s marques. Elle
     participait dans des activites et evenements culturels/ artistiques des
douzaines de fois. Elle est aussi une jeune ecrivaine de poesie,
     histoire/ et compositeur.

     Marta GUNIN:
     Marta est une ballerine  talentueuse. Elle etait choisie  des douzaines
de jeunes danseurs pour le Ballet National du Canada. Marta
     participait  dans divers ballet  &  autres  performances. La sculpture,
faite par elle, etait exposee au Musee des Beaux - Arts. Elle est aussi
     une jeune compositrice/ ecrivaine d'histoire.


     Nous suggerons que les avocats doivent  ?tre  contre le chaos dans  les
matieres juridiques. La terminaison compl?te de justice devrait
     terminer la  profession  d`avocat.  C`est  pourquoi, nous esperons  sur
votre aide.

     En octobre, 1998 une reponse negative est arrivee.


     Famille GUNIN





     Document 12



     Is Lost







     THE ENFORCEMENT OF FAMILY GUNIN's PERSECUTION
     by IMMIGRATION CANADA
     Part 3


LIST OF EVENTS
     (short description)

     October, 1998 - September, 1999











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DOCUMENT NUMBER 14




     Elisabeth Gunin (Epstein) - Humanitarian & Compassionate Cases -
     (In Addition to Form IMM 5283 (02-98) E)
     REASONS
     ADJUSTMENT TO  SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION  HUMANITARIAN  & COMPASSIONATE
CASES
     Grounds for Exemption - Adjustment to Paragraphs A and B
     A
     [  A)  Canadian  Immigration  law  requires  applicants  for  permanent
residence to obtain an immigrant visa outside Canada, before coming to
     Canada.  Explain  why you believe that  your application  for permanent
residence should be processed from within Canada as an exception]

     1.  I had the joint refugee  claim with my  son,  and  his family.  The
negative decision by Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) did not mean
     that there was no danger for me to go back. I am sure that my case  was
neglected. IRB refused to evaluate my it at all. They did not
     interrogate me,  gave me  no questions, in their  speeches and in their
conclusive decision in writing I was not mentioned as a personality at
     all. They concentrated exclusively  on my  son: because they wanted  to
punish him for his attitude towards the state of Israel.
     2. So, I might face the same humiliations and the same assaults I faced
before coming to Canada.
     3. You, probably, understand, that, regarding my age, and my situation,
I have no chances to start an independent immigration procedure
     or any other procedure to obtain an immigrant visa outside Canada.
     4.  It is absolutely  clear that I can only appeal for Humanitarian and
Compassionate grounds, because other attempts not to be removed
     from Canada, linked to other immigration procedures, are not for me.


B

     [ B) What hardship would you have if appeal from outside Canada?]
     1. When  we were taken to Israel  from Warsaw, I had a strongest shock.
In result of that stressful situation my eyes disease have been
     worsen.  It became  even more severe after  what  I  still  consider as
persecutions, which we faced in Israel.
     2.  I  was  refused  the  proper  medical  help   in  Israel.   Medical
doctors-Israelis shouted on me, used abusive words and gestures. We were
     expelled from  the medical clinics we paid for. As  the  result my left
eye was neglected. When we came to Montreal, Canadian medical
     doctors saved  my eyes. But they told  me that  for not become  blind I
have to avoid stresses and high temperatures. Removing me from
     Canada  to  Israel you can  put  me under the both stress  and  heating
(Israel is one of the most hot countries in the world), and you'll make
     me blind. Please, don't do it to me!
     3.  Living  4 years in Montreal I've been  used to  local life. I  have
friends, relatives; I speak English more or less, and understand some French
     words,  too. I  have  no  close friends or relatives in Israel, I don't
speak Hebrew, and I don't know Jewish religious rules. Regarding my age,
     my eyes disease (glaucoma), my general situation,  please,  do not send
me back there!
     4. The  members of IRB could  say  just anything about our  claim.  How
could they not believe our honest and sincere claim, hundreds of
     documents we presented, our  innocence, I don't know and  don't dare to
know. I just know that I still have a non-imaginable fear to go back
     there. My blood is freezing in my veins, when I think  that  I might be
removed back there.
     5. Please, try to understand that Israel is not my native country, I am
a stranger there, I don't belong to Middle East culture and traditions.
     6. Please,  have a  merci for me  as if I  was your mother,  sister, or
daughter.

