and to work with people. We were stopped by the authorities, disrupted and persecuted. Supported by the communists Rodov announced himself as a chairman, avoiding open and free elections and his followers formed local "Jewish council." People - like me - who restored the Jewish life and created the Jewish club, were expelled from that life and from that club. 2.8. As soon as they seized the power, "Rodovers" started to suppress all activities and cultural events in the Jewish society. They ruined everything that we created: very soon, including Yiddish course and all other courses and activities. They concentrated only on pro-Israeli propaganda and propaganda of immigration to Israel, Hebrew course and religious propaganda. When religious in Israel became the most influential force in institutions, which maintained work among potential immigrants in USSR, Rodov supporters converted themselves into ultra-orthodox. (Before that they were fighting atheists). They also used to confiscate the huge wave of help, gifts, money, which was streaming from the west Jewish communities to Soviet Jews. They have stolen about one thousand valuable gift sets from Baptist community of Finland to the local Jewish community. That gift was handed over through Iakov Gutman, an independent from Israelis leader of Minsk's Jews, to me. The sets were given for free delivery. I wanted to deliver them directly from my home to the people in exchange of their signatures in confirmation that they got them free. But Rodov's group forced me (and Iakov Gutman) to hand them over to the club, using dirty manipulations. Rodov and his group sold the sets as their private property. They openly violated the criminal code not only by then. They also robbed our Jewish library 2 times, they threaten people by death, they corrupted local officials, and they demanded money from people for information about Israel and for Israeli visas. They also demanded money for the "club needs", threatening people that - if they would refuse, they would be punished in Israel. Israelis also paid them for their services. In ex-USSR, where an imported TV with video could be almost as valuable as an apartment, they got expensive valuable things from Israelis as gifts. I suspect that they were paid by money, too. A special telephone number was given to Rodov, which enabled him to call Israeli embassy in Moscow and to Israel for free (according to his own words, and I believe that it was true). 2.9. Rodov and co "punished" me in different ways. They spread discreditible rumors against me, they posed intrigues against me at my work, they threaten me, they did so, that I was not invited any more to play in restaurants, on wedding parties, in dancing clubs, and so on, they tried to confront my wife with me. I am absolutely sure that Rodov's actions against me were correlated with the persecutions, which I faced from the local authorities. In Minsk I used to visit Mr. Garik Chajtovich, - my friend and a kind person. He was a Jewish activist and Hebrew teacher. Practically all the Israeli missioners have visited him. I met few high-ranked Israeli representatives through Garik or in his place several times and spoke to them. I tried to convince them that they should stop supporting odious persons like Rodov and to stop suppressing the development of Jewish cultural life in USSR. They usually answered that their priority is to convince people to leave for Israel, and they do not care about anything else. But one time I got an unusual answer. The man who gave it to me was a very important person. I could admit how Garik respect and treat him. Even Israelis who were with this man obeyed him. He told me that I have to stop talking about such things. He also told me that he has a pity to me because, according to him, I would pay a high price for my "nihilism" and freethinking, my family, my relatives would suffer, and my life will become miserable... 2.10. Because with time people were convinced that Rodov is a crook, and were too angry on him, I, brothers Strupinsky, Marat Kurtzer and others took the power in our own hands, discharging Rodov and his company. Only then I understood very soon that the problem was not in Rodov. Without him Israelis have found other ways to achieve their goals. And very soon my position became as weak as before. Israelis also took revenge in Minsk, displacing Iakov Gutman, the main figure in opposition to their policy in Belarus. Now nothing might stop them from forcible (in the deeper sense) transportation of hundred of thousands Jews from Belarus to Israel. 