shadows. 8) By sending me to the Infectious Disease Unit they might expose me to contacts with real infected carriers. 9) Merely
another x-ray should be initiated before doing anything else.
10) I gave a number of reasons why I could not be infected by TB and made a suggestion that a) my x-ray photo was replaced by
somebody else or b) Immigration's insinuations did not match the photo.
On November 17 CDL MED LAB submitted me a receipt by fax pretending that I must pay for a blood test for syphilis, which they
pretended I could do on October 31 2000 only at their site. However, I never did that test and even never was at CDL MED. On
November 20 I received an (anonymous) call from Immigration and was accused of conceiving the fact that I was infected by aids
when entered Canada! In response I have submitted a request by fax to the Reddy Memorial Hospital archive and telephoned there
many times to receive copies of my blood and x-ray tests but there is still no answer. On November 28, 2000 Immigration ruled that
there is a doubt that the x-ray from November 14 is mine. However, they received an original document from Clark LAB and had no
legal rights to doubt it! They also pretended that not me but another person did this x-ray instead of me. However, the x-ray was
covered by my medical card, which has my photo on it! Besides, Immigration is not a criminal court and has no power to make
criminal verdicts. They are in a pure rage! They demanded the original of the x-ray made in Clark LAB (meanwhile, it is possible that
Immigration informed MCI that the x-ray from November 1 was lost!). Further they insist that I must be referred to the chest specialist
anyway!
Rights of our children are severely violated. This is the seventh year they live in Canada without the status of residents. Their very
basic, essential rights, and everyday life are affected! If what my advisors told me is true, this situation also violates international
standards and Canadian laws: because children should not be deprived the landed immigrants status after 5 years and should not
be left completely without any citizenship/residency papers. (Our children have no passports or even travel documents of any state).
Ungrounded and illegal bureaucratic policy to keep us further in a limbo, in the frames of social, financial, professional, and legal
devastation and deprivation is inadmissible. The everyday fear of deportation has already destroyed us. Because of that and many
other situational, administrative, psychological, and etc. troubles and inconveniences, and intensive Immigration's pressure, we are
destroyed, our lives are already ruined! Please, HELP!!!
Demands in family GUNINS case:
1. We need a clear answer in writing if Immigration received our police clearings. And if not - a) why; b) what must be done now.
2. If the medical exams were affirmatively required for all family members - why Immigration did not initiated them for all family
members six months ago? We also need an assurance in writing that Ina will not be required to do medical examination.
3. We would like any other artificial delays in our case proceeding to be stopped. We also have right to know who is in charge of our
file!
4. If we will not be given the status of landed immigrants immediately, Immigration officials will completely destroy us.
5. A criminal investigation must be initiated on the manipulation of the medical data.
Demands in Elisabetha GUNIN (Epstein) case:
There is only one demand: she must be given her landed immigrant papers immediately and unconditionally.
Yours truly,
Lev GUNIN November 14 2000 Montreal
UPDATE IN FAMILY GUNIN SITUATION
UPDATE IN FAMILY GUNIN PERSECUTIONS
Manipulation of medical data for political persecutions is the end of the civilized society
- December 2000
C O N T E N T
1. Short descriptions of events - end of 1999 - beginning of 2000
2. Lev GUNIN - "The Source Of Our Problems"
2. List of documents
3. The whole immigration story
4. Other English publications on Internet about persecution of family GUNIN
To Human Rights Organizations
(AI, HRW, UNHRC, etc.)
December, 2000. Montreal, QUEBEC
- DOCUMENT NUMBER FOUR-A
From Lev GUNIN Full immigration story: http://www.total.net/~leog/Righs/LevGunin/indexX.htm
former refugee claimant
(address, tel. 514-49-1294, leog@total,net) December 6 2000
Dear Sir or Lady!
The most unpleasant thing is that in a country where there no concentration camps and common tortures nobody believes you.
Nobody believes that what happens to you - happens. That's why it's even harder to stand our troubles.
1. Let me mention briefly the source of our problems: I was a human-rights activist, former Soviet dissident (which led to deportation
from my native Belarus to Poland). From there my family and I were taken against our will to Israel. In Canada we filed a refugee
claim. Since 1994 we do not have normal life. We have problems.
Usage (against us) of contrived medical data to manipulate and prolong our vulnerable situation is one of them.
Theoretically falsification and manipulation of medical data can lead to a forcible treatment from diseases, which
we do not have (it could be lethal).
2. Now we are more then 6 years in a limbo, administrative mayhem and ultra-vulnerable state.
However, in spite of human rights deniers in IRB and other departments, pro-Israeli lobby (with their people in Immigration), personal
contribution of Immigration officer Mrs. Udith Malka in damaging our situation, we received a positive decision. (In response to our
humanitarian appeal 1+ (one+) year ago). Since then opponents to this decision made many attempts to reverse it and make our life
unbearable. We are still without any status, facing excessive hardship.
(a). Even at routine immigration procedures we are a target of mockery, stalling tactics and humiliation (see Document 8).
(b). Unnecessary personal expensive medical exams and blatant manipulation of medical data (Doc. 1-23), delays in issuing and
short terms of validity of employment and student authorizations, punitive and threatening anonymous calls and letters (Doc. 1-6,
specifically - 16). Excessive "totalitarian" secrecy and anonymity when Immigration is dealing with us (Doc. 10a, 13a, 1, 14, 15, etc.)
(c). After two (2) years we have no clear answer about our police certificate clearance in spite of confirmation from the Israeli
Consulate.
(d). More than half a year ago IMS officials refused us ruling and forms for medical examination for all family members assuring us
that only my wife must do them. Now in contradiction they ordered them for my younger daughter and me (omitting my older
daughter). When the last medical exams must finish, the validity of my wife's exams will expire (Doc. 2, 19, 20). Also my mother's file