Refugee board reserves decision on asylum seeker
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This article was published 23/03/2017 (3243 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
An asylum seeker who made international headlines after nearly freezing to death crossing the border into Canada Dec. 24 will have to wait to find out if he can stay in Canada.
The Immigration and Refugee Board reserved its decision Thursday after a refugee protection hearing in Winnipeg for Seidu Mohammed.
His lawyer Bashir Khan say they don’t expect to get the decision for 10 weeks.
The refugee claimant fled Ghana because of his sexual orientation and that African country’s persecution of gay people.
He made his way to the U.S. where he was held in an immigration detention centre until he appeared without any legal assistance before a judge who rejected his request for refugee protection.
With anti-refugee sentiment growing in the U.S. and the election of President Donald Trump, Mohammed feared he would be sent back to Ghana. He went to Minneapolis then got a ride to North Dakota where he was dropped off just south of the Canadian border.
He and a fellow asylum seeker walked for hours north in a dangerous wind chill until a trucker picked them up near Letellier. Both refugee claimants were taken to hospital with severe frostbite and lost fingers.