2.11. From 1988 my brother's health became more and more bad. He has a blood cancer, but I was sure that his disease was caused because he was exposed to radiation. During many month doctors Kustanovich (she died recently in USA from cancer), Cherny and Petrusha did not report Vitaly's bad blood tests. They also accused him in simulating to "avoid military service" and threaten to kill him. Since he became sick I fought to get his true diagnose and to win an appropriate treatment for him. In the end of 1987 we understood that for saving my brother's life we have to move to one of the West countries. I tried to get an immigration visa to US, but America was "closed" very soon because of a treaty, which Israel demanded: about leaving the only one way for Soviet Jews - only to Israel. I also tried to get a visa in the German embassy, but it was too late. Then we had to request a visa only from Israel. We did all necessary steps to obtain it, but we did not get any visas. Hundreds of people whom I helped to get visas (I told them that I do not recommend them to go to Israel, but they kept asking me with passion, and I helped them) got them, but not my brother and me. Even Genady Shulman, one from the Rodov's group, who was kind to us and arranged visas for thousands of people, could not obtain visas for my brother, and me. I went to Moscow, to Israeli embassy, where they knew me very good as one of the activists and where I always had an access to, and spoke to Ambassador Mr. Levin, but without any result. In 1988 Israel have submitted special visas-invitations for Jewish activists for a free trip to Israel. In spite of my detestation of Rodov I phoned him in an attempt to save my brother's life (because he composed a list of names for these invitations). "What did your brother did for the Jewish movement, for Zionism? - he asked. Avoiding tensions I did not tell him that my brother did for Rodov more then he deserved and that my brother put his business under a risk organizing Jewish events when the local authorities did not approve them. I only asked him about compassion. "There are more valuable things then human life, - he responded. Later I had a chance to see what these things are. Nobody from Rodov's group went to Israel with that free invitation, only Rodov's father went to Israel because he did small speculation trade under the table, and used that occasion as a shield... In August, 1989 my brother, and me, we went to Poland, where a blood test, which was made to him, had shown strange processes in his organism. In September I started a new Jewish magazine "Vos Herzach?" and participated in a current issue of "CONTACT." My brother Vitaly gave his cafÙ (he was the owner) again for the Jewish club meeting. In September also came a telephone threat that my brother Vitaly would die. In January 1990 another person called and told the same. 2.12. When in 1989 first letters began to arrive from those who already settled in Israel, their relatives discovered that Russian speaking people are persecuted in Israel, that Israelis hate us and treat us as second-class people, many of the Jews in Bobruysk cancelled their tickets and visas. It seemed to be a total disaster for Israeli plan to capture half a million or more Soviet Jews. But they have found a solution very soon. Somebody began to spread rumors about possible pogroms. Every day brought a "reliable" information that Jews are in danger. Jewish cemeteries were vandalized everywhere. By that time I was a member of a group that investigated this wave of vandalism. Most active members in that group were Baltic Jews. A small Baptist team and NTS representatives also participated. We discovered that vandalism started in west regions of USSR and moved chronologically from the Northwest to Southeast. Pogroms in Muslim region were not known. It was absolutely clear that a team of "vandals" traveled by train from town to town, from city to city, starting from Riga. They had a steady pace, so, Soviet authorities (if they would want to stop hooligans) could figure out very easy where should be their next stop and next pogrom - and catch them. But the authorities did not want to stop them. Israelis also used different methods to calm down information about vandalism. I personally (as well as others) took the description of our conclusions about vandalism to Israeli embassy, but they became furious and refused to send this information to Israeli press. I have submitted the description about vandalism against Jewish cemeteries (without our conclusion) to Washington Post and Chicago Tribune correspondents in Moscow, as well as to Israeli newspapers (enclosing photos of vandalized graves), but no newspaper outside USSR published this information. I was sure that Israelis used their influence to prevent newspapers from that publication. I was even more convinced about Israeli involvement when such a pogrom happened in my native town. Graves that related to non pro-Israeli activists' were mainly targeted, when pro-Israeli families' graves were not touched. My father's grave was vandalized, the monument was broken. 2.13. I informed US president's special representative, Mr. Nikolai Petro, that Israelis are using illegal methods to force people to leave USSR for Israel. I also contacted several US diplomats including Mrs. Daria Arturovna Fein. I met Daria Arturovna at hotel "Ukraine" in Moscow. She took a look at the photos and asked if they are not a fake. I told her that I could give her an original film from which the photos were made. And I gave the film to her. She held the film several minutes in her hands. I saw that she is trembling. After some hesitation she gave the film and the photos back to me, refusing to admit them and giving no explanations. I told to prominent personalities in Frankfurt, in Warsaw and in Paris about these acts of vandalism, but they could not organize even a single publication. 