Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada

The Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) is Canada's largest independent administrative tribunal, responsible for making well-reasoned decisions on immigration and refugee matters efficiently, fairly and in accordance with the law. It consists of three divisions: the Refugee Protection Division; the Immigration Division; and the Immigration Appeal Division. The Refugee Protection Division decides claims for refugee protection made by people already in Canada. Website: www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/

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Maroc : information sur la situation des personnes qui abjurent l'islam (font acte d'apostasie), y compris le traitement qui leur est réservé par la société et les autorités; information sur les répercussions d'une fatwa du Conseil supérieur des oulémas [ulémas] condamnant les apostats à mort, y compris la réaction du gouvernement (2016-avril 2018) 24 April 2018 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Morocco: The situation of people who abjure Islam (who apostatize), including their treatment by society and by the authorities; the repercussions of a fatwa of the High Council of Ulemas condemning apostates to death, including the reaction of the government (2016-April 2018) 24 April 2018 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Nigeria: Whether Muslim clerics, groups or governmental authorities issue death sentences for blasphemy; if so, who has the right to issue and enforce such sentences; whether such sentences would extend to family members; in particular, whether there are death sentences issued by individuals who are not part of Sharia courts within states that are not officially applying Sharia law 21 September 2010 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Iran: The competent authority/court with legal jurisdiction to sentence a convicted criminal to death; whether a death sentence can be handed down in absentia; if so, the procedure involved, including whether the family of the convicted individual in absentia would be notified that a death sentence had been handed down 20 April 2004 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Zambia: List of all those accused of participating in or arrested in connection with the 28 October 1997 coup d'état attempt, including escapees from detention, those still sought by the authorities, trials or releases; whether death sentences were carried out, and the position of the current government with respect to coup plotters or suspects 17 March 2003 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Lai Cheong Sing, Tsang Ming Na, Lai Chun Chun, Lai Ming Ming, Lai Chun Wai See also: Lai Cheong Sing and Others v. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, [2004] FC 179 (3 February 2004), and: Lai Cheong Sing and Others v. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, [2005] FCA 125 (11 April 2005). Application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed on 9 May 2005. 6 May 2002 \| Judicial Body: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Credibility assessment - Criminal justice - Death penalty - Exclusion clauses - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Grounds for persecution - Non-state agents of persecution - Persecution based on political opinion - Prosecution vs persecution - Right to justice - Serious non-political crime - Social group persecution \| Countries: Canada - China
Bangladesh: Update to BGD38020 of 31 October 2001: Impact of the October 2001 election of a Bangladesh Nationalist Movement (BNP) government on the prosecution of those former military officers who were indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced to death for their involvement in the 15 August 1975 assassination of former Awami League prime minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 27 February 2002 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Nigeria: Predominant sects, or branches, of Islam present in Nigeria; role of Imam and how an individual becomes one; whether Imam has any power, or role, in the issuing of death sentences under Sharia law and, if so, the manner in which a death sentence would be issued and carried out; whether a death sentence issued under Sharia law would be legal under Nigerian law 28 March 2001 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Guatemala: Testimony of a police office, trial and sentencing of four other police officers in the beating and death on 4 March 1990 of a street child named Nahaman Carmona 3 September 1999 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Kazakhstan: Update to Response to Information Request KKT27094.E of 17 June 1997 on whether article 50 of the penal code, which stipulates the death penalty for treason during peacetime, has been in force from 1 March 1997 or whether it has been abrogated 1 October 1997 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses

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