Earlier Tuesday, the Federal Court granted the six-months-pregnant Camara an 11th-hour reprieve from deportation minutes before she was to board a 2 p.m. flight to Munich, the first leg of a 28-hour trip to the Guinea capital of Conakry.
Camara, 42, has type 2 diabetes and is being followed at a high-risk pregnancy clinic at Montreal’s Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital. Judge Luc Martineau ruled she and her unborn child could suffer irreparable harm if deported. The decision ended a tense, three-hour standoff between immigration authorities and Sow, who drove his wife to the airport at 11 a.m. in compliance with a deportation order issued Friday.
But Camara waited in a car in the airport’s parking lot as Sow told officials he would not put her on the plane unless the government took responsibility for her safety and that of their child, expected Aug. 15. "I need a guarantee from the minister," he said after meeting customs and immigration officials. "Once my wife arrives in Guinea, they will be responsible."
Two immigration agents, one wheeling a suitcase, paced the departures lounge — waiting to escort Camara to the West-African country. The Canada Border Services Agency detained Camara Friday in preparation for the deportation but released her the next day on a promise to report for the deportation.
The Immigration and Refugee Board turned down her application for refugee status in 2007. She claimed she was forced into marriage with a man who already had two other wives, sexually assaulted her and burned her breast with a hot iron.
Source: Ottawa Citizen
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