2.14. In January-February 1990 I came to Paris hoping to obtain a visa for my brother. I was warmly welcomed by all Jewish organizations in Paris and Lion, which I visited, and also by Russian immigrants' organizations, including NTS. They gave me money, shelters, they bought me train tickets to Lion several times. My French friends also helped me a lot. I could not tell Jews that I do not want go to Israel. They supported Israel's plan to get from half to one million people from USSR. To justify my request for help in obtaining the French visa for my brother I told them that during almost 2 years we could not get an Israeli visa. After that some leaders of the Jewish organizations in Paris, including M-me Helman from COJASOR, proposed me their mediation in my request for an Israeli visa. They told me that Jewish communities in France have collected so much money for Israel, that Israelis must listen to them. M-me Helman and others arranged a meeting for me with Israelis in Israeli embassy. A visa for me and for my brother had to be given for me there. I knew that local AVIR in Bobruysk could not accept a visa, which came not by mail, and could not give us a permission to leave USSR. But I had no solution. When I came to Israeli embassy, which situated down the Le SacrÙ Coeur de Monmartre, they did not let me in. I called the doorbell, and also phoned them several times with no result. 2.15. My brother Vitaly tragically died in May 1990. Half a year after his death I discovered just occasionally that the Jewish community in Lion have collected money for his treatment and have submitted a medical treatment visa for him. This visa was confiscated by the Soviet authorities.... After his death I did not need an Israeli visa any more - because I never wanted to immigrate, and from 1987 I understood very well that my place is not in Israel. Before my brother's death we sold some of our property and did other steps expecting a visa from Israel, but now we suspended all such steps. 2.16. One day - when Rodov already left for Israel - one former "Rodovetz" called my doorbell when my wife was at work. I opened the door, and then he told me that he missed my door with somebody else's. In that very moment another person have approached. He asked, "is Gunin lives here?". I recognized him. Living near KGB building I often saw him entering it. I also saw him at the Jewish club where he was with Mr. Sheremetiev, local UKGB chairman. Ilia Rodov has invited him by then to the club to read a lecture. Later I saw this man (who came to visit me) with Rodov in Bobruysk as minimum two times. He started to speak to me without entering my apartment. He told me that I have to quit USSR for Israel within two months. He said that this decision about me is non-reversible and can not be appealed. I was so terrified that I could not speak. But I only asked him what about Israeli visa. "Visa budet"" ("visa will come"), he told in response. And he also told me that I should go directly to Israel, without tricks. 2 days after visas started to arrive. All visas - a whole package, - which were suspended before, came in 2 envelopes (see Supplements, Documents # 20, a,b,c,d,e, etc. - total number is 11).. Where these visas were and who kept them, I do not know, but it convinced me that the situation is very serious, and I must go. When after two months we did not leave USSR yet, such terrible, even monstrous events occurred that I understood: I must go. 2.17. It did not mean that I agreed to go to Israel. I secretly asked my friends in Poland to meet me at the Central Railway Station in Warsaw. I had to try to visit foreign embassies in Warsaw, and, if it could give nothing, then we had to go to Germany (my friends had to buy us tickets to Frankfurt). When our train came to Warsaw, and my Polish friends already approached to the wagon, a group of unknown people surrounded and captured us. One of them, probably chairman, spoke Polish with a Hebrew accent. It was a big man in his middle ages. Mostly he spoke to me, and also an aggressive woman. They were ready to take us with them immediately by physical force, but only the presence of my Polish friends made them hesitating. I am sure that they started negotiations with us only to win the time: they probably used it to find out through Mossad sources who are my friends and what they able to do. They probably also wanted to find out what consequences Israelis would have in case of an eventual scandal, what tactics to use against us, and what their supervisors recommended. They disagree immediately to let us go with my friends. Meanwhile my friends called 2 Polish policemen. I told the policemen that I do not want go to Israel, I asked for their help. The policemen told me that if I was agree to obtain Israeli visa - then I probably must go to Israel. Then I shown them a temporary visa for staying in Poland 3 days, and told them that only after 3 days I might be expelled from Poland, and not by Israelis... The policemen then went to hear what Israelis could say them. I did not hear what they discussed - because they moved farther from me (my family stayed with the Israelis as hostages while I spoke to policemen), but when they finished talking, the policemen left. We were taken to a hotel, completely surrounded and guarded by Israelis, from where we could not escape, and then - to the airport. So, my family, and me, we were taken to Israel by force, against our will, this was a captivity! Israel is not our country. Our native country is Belarus, and we still consider ourselves as citizens of Belarus. We are not Israeli citizens because that citizenship was thrust on us. NOTE: I could support this statement by my declarations, which I made, when I lived in ex-USSR and in Israel. You could see obviously that these declarations were written many years ago or even make a criminological test to define their age. They are: 1) My declaration to the procuratories of the both districts of city Bobruysk (Lenin and Pervomay), and to the General procuratory of Bobruysk, in which I tried to protest my ultimative deportation to Israel. (1990) 2) My declaration about Israel's illegal activity in Belarus (1988-89). 