"A security person came and said, 'We've detained you both because we're concerned that you pose a national security threat to Canada,' Falk told Al Jazeera on Sunday, from Ottawa."
"It was my first experience of this sort - ever - in my life."
"The questioning was 'random and disorganized,' Falk said, but still an element of a global campaign to 'punish those who endeavour to tell the truth about what is happening' in Gaza."
Richard Falk and Hilal Elver, former UN special rapporteurs, were detained by Canadian border authorities upon arriving at a Toronto airport while traveling to an event examining Canada's role in the Gaza genocide. Falk, who turned 95 that day, said officials told them they posed a "national security threat" and confiscated their passports before bringing them to an interview room. Border agents held them for over four hours, questioned them about their work on Israel and Gaza, and interrogated them about the genocide. Authorities eventually released them after the questioning.
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