     Sincerely Yours,
     Lisa Gunin






     THE ENFORCEMENT OF FAMILY GUNIN's PERSECUTION
     by IMMIGRATION CANADA



LIST OF EVENTS
     (short description)

     October, 1998 - September, 1999




     1) 08.10.1998. -  The Second Stage Federal Court's Decision: to  reject
family Gunin's demand
     to  revise their  refugee  case.  Reasons:  one  reason  -  "cases with
Immigration Tribunal's remark
     "no minimum ground" are automatically rejected".

     2) During the Federal Court's hearing  the Immigration Canada's lawyer,
Mrs. Murphy, based
     her arguments on Lev GUNIN's "dangerous personality", insisting that he
is an aggressive,
     dangerous and anti-government trouble-maker, and because  of that  must
be expelled from
     Canada.

     3) When the  Federal Court's decision was  received Lev and Alla Gunins
were deeply
     depressed and were close to a suicide. On  the 3-rd or  4-th  day after
receiving the Federal
     Court's  decision  Lev  was so close  to  a suicide  that only physical
efforts could calm him down.
     To  relax  and  avoid  a suicide  attempt Lev  started  to  run  -  and
completely damaged his already
     damaged by batteries and other incidents ligaments on his both legs.

     4)  November, 1998. - Family Gunin submitted an appeal for Humanitarian
and
     Compassionate grounds to Immigration Canada. The appeal for the Risk of
     Return, made by Gunins in 1997, was never answered.

     5) Immediately  after  submission of that appeal Gunins started to have
difficulties in
     using their telephone line. The  wider description of what is going  on
with their telephone
     line may be found on the next page

     6) Three times BELL's technicians came to Gunins apartment  and checked
BELL's
     installation in their apartment, but found nothing.

     7)  Several times Lev GUNIN's computer (after using Internet or sending
a fax Lev
     disconnects it immediately, so that when Gunins are using the telephone
computer is
     never  connected),  was  targeted  by  computer  viruses.  The  viruses
probably came not
     through Internet but through the telephone line itself.  (See also next
page)

     8) Unknown voiced started to give Lev  Gunin and  his family advises to
live Canada
     "voluntarily", otherwise  it  will  be  "more worse" to them. The  most
persistent strangers
     called from outside Montreal, demanding a long distance  collect  call.
They called
     several  times a  week during  approximately 3  months,  starting  from
March, 1999. When
     one day Ina Gunin,  Lev's older daughter, authorized the  collect call,
they began to
     mock over her. They spoke French. When Lev took over they told him that
he received
     an unofficial removal order and was advised to leave Canada.

     9) Because of psychological pressure and tragical immigration situation
Lev started to
     injure himself. He received 6 injuries, 4 times visited emergency - and
some of the
     injuries  never healed. Both Lev  and Alla Gunin started to suffer from
extreme declining
     of their health's state.

     10) Gunins' children  are suffering  from neurothyses because they  are
also suppressed by
     the situation.

     11)  In March,  1999, Lev Gunin's work  (night auditor)  was terminated
because it was
     a temporary job. He had to take unemployment. In the same time he had a
work accident,
     and was seriously injured.  Because of the bandage  and the gravity  of
the injury in general
     he could  not go to another  work. In  the  beginning of July, when the
bandage and the
     protective plate were removed, he could not search for a physical work.
In the same time
     it is practically impossible to apply for a better job having no status
in Canada.

     12)  Because of  his immigration  situation Lev's unemployment benefits
were often
     suspended,  and  he  had difficulties  to  pay  for a renewval  of  his
Employment
     Authorization. And without it he could not receive the benefits...

     13) Because of all these  reasons but inicially because of  Immigration
Canada's
     persecutions  family  Gunin  started to  face  such  extreme  financial
difficulties as
     never before. They were pushed much below the poverty line.

     14)  Searching  for  work  Lev Gunin  applied  to  hundreeds  potencial
employers. No
     one called him  back.  He found  out what is  going  on when one of the
potencial
     employers told him that she was advised to  call  Immigration Canada or
called
     herself (it is  not completely clear) - and received a "recommendation"
not to
     employ Lev Gunin.