3) My declaration to the Israeli authorities (1991-1994). Please, take it into considaration ! ! ! NEXT DOCUMENT: Document Number 3 PREVIOUS DOCUMENT: Document number 2 For Mr. Louis-Phillippe SIMARD, Manager, Post Determination Review FROM Lev GUNIN (FILE Number 2948-6524/ 95/76/23/18 ID: 3082-7125/7174/7220/7231/7317/) DOCUMENT NUMBER 3 TRANSLATOR'S SABOTAGE 3.1.The very first time went to Mr. Le Brune's office when we were in a hotel for refugees (YMCA) yet. 3.2.We also came to Mrs. Broder's apartment to "complete the PIF" and to "compose the story" in November 1994. 3.3.I told Mrs. Broder that I have already composed my refugee claim. And gave her the text of my claim in Russian and in English. I refused to cooperate with her in "composing the story." She was extremely persistent and ultimate, but also flexible and cunning in achieving her goals. When she understood that she could not break my will not to participate in "composing the story," she told us to come later. Between that and the next appointment my wife was worked upon by Lucy (our relative, whose negative attitude towards me in ex-USSR and in Israel scared me a lot in the past) and by Mrs. Broder. They told her that all direct or indirect criticism of the state of Israel must be excluded from my statement. They also told that I should not mention Israeli army, censorship in Israel, human rights violations, police brutality, and provocation against me made by police; my tensions with Mossad and Shabak, or persecutions against me ordered by Israeli authorities. The psychological pressure on my wife and on me was so strong that it could push us towards a suicide. We also met Mr. Le Brune in that period of time, and he also suggested that our claim have to be based on everyday occurrences and social conflicts, but not on political persecutions. When we met Mrs. Eleonora Broder next time I started to fight each sentence, but it was very complicated since my wife had arguments with me taking Eleonora's side. But I want to make it clear: MY WIFE AND ME - WE NEVER AUTHORIZED MRS. BRODER TO CHANGE OR MODIFY OUR REFUGEE CLAIM. We only agreed to allow some shortening. 3.4.Very soon Mrs. Broder called us and told us to sign her translation. I asked her to read us the context in Russian, but she refused motivating her refusal by the lack of time. She also told us that only 5 more days are left (to complete the PIF and submit the claim; and that the total number of days is 14), and if it would not be submitted, then a deportation order is going to be issued for us. (In reality 20 days or even more are given, but we did not know about that). Then I told her that I could type my story with her shortenings just in 1 hour in English myself - and give her or another translator to sign it (because I wanted to control its context, and I was not good enough in French by then). She told me that in Quebec only French-written claims are accepted. Because of her threats and because my wife was near a hysterics I was forced to sign it. 3.5.In December 1994 and January 1995 I gave a copy of Mrs. Broder's translation of my refugee claim to several people; they knew French very well. Using their help I discovered that the context of our refugee claim was seriously distorted and sometimes even converted by Mrs. Broder. Some details were given in such interpretation (translation) that they contradicted with other details. We also discovered that the text of her French translation was different from her back translation into Russian made after my request and written by her own hand. (I wanted to verify her translation). When Lucy's purposes of what she did to us might been explained by various reasons, the purpose of Mrs. Broder might be only one: to sabotage the translation. I repeat that she distorted the translation not because of incompetence or unconsciousness mistakes but on purpose. And I have good evidence: she excluded one paragraph from my story without even discussing it with us. It was a description of humiliation over other Russian-speaking workers and me by employers-Israelis in August 1991. Instead of typing this paragraph she made a statement in my name not just generalizing the situation, but placing an abstract declaration about slavery in Israel. When I asked her later why she did it, she answered that immigration commissioners would never believe that something like this exist in Israel. "They would call it "slavery" - and tell you that slavery doesn't exist in Israel. Why then she inserted that pure statement about slavery in Israel in my name? If even a description of real events, which