r, and advance piano player, into a person, persecuted by
     Soviet authorities. They tried to prevent him from entering collegial -
university studies; however, his persistence and a lucky miracle broke
     that  wishes  circle,  and  he  received  first  collegial,  and   then
university degrees in music. In spite of that, L. GUNIN could not build a
     successful  composer's  carrier  because of  persecutions. In  the same
time, he played a specific role in ex-USSR, Belarus, and other
     countries' cultural life.  He's  the author of novels, stories, poetry,
contemporary and electronic music, works in history, essays, musicology,
     music history, philosophy, etc. His articles were published in a number
of newspapers all over the world.

     In 1979-1986, Lev became  an object of wide humiliations. He was beaten
by somebody, who has links with militia (police) and KGB. The
     authorities stood  up in  defense of the attackers.  They persecuted L.
GUNIN even more for bringing the attacker to trial. In another incident
     he and his  brother - they were  hunted by two well-coordinated groups:
mobsters, and a gang of youngsters. "Hunters" were also leaded by
     militia (police). Later brothers GUNIN were interrogated by police /KGB
men. Lev's brother Vitaly became a victim of secret medical
     manipulations.

     L.  Gunin  has   multiple  links   with  the  cultural  elite,   famous
personalities  and  dissidents  in  Moscow,  St.  -  Peterburg  (Leningrad),
Vilnius,
     Warsaw,  and   Belarus.  He  also  has  connections  with  the  Western
journalists in Moscow, and with representatives of the governments of the
     Western countries.

     1980-s.  Because  of persecutions L.  GUNIN's decided to participate in
the dissident movement. There are the main directions of his
     dissident activities:
     1.  Participation in  Human Rights  movement  and links  with the  most
famous human rights activists.
     2. Membership in underground literacy circles.
     3. Defense of the Old City of Bobruisk from revelation and demolition.
     4. Journalism and editorial functions for underground magazines.
     5.  Cooperation with forbidden (or unwelcomed) in ex-USSR NTS (People's
Labor Union) and the National Front of Belarus.
     6. Participation in the Jewish national movement.
     7.   Creation   of    ideologically   independent   and   stylistically
controversial  music, prose, poetry, philosophy,  and historical, political,
and other
     works.

     1985-1989. A conflict erupted  between leading  by L. GUNIN group - and
the powerful institution of Israeli emissaries to USSR, and
     controlled  by them Jewish political Mafia.  (Their goals - devastation
of the local Jewish cultural life, confiscation of huge aid from the
     Western Jewish communities,  and  concentration  of  the propaganda  of
immigration to Israel - L. Gunin was fighting). He also confronted
     three  important  personalities - Kebich, Alimbachkov, and  Lukashenko.
All of them became top political figures later: first one short before,
     and the two others - after his departure from USSR (The 1-st one became
the Prime Minister of Belarus, 2-nd - major of Bobruisk, and the
     3-rd is the present dictator of Belarus).
     .
     His attempts to emigrate to USA or Germany - to save his brother's life
- failed. All attempts to obtain an Israeli visa for permanent
     residency have been  failed, too.  (By then practically everybody could
easily get such a visa). Israelis did not want to allow him and his
     brother to immigrate to Israel.

     1991. After  his  brother's  death, Lev started to cancel  all steps of
immigrating to Israel. He did not want to go there by then. Soon he
     received  an order  from  KGB  to leave his native country  for Israel.
Soviet authorities sent us (family Gunin) all previously suspended visas.
     We could not say "no" to KGB,  but planned  to  escape from  Warsaw  to
Germany. At the Central railway station in Warsaw, in presence of
     L.Gunin's  Polish friends, Israelis captured us, and took us  to Israel
by force. In Israel, Mossad (Shabbak) officers verbally accused Lev in an
     attempt to  sabotage the whole operation of bringing the Soviet Jews to
Israel. Mossad approached him several times.