     15) In August, 1999,  Lev began to modernize and classify his web files
with full
     description of  Gunins immigration  case. He did  it because almost one
year
     passed since Gunins applied for  Humanitarian  grounds, and an eventual
Immigration's
     decision might  arrive soon. In case  of  a negative  decision  Lev was
planning to appeal
     to  a number  of organizations.  To eliminate  the expenses on mails he
decided to use
     his web site  as  a  primary  source.  Since  then  his  web  site  was
subbotaged. He is not
     able to  upload new versions of his  pages to his  Internet server. But
something more
     serious and dangerous occured: the server started to send  old versions
or even blank
     pages with existing files' names to Lev's computer, erasing his renewed
files and
     eliminating his work! In responce to Lev Gunin's official complaint his
server's
     representetive claimed  server's innocence and told that allien hackers
could do that.
     An  anonimous e-mail  advised Lev not  to place information  about  his
immigration
     case on his web site -  otherwise his web site will  be closed, and his
account - terminated.

     16) In the  end of August -  beginning  of September Lev Gunin finished
IGS course
     for security/investigation  agents - and succesfully  passed the  exam.
But he was refused
     the  security  agent  licence  because  of  his status.  Quin Elisabeth
Hotel's placement
     department's clerk responded to Lev's appeal  for work that they do not
want to
     employ people with no status in Canada.

     17) 08.09.1999 Gunins received a negative responce to their application
     for   Ina   Gunin's   Student  Authorization.  In   his/her   statement
Vergeville's Case
     Processing Center's agent AJL/F (now Immigration Canada stopped even
     reveal  real names  of its agents: as KGB in ex-USSR or  SS  in fascist
Germany
     did)   mentions    employment   authorization   instead   of    student
authorization. He
     gives 2 "reasons":
     "Ina Gunin was refused and employment [when we applied for student
     authorization!] authorization because a removal order, which might be
     executted,  was issued for  you. This  is why  you are  not eligible to
apply for
     employment authorization from within Canada".
     Refusing a child a student authorization Immigration Canada violated
     International  treaties, Canada's laws and human  rights granted by all
existing
     laws and  regulation. In Gunins' case only a conditional removal  order
is acting;
     a real removal  order was  never issued against them. In  the same day,
08.09.1999,
     Gunins  called  Immigration  Canada  -   and   verified   through  both
aitomatical
     information tool and an  agent (started  to speak to an agent at  12.24
p.m.) that
     there are no decisions  in Gunins  appeals for the Risk of  Return  and
Humanitarian
     and  Compassionate   grounds,  and  no  removal   order  issued  before
08.09.1999.
     In the same time it is possible that Immigration Canada means anonymous
advises
     to Gunins by unindentified callers to quit Canada, otherwise their life
will be made
     unbearable  and  misarable. Same  threats expressed during IRB  refugee
hearings
     in Gunins case gudge Mr. Boisrond and immigration officer Mrs. Malka.




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GRIGORY SVIRSKY


     Grigory Svirsky is a  famous writer, author of  the movie's  "Hostages"
scenario.
     Professor, member of Canada's and Russia's Writers' Unions

     An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. Jean Chretien
     About Gunins' immigration case



     Translation from Russian original

     To the Prime Minister uf Canada

THE OPEN LETTER
     Grigory SVIRRKY,
     Professor ot literature, writer.
     In Canada since 1973.



"THE BERLIN WALL IN CANADA"...

     So was called a letter-affidavit, containing text of my statement for a
conference in Toronto. The
     conference was  organized  on  October  22,  1997  by  the All-American
Institute for Human Rights
     Defense (Washington, D. C.) This statement criticized the Management of
Immigration Canada,
     which is obviously not in accord with any common sense  and humor: most
undesirable immigrants
     in its official document were announced... writers.


     ...
     A  writer is  a creature,  certainly, horrible. But a composer  appears
simply a horror, an invasion of
     aliens.

     The name of this composer and musician is Lev Uunin. He's 42 years old,
he is a polyglot, and is
     fluent in English,  Prench, German, Polish, Byelorussian,  and Yiddish.
His wife Alla (39) has a
     technical education. The children  -  Ina and  Marta - 11  and 12 years
old, like their father - are gifted
     in music.  Ina  plays piano and flute, Marta is a young ballerina, once
chosen by the Natiunal ballet of
     Canada  for  further  studies,  but... status, status! Of  course,  she
participates in many performances
     even  without the  status, and  her  list  of performances  is  already
longer, than that of some adult
     ballerinas.