could be treated as a denunciation of slavery is "bad", a pure statement about slavery (without any explanation) is "more worse" then?! I could only explain that by favor, which Mrs. Broder did to the commissioners (immigration oficer in particular) - because they later used this exactly paragraph (in Mrs. Broder's translation of my refugee claim) as a key indication of "exaggerations" and based their rejection of our refugee claim mostly on it. Mrs. Broder also told me that she inserted this paragraph because I mentioned slavery in one of our conversations. I said that it does not mean that I permitted to insert it. 3.6. I said that I do not remember if I really said that. In response Eleonora said that she secretly recorded all our conversations and now could prove that I told it. She never agreed to correct her translation. She even threaten me by telling that she is going to present above mentioned tapes to the immigration tribunal - and she claimed that I spoke enough on these tapes to make a conclusion that I am dangerous to Israel and "was persecuted correctly". 3.7. The translation of our claim was also made in a sarcastic and humiliating manner as if the translator not just repeated the Russian text in French, but wrote a humorist story about what was described. 3.8. Lucy constantly threatened us during my dispute with Eleonora, and I think that her threats came as a reaction on my pretensions to Eleonora. She was threatening us from February till May 1995. She told that she did a lot for us - but we are not thankful - and we are going to pay for it. She often told us with bravado that she knows everything about us. She said that some people follow us, that my phone is bugged, and that my mails are searched. And she demonstrated her knowledge about really discreet information, which should be known only to my lawyer. I asked my lawyer and demanded from Mrs. Broder not to make publicly known information, which should be discreet, but Lucy demonstrated her access to everything, what took place in my lawyer's office -from the dates of our appointments with him to the dates of our immigration hearings, and so on. She used to come to the immigration tribunal each time when our hearings took place - and even appeared in the room where the hearing took place: each time without our permission. 3.9. One time she told me with the same bravado (it was in February 1995) that a very partial committee is going to be assigned to my file. She told me that an especially aggressive immigration officer would be called from Toronto "to calm" me down. She was right. 3.10. Later it came out that Mrs. Broder sabotaged not only our immigration claim, but also translations of the articles, of documents, in other words - everything, what she has to translate. Her distortion of the my wife's birth certificate data enabled immigration officer to excuse her report made to the Israeli embassy about us. 3.11. Not only Lucy was related to Israel, but also Mrs. E. Broder. Soon after we met she married a businessman from Israel, who maintained all business contacts in Israel - according to his words. She was born in Odessa, but lived several years in Cuba: it is also an information to reflect. 3.12. It is too painful for me to believe that my lawyer did not remove two above-mentioned paragraphs that Mrs. Broder inserted without our permission because he acted on purpose. I still want to trust him, and I prefer to think that he was tired, and this was what caused his mistake. When he was finishing to fix "mistakes", distortions and non-authorized "adjustments", which Mrs. Broder have did in her "translation", it was late at night, and both him, and me, especially, my mother, were tired, and I did not check the translation properly. I also trusted him, and this is why I signed the new version without a proper check. I also prefer to think that he did not let me verify translations of all the documents in my file before the hearings (I asked him many times to give me documents of my file for a control) because he was constantly busy, and could not prepare them to me. If he would give me that chance, I could discover before the hearings that Mrs. Broder falsified the translation not only of our claim, but of all other documents as well (like my wife's certificate). I know that the immigration committee, which gave no positive decision to "Russians" from Israel at all, would answer "no" even if there were no distortions in translations at all. 3.13. Some sort of misunderstanding - I believe - happened between my lawyer and me, in result of which the most important remarks about IRB's negative decision in our case were not submitted with the appeal. This is why I am asking you to take this submission in consideration when decision in my appeal will be considered. I submitt examples of Mrs. Broder's sabotage in Supplements, Documents # 92,93, 94, 95, 96, 97. NEXT DOCUMENT: [[[GROUP OF DOCUMENTS NUMBER 4]]] PREVIOUS DOCUMENT: [[[DOCUMENT 3 of DOCUMENTS]]] GROUP OF DOCUMENTS NUMBER 4 APRIL-MAY 1997 DOCUMENT 1 (2-nd version) (Was submitted to Amnesty International via E-MAIL) MY COPY OF APPEAL TO AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Why I appeal? 