     In Israel we faced next persecutions:
     1) Israeli citizenship was thrust on us
     2)  Alla,  Lev's  wife, was abused,  attacked, beaten,  assaulted,  and
systematically discriminated against
     3) Elisabeth, his mother, was abused, attacked, and assaulted
     4) Children became victims of systematic humiliations and mockery
     5) Lev himself was deprived  in  his rights. Israeli authorities denied
him:
     a) valid diploma equivalent
     b) professional courses
     c) rights to enter other courses or university
     d) full and valid employment authorization
     e) registration with the State labor exchange
     f) tax exemption as all fresh immigrants were receiving
     g) welfare when he was unemployed
     h) proper and equal medical service
     i) legal, and police defense
     j) reduction of municipal taxes
     k) authorization of departure, which is required in Israel to leave the
country
     l) etc.

     He  was  beaten,  abused, discriminated  against.  Israeli  state radio
called him an enemy. One of the leading Israeli newspapers suggested
     that  his works (essays, articles, etc.)  must be destroyed. Innumerous
and systematic draft board's orders to appear affected his normal life
     and his (his family) financial situation.

     During his life in Israel  L. Gunin  published a number  of  articles &
books in Israel, Lithuania, Poland, Moscow, and Germany, criticizing Israeli
     government  for human  rights  violations  and  fascist  tendencies  in
Israel.

     1994-1996.  With  an  indirect Amnesty  International's  involvement we
could come to Canada, and claimed a refugee status. To support our
     claim we presented next types of documentary proof:
     A. Legal documents
     B. Documents, issued by Israeli government
     C. Documents, issued by all kinds of Israeli institutions
     D. Affidavits
     E. Letters
     F. Post receipts
     G. Medical documents
     H. Newspapers
     I.  Researches  made  by  International  committees  and  human  rights
organizations
     J.  Proof  that  in  Israel  we  turned  to  innumerous  organizations,
institutions, police, court, and lawyers for protection
     K. Our lawyer's documents
     L. Etc.

     Practically  each  statement,  described  in  our  refugee  claim,  was
supported by the documentary proof. Only the list of documents' description
     consisted of six pages.

     1994-1997.  In  her  translations,  our  lawyer's  secretary/translator
distorted all documents in our refugee claim. One of our two lawyers
     submitted  several messages to IRB in protest of  some outraged events.
He claimed that the IRB members took advantage of the distorted
     translations,  using  them  as  a  tool against  us. IRB  members  used
offensive, illegal methods against Lev. They interrogated only him. No
     questions  were  given  to  other  family  members.  IRB  commissioners
demonstrated their opinion that Lev GUNIN must be punished for his
     ideological (political) views. Two  members of IRB, immigration judges,
gave the whole initiative to the third member, an immigration officer, a
     Jew  and -  probably  -  Israeli,  who only spoke. During  our  refugee
hearings she manifested an outraged malicious hatred towards us, and
     maintained close  contacts with  the Israeli embassy in writing, in our
case. IRB members maintained the atmosphere of hostility and
     arbitrary attitude towards us.

     Denying our refugee claim, the IRB members not just acted unfair. Their
negative decision was not just a refusal to recognize us as
     refugees, but a  declaration-manifest,  which rejected  the basic human
rights in principle. In form of declaration, they denied in principle rights
     to have an  independent opinion, practice or  not to practice religion,
be protected by the state. IRB members claimed that if government
     paid for immigrants' transportation, immigrants became  the property of
that government (a kind of commodity). IRB members also claimed
     that police'  and other institutions'  refusal  to give protection  was
justified if people had an alternative  political /ideological opinion (even
if that
     opinion was not  expressed to police).  They claimed that  we alienated
Israelis by keeping controversial opinions, and refusing to change our
     views. And so on...

     The IRB's  negative decision became not just a  matter of  our personal
fate, but also a matter of human rights in general.

     1998. In her speech in the Federal Court,  Mrs.  Murphy, the Minister's
of Immigration representative, confirmed the IRB members' negative
     attitude  towards human rights, and  also widened  personal accusations
against Lev Gunin, turning the question of our refugee status into
     the question of his "inadmissible" (by whom?) ideological views. As IRB
did before, Mrs. Murphy refused even to mention Alla Gunin,
     Elisabeth Epstein (Gunin), and the children.