     This family does not require any help  from the  stale. The composer is
skilled in many musical
     specialties. He tutored  children; has performed  in prestigious clubs,
concert halls, and restaurants!.

     Such  a self-sufficient family,  one should think, would be welcomed in
any country... Naturally,
     except the most racist, xenophobic-anti-Semite.

     And now  the family  is  on the verge of  catastrophe:  The Immigration
Management in Montreal has
     refused to give them the right to settle... in free Canada. Deportation
threatens them.
     Why suddenly?!

     Oh, this family, Mister Prime Minister, has an awful past.


     1.  First of  all, they  ran away from  Israel.  The Israeli  consulate
persecutes escapees by all means as
     fugitive slaves.  Then, not only the  Israeli consulate,  but even  the
immigration authorities of Canada
     assume  that Israel is a  free country, and  therefore  consider escape
from freedom as impossible...

     However, it is really  hard to understand why people run away from this
"freedom". By number of
     refugees, Israel, according  to  official statistics, is on the third -
fourth place (depending on the
     years), annually: directly after the brutal murder  regimes of Iran and
Somali.

     The  nature  of human  mentality is so, that  people willingly  believe
myths. Myths are much more
     smoother  than   the  truth.  Why  listen  to  the  confused  words  of
unfortunate refugees that Israeli
     nationalists have blocked all  venues for Russian Jews except to Israel
since the first of October,
     1989.  What  has happened (for  many years)  is a real  deportation  of
half-million free people to a
     small East country.

     That, in  itself, was a criminal abuse  of authority, humiliation  over
the principles of basic human
     rights. But today the consequences of that crime are much more painful:
nobody tried to foresee
     the results of  this irresponsible operation, which has  sharpen  up to
limits the socio-economic and
     political  situation  in  the  country.  One  can  observe the  extreme
intolerance of aboriginal Israelis
     (such  as  outcomers  from  the  countries  of  Muslim  fundamentalism:
Morocco, Algeria. Iraq and etc.)
     for new arrivants. Upon their arrival in Israel, immigrants from Africa
were deprived of privileges. As
     a  rule,  they  were taken  to  Negev desert and  left there;  and only
fragmentary army tents were
     thrown  to  them. The  care of the state  for tile  new arrivants  from
Africa ended with this.

     Naturally, former Africans were irritated by rumors that "Russians" are
given "everything"...
     Suppressed  hatred  towards  the authorities  has  found  a  convenient
outlet: non-sanctioned
     murders  of  the immigrants from Russia,  non-provoked battering of the
"Russian" children in
     schools, a  wave  of  rapes of new "Russian" immigrants.  The last case
reported by the world press
     (a week ago): a policeman (a Moroccan origin) extremely irritated by an
Israeli soldier, who loudly
     spoke with his friends in Russian in  a restaurant, stabbed the soldier
with a knife and killed him.
     (Moscow newspaper "Koмepcaнт Daily."  ("Commersant  Daily") of November
13, this year, and
     tens of other editions wrote about it).

     In the  last  years  the  attitude of  the  Israeli  aborigines to  new
arrivants has deteriorated alarmingly.
     The Israeli and American press  in Russian has now informed the readers
about a pogrom in
     Jerusalem's religious quarter "  Mea Shearim". Angry crowds have beaten
"Russians", burned their
     furniture,  broken  glasses  in   their   motor   vehicles.  Only   the
intervention of the Israeli army stopped
     murders... One rabbi,  associate of the mayor of Jerusalem, has  called
his co-religionists for this
     pogrom.

     Why  then has the immigration board  heard, with a grimace of mistrust,
the testimony, that the
     wife of composer Gunin, ethnically Russian (she's from a mixed family),
was persecuted, called "
     Russian whore ",  prostitute.  According  to supplied documents she was
cleaning the subsidiary
     premises of a shop, where she worked as a  cashier. Influenced by spasm
of brutaliен aborigines
     took the mop from her hands  and hit her on the head with it, then they
severely beat her up
     half-to-death. She arrived home with injuries and bruisies.

     And the small Gunins' daughters, who in kindergarten were preparing for
holiday Sukkot's
     celebration,  learning  verses  and  songs   with  burning  eyes,  were
separated from all others and
     locked in a dark closet with "You are not Jews, this holiday is not for
you." as only explanation.

     As  soon as  the  composer  published  articles  against  narrow-minded
small-town nationalism and
     racism, in defense of human rights, this intellectual man was be