1) Because my complains, which I once submitted to Amnesty International from Israel, played if not the main, a very important role during all the 3 immigration hearings in our case. 2) Because if not directly, then indirectly (from a particular point of view) IRB members insinuated that I must be punished for my contacts with Amnesty International. 3) Because what happened during my immigration hearing here in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) is so incredible and horrible that will encourage human right violations everywhere on a wider scale. 4) Because in the former USSR as well as in Israel I was a human rights activist and was considered a human rights activist by the people and press. 5) Because during the hearing the immigration officer falsified Amnesty International's (and other human rights organizations') documents and lied about them. 6) Because if a family comes to a country (which accepts refugees in general) but faces abuses, ungrounded accusations, threats, hatred and injustice within an immigration court room - that means a mayhem for the human rights, placing the very basis of human rights in jeopardy. 7) Because I'm absolutely certain (and I have presented undeniable evidences to the immigration board) that I'm going to be killed and the members of my family are going to be killed if we will be turned back to Israel since I could suggest that something like a death penalty was considered there against me for my views. Why I Appeal Before I Have The Immigration Board's Final Decision In My Case? 1) Because I have to dispute the very procedure of the hearing in our case, which abused us and placed our lives under the definite danger. 2) Because I know of some examples when a final negative decision was sent to refugee claimants together with a deportation order without the rights to appeal. 3) Because after what happened during our immigration hearing I feel insecure even here. 4) Because it looks like they violated some legal and moral norms while hearing our case not for giving us later a positive decision. 5) Because now, when the information about us was submitted by the immigration officer to Israel there can be a wave of wider pressure from Israel to turn us back. I was actually expelled from the former USSR, where I was persecuted for my artistic, philosophical, ideological and political views, where I was beaten, prevented from social and professional success, watched and threatened. I was deported to Israel. When we moved away from the USSR we tried to escape to a third country but were captured by Israelis and were taken to Israel by force. We were systematically assaulted, beaten, disgraced, threatened, discriminated against (persecuted) in Israel. We were denied a permission to leave the country, and could not go away for 3 1/2 years. We collected thousands of evidences in discrimination and persecutions. Israeli state radio made a provocation, aiming to eliminate me, Israeli newspapers called to destroy all my works - but for this immigration board it's still not "enough"... *Why I Think My Human Rights Were Violated By the Court? Inside The Courtroom: 1)Some of the main documentary proofs (statements, affidavits, letters, receipts, articles, etc.) have been disappeared or were ignored as if they were (disappeared).See pages A-1, A-2, A-3, A-4, A-5. 1-a)Only my college diploma was mentioned during immigration hearings, and the commissioners acted as if my university diploma does not exist. In reality I mentioned it during the hearings and the copy of this diploma also was in my file. 2)Other extremely important documents were mentioned but were ignored (if not - they might be an obstacle to what the judges incriminated me). Pages B-1,B-2,B-3,B-4.B-5. 3) Other documents 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. Pages C-1, C-2. 4) In the same way my words were ignored, too. For example, I was asked an insinuating question. My answer closed that question by a clear and unbeatable contra-argument. 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. D-1, D-2, D-3, D-4. 5) Too often they questioned me giving me no rights to response. They shouted me down replacing my eventual answer by their own - and later based their conclusions not on my answer but on their own statement posing it as my - not their - words. E-1, E-2, E-3, E-4. 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! F-1, F-2. 7) Several times the board members expressed their disapproval by the norms of democracy or by my approval of the democracy laws. G-1, G-2, G-3. It is absolutely clear that our case was treated not according to Canadians laws but according to the rules and norms of Israel since - in the judges' eyes - we belong not to Canadian but to Israeli jurisdiction. G-4, G-5, G-6. This position - neither being ordered to the board or being the product of the board itself - made the courtroom a part of Israel's territory. G-7, G-8. 8)The procedure of our immigration hearing wasn't an investigation in our case but a pure pro-Israel's propaganda. Its goal wasn't to detect whether or not our claim for refugee status is justified but to defend the image of Israel as a "good" country in an imprudent and abusing form. The depersonalization of our claim was done in an extreme form ignoring our personal history. So the only criteria chosen to support the board's point of view was the very fact that we came from Israel. But the only admissible attitude to refugees has to base the decision on what happened to them personally, not on which country they flied. H-1, H-2, H-3. 