"Richard Falk, an international law expert from the United States, told Al Jazeera that he was questioned at Toronto Pearson international airport on Thursday alongside his wife, fellow legal scholar Hilal Elver. list of 3 itemsend of list 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, 95, said on Saturday in an interview from Ottawa, the Canadian capital. It was my first experience of this sort ever in my life."
"The tribunal brought together international human rights and legal experts on Friday and Saturday to examine the Canadian government's role in Israel's two-year bombardment of the Gaza Strip, which a UN inquiry and numerous rights groups have described as a genocide. Falk said he and his wife were held for questioning for more than four hours and asked about their work on Israel and Gaza, and on issues of genocide in general."
Richard Falk, a former United Nations special rapporteur and international law expert, and his wife Hilal Elver were detained and questioned by Canadian authorities at Toronto Pearson airport while traveling to Ottawa for a Palestine Tribunal event. Both are US citizens and were held for more than four hours, asked about their work on Israel, Gaza, and issues of genocide. Falk described the questioning as disorganized and not aggressive, calling it his first such experience. He characterized the interrogation as part of a global push to punish truth-tellers and to clamp down on dissident voices. The CBSA was asked about the incident.
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