     The Federal  Judge, Mr. Dube,  just copied Mrs. Murphy's  and  the  IRB
statements, refusing to evaluate arguments of the TWO sides. He
     claimed that - because in their refusal to recognize us as refugees IRB
members used the formula "no minimal credibility", - such cases are
     automatically denied by the Federal Court. In reality, his decision was
made in contradiction to another Federal Court judge's decision in our
     case, and also contradicted the IRB's  final  (conclusive) decision. In
that decision IRB agreed that some persecutions against us (they
     called  them "difficulties")  could take  place because we  abused  the
Israelis by refusing to obey their demands to change our views. Mr.
     Dube also revealed  his partiality by  distorting some important events
and attacking our lawyer in personal. A person, whose name was also
     Dube, was  involved into  negotiations between the immigration officer,
Mrs. Malka, and the General Consul of Israel, in our case. We could
     not find that person among the IRB  headquarters' staff, or among other
immigration divisions. All faxes were submitted to Israeli consulate
     from  Mrs.  Malka,  without mentioning any other name (s). However, the
responses from the consulate were submitted to Mr. Dube. We feel
     that this mysterious Mr. Dube has something what to do with the Federal
Judge Mr. Dube.

     IRB and Mrs.  Murphy's accusations  against us were such, which are the
prerogative of the criminal court. They accused us so sharp as if
     we were killers or terrorists. In reality we are innocent people, never
accused in defamation, or fraud. In the same time, the way they acted
     might be easily considered as a criminal offence.
     We are appealing not just because  of incredible injustice, but because
the removal back to Israel means DEATH for us. If nobody in the
     whole world could prevent it, it would mean that if people are deprived
and innocent they might be kidnapped and taken to another country
     by  force.  It would mean that  demonstrative humiliations  over  human
rights, such as the IRB members and Mrs. Murphy expressed, are
     tolerated.  There  are  rumors  among  UN  staff  that  the   Universal
Declaration of Human Rights might be changed soon to fit to the brutal and
     ultra-religious  regimes'  requirements.  Please,  do something  for us
before it happened!

     The  only  way  to save  us is to help us in  obtaining  the  permanent
residents status in any civilized country. That could prevent our eventual
     removal to Israel.

     Please, help!

     Family GUNIN:
     Alla, Lev, Ina, and Marta GUNIN
     Elisabeth EPSTEIN-Gunin

     Tel. (514) 499-1294
     E-mail: [leog@total.net]



     From Lev GUNIN, April, 1999
     Dear Friends!

     In 1991 I was deported  from my native  Belarus to Warsaw because of my
political opinion.
     Together with my family (wife and 2 children) and my mother I wanted to
move from Warsaw
     to Germany.
     On the Central railway station in  Warsaw we were captured by  Israelis
and were taken to Israel
     against our will.
     We  were  widely  persecuted in Israel and were  refused an  exit  vise
during 3 and a half years.
     In 1994 we managed to quit Israel and came to Canada  seeking a refugee
status.
     In an outraged manner, openly accenting their rights for injustice, the
members of IRB
     committee refused us the status.
     Deportation to Israel means death for me and members of my family.
     The only solution is to start a legal immigration to Canada.
     But we need travel documents to afford it because:
     1)  our Israeli passports  have  expired  and  to  extend  them is  not
possible
     2) I asked the Israeli embassy to cancel my Israeli citizenship

     We  made  an  appeal  to  the  Federal  Court,  but   our  appeal   was
automatically rejected
     without any analysis of our file, just because  of the formula that the
Immigration and
     Refugee Board used in their conclusive decision. In the Federal  Court,
the Immigration
     Canada  representative,  Mrs.  Murphy,  expressed  outraged accusations
against me,
     as  if by claiming a refugee status and by criticizing the IRB decision
I have committed
     the most violent crime or was a terrorist.

     Almost  5  years  we  (my  family,  and  me)  live  under  a  threat of
deportation,
     under  the  wild persecutions  of the  Immigration Canada, institution,
which
     put the equal sign between my peaceful and legal human rights activism
     against  the former Soviet  and Israeli governments' violation of human
rights
     - and terrorism!!!

     Please, help us!


     My best wishes,

     Lev GUNIN


     August, 1997


     E-Mail: leog@total.net


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DOCUMENT NUMBER 5
     From Lev Gunin
     File number 3082-7125

CONCLUSIVE DECISION
     (Paragraph 69.1 (9) of Immigration Law)
     This is the translation in brief

     P.1.  Paragraph  1. Lev  Gunin, Marta  and Ina Gunin,  Alla  Gunin, and
Elisabeth Epstein are not recognized as refugees. Paragraphs 4-7. This
     is demanders' declaration in  brief: They came to Israel in April 1991.
When they arrived in Petach-Tikva theirs neighbors, orthodox Jews,
     were  persistent [and  aggressive]  in their  attempts to  convert them
[from atheism from one side, and passive Christianity from another side]
     to Judaism.

