psychologist couldn't speak with our son, but wrote a report based on ungrounded insinuations. When later a Russian-speaking

psychologist appeared he translated him that report but told that it is impossible now to dispute what the Israeli wrote.

When our son was in the military prison severe humiliations were committed over him. All the violations of the rules and of the moral norms

in his case were too innumerable to mention them. During his imprisonment our son was transformed from a healthy person to a mentally ill

boy. When he was released from the military prison (he was in the prison more then 3 months; no charges were posed against him, no court

took place) the military medical committee recognized him as a mentally ill person. When he was just imprisoned he was recognized as a

fully healthy person suitable to the military service.He received some treatment here, in Canada, and the immigration board know it. We did

everything we could to release our son from the military prison. But the civil lawyers refused to take his case as soon as they heard about

the conflict with the army. Some of them assaulted us refusing to take the case.We demanded a military lawyer but the military

commandature in Jaffo denied us a military lawyer. We turned to all the possible places like Israel Bar Association, human rights

organizations, Sharansky's Zionist Forum, Israel and foreign media, state officials: nobody couldn't or didn't want to help us. Then we

decided to send a letter to Amnesty International. A friend of us - a dissident and a journalist Lev G.
– has contacted Amnesty International

and later submitted several faxes to them. When the authorities realized that we complained to Amnesty International they released our

son from the military prison.

We couldn't live in Israel any more after what happened to us and to our son there, and also because we were afraid that our son can be

arrested again if we will stay in Israel. The only reasonable solution for us was to escape. And the only way to do it was to become refugee

claimants. We flied to Montreal in November, 1994.

We have submitted all the documentary proof we had to support our claim to the immigration board (committee). We also sincerely

described what happened to us in our claim's atory without any distortion or exaggeration. But what happened to us in the immigration

courtroom and between and after our 2 hearings is just incredible...

Why We Think Our Human Rights Were Violated By the Court?

Inside The Courtroom:

1)Some of the main documentary proofs (statements, affidavits, letters, receipts, articles, ect.) were ignored as if they never existed.

2)Other extremely important documents were mentioned but were ignored (if not - they might be an obstacle to what the judges

incriminated us). 3) Other documents (including Amnesty International's confirmation of our complain) were mentioned as incomplete proof

of particular events, when in reality they were given to support other events. In the same time documents which relate to these events were

ignored. 4) The same way our words were ignored, too. For example, I was asked an insinuating question. My answer closed that question

by a clear and unbeatable conterargument. So, what then? Then the same insinuation was repeated - but this time in an affirmative form:

As if I said nothing. The same question could be given 2, 3, 5 times non-stop. If I gave the same answer again and again they shouted on

me, used threats, aggression, incredible accusations to force me to change my answer. It's clear that such a method violates moral and

legal norms - and any hesitation by a refugee claimant under such an illegal psychological pressure can not be taken into consideration. 5)

Too often they questioned us giving us no rights to response. They shuted us down replacing our eventual answer by their own - and later

based their conclusions not on our answers but on their own statement posing it as our - not their - words. 6) It was repeated again and

again that they doubt about our rights to appeal (for a refugee status) because our actions (when we were in Israel) weren't a good

solution. As examples of "good solutions" were mentioned: A demolition of our family, a criminal offense - and so on! 7) Several times the