Citing prior U.S. convictions, the Immigration and Refugee Board blocks as ‘inadmissible’ former U.S. Army intelligence analyst who leaked government secrets
A Canadian tribunal has ruled that former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning must remain barred from the country because of her criminal convictions in the United States.
In her legal arguments and testimony via videolink last October, Ms. Manning argued that she is a principled whistleblower of global significance whose unique circumstances should override the standard interpretation of Canada’s border laws. In 2013, a U.S. judge sentenced the former private to 35 years in prison after finding her guilty of most of the charges related to the leak. Her sentence was later commuted by U.S. president Barack Obama.
But the tribunal upheld Ottawa’s core contention that Canada’s borders are closed to any foreigner with a conviction for crimes that would be punishable with a prison sentence of 10 years or more in Canada.
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