     Children, then 5 and 6 years old [*1] - (see commentaries), were abused
during a religious celebration at a kinder-garden [*2]. The governor
     has  found  the  situation ordinary. Dispute  the transfer  to  another
kinder-garden children faced abuses. They were bitten, bite by another
     children  [*3].  The kinder-garden  administration refused  to  protect
them.

     Demander was mocked by the  employers [*4] and bitten by his colleagues
because he is not a true Jew.

     P.2. His wife has difficulties in finding a job [*5] , and when she was
at least hired she was insulted, bitten and - under certain circumstances
     - became a victim of a sexual harassment[*6].

     There were multiple insults and abuses from theirs neighbors,  who were
furious because demanders in their eyes are not true Jews.

     They turned to police in innumerous occasions with no results. One time
police itself abused and ill-treated the demander under certain
     circumstances. His lawyer told  him that  nothing could be done against
police.

     They    contacted    innumerous    organizations    including   Amnesty
International. They wrote to members of parliament and contacted a number
     of  lawyers  with no result  [*7].  The demander  also said that he was
persecuted because of denouncing fascism [7-a].

     Demander's mother also became a victim of multiple aggressions. She was
attacked by a group of youngsters when she went to pick up
     the children from school  [*8]. Policemen at the police station refused
to pay an attention to that incident.

     In Nov.  1993  she was  attacked by  her neighbor; she stroke her  by a
basket with oranges and cried to her "goy!". It tool place at a market.

     In January 1994 in company with  her children  she went to pick them up
from school, when she was attacked by a group of youngsters, who
     thrown stones at her and injured her [*9].

     One evening in 1994 [*10] youngsters, friends  of their neighbor,  have
thrown a little box at her door [*11]. She composed a letter to police in
     that case but police never responded [*12].

     P.3. Paragraphs 1-2. In context of  that the demander together with his
family including his mother came to ask a refugee status in Canada
     [*13].

     Paragraph 3. After  seeing  that  declaration, studying  their lawyer's
arguments and other material we came to a conclusion that demanders
     are  not  refugees. We came  to  that  conclusion because  of  the next
reasons:

     Paragraphs 4-6. Demanders claim that they  flied  Israel for seeking an
asylum and because of a number of incidents, which victims they
     became. But the tribunal  is disagree with  that because [...] they all
came to Israel according to Israeli authorities permission and acceptation,
     and  also  because they  took  an  advantage  from benefits of  a  free
transportation to Israel, Israeli citizenship, a certain amount of money for
     settlement, a free language course, and other benefits. They also might
use other help because we have the documentation indicated that
     the population in Israel gives material help to newcomers.

     P.4. Paragraphs 2-5.  It is possible that during  their  life in Israel
they faced  some difficulties because some  individual ultra-religious  feel
that
     their rights are violated  because of the presence of 2  secular adults
who refuse to practice their religion. But there are no evidences that
     Russians are  persecuted  because  of their  religion, nationality,  or
because they are mixed couples or because they express anti fascist
     views as pretend the demander.

     In result we were convinced that the demanders are [dangerous for their
state] exaggerators who painted a picture of their state as a state
     of  slavery, injustice, where Russians are bitten  if they do  not work
quickly enough, where Russian children are victims of mockery
     committing by theirs classmates and teachers, and where  Russian  women
are victims of sexual harassment. And that all is going on
     without any possibility to obtain a protection from the state.

     As a result of that the demanders turned to police in several occasions
without success, to innumerous organizations, human rights groups
     and to Amnesty International, composed letters to members of parliament
and contacted more then one lawyer without getting any
     protection from the state.

     It  is incongruous  to that documentation about Israel,  which  we have
chosen. This documentation present Israel as a democratic society,
     maintaining  a  justified  juridical  system  in favor of the  citizen.
Police never have any discriminatory behavior towards Russian or Arabs.

     P..5.  Para