9)The members of the board expressed their detestation of the human rights defense and verbally denied (directly or indirectly) a number of recognized human rights.I-1, I-2, etc. 10)They also (indirectly, but clear) expressed a point that if I'll be punished in Israel for my views - it's justified because I'm "guilty" J-1, J-2, etc. 11)Sending faxes to Israeli embassy and demanding some definite information about us, the immigration officer violated another moral and judicial principle: Not to announce asylum seekers claim to the government of a country refugee claimants escaped from .K-1, K-2, etc. 12)Reading Amnesty International's and other reports the immigration officer distorted and sometimes falsified their meaning.L-1, L-2,ect. 13) Documents submitted by the Israeli government, by it's dependents or by it's embassy were considered as absolutely reliable and were voluntarily represented by the tribunal as non-debatable. In the same time documents that were represented by my lawyer (or my documents) - newspapers, statements, declarations, and so on - weren't treated as equal to Israeli propaganda papers. More then that: At least our documents were completely ignored: As if they never existed. In the same time the documentation presented by Israeli government can't be treated as an arbitrary source: Because Israel is involved. Meanwhile a number of my documents may be considered as more objective and independent. M-1,M-2, etc. 14) The immigration officer used 1) an open lie 2) threats 3) desinformation; 4) expressed an unexplained malicious anger towards us; 5) claimed one thing to defend her position during our hearing and claimed the contrary during the hearing in Metelnitsky family case (our cases are related, and I was called as a witness to their hearing); 6) she lied about what I said, about what she previously said , about what was said about the situation in Israel and so on; 7) her behavior towards us and Metelnitsky family was so incredibly aggressive as if she had a personal reason to punish us, or to exterminate us. N-1,N-2,etc. 15)A "yes" or "no" answer was demanded in situations when it was clear that such an answer is absolutely impossible. Demanding "yes" or "no" answer only they justified their decision not to let me speak.O-1,O-2, etc. Outside The Courtroom: 1)When we came to Montreal I put everything that happened to us in Israel in writing and gave that piece of paper to my first lawyer's translator, Mrs. Eleonora Broder. She sabotaged the translation distorting the sense of my story, inserting her own inventions and sentences which sounded like provocation. I demanded a translation back to Russian from her, and she did it. She wrote it by her own hand. That manuscript is quite different from her French version. So, she did it to smoothen the distortions and to prevent me from complaining. I have also other proofs of her sabotage.2-A, 2-A1, 2-A2, etc. 2) Mrs.Eleonora Broder sabotaged the translations of newspaper's articles as well. From one hand she exaggerated a number of descriptions of persecutions against Russian-speaking people "to do me a favor" (I think her goal was to discredit these articles). But on the other hand she excluded the most important paragraphs in her translation and gave the opposite meaning to the most important facts and conclusions.2-B, etc. 3) Mrs.Eleonora Broder also sabotaged the translation of some official papers and other documents which I prepared to support my claim. She told us that she has translated some of them and that she would find a translator from Hebrew - but it was a lie. If not our complains to the lawyer and an alert note we gave to him: Then no documents were translated. 2-C,ect. 4)Mrs.Eleonora Broder and her assistant organized a psychological warfare on my wife causing her deep depression, and also provoked us to attempt suicide.2-D,ect. 5) Mrs. Broder inserted some particular phrases into my refugee claim, which I didn't want to see there. Later, in the courtroom, these phrases were used against me. These phrases were taken from articles, which I wrote before we escaped from Israel. Among them were the articles, which I hadn't presented to Mrs.Broder or to my lawyer when she was doing the translation of my refugee claim. The members of the immigration board have exploited these phrases again and again: What leads to a suggestion that it might not happened occasionally.2-E, etc. 6) There is a visible connection between the immigration officer - and information, which might possess only Mr.Mark Kotlarsky, who lives in Israel. This gentlemen acted once as an informer and a provocateur for Israeli authorities. He wrote an article about me in 1994, in Israel. This article was written in a humiliated and sarcastic manner. Mr.Kotlarsky used the information, which I shared with him (as with a close friend of mine) against me. This article is outright slander, mystification, false insinuations and lie... Before I discovered that Mark Kotlarsky might act as a government's agent I told him some things which I never told to any other person. During our immigration hearing and during the hearing of family Metelnitzky these things were used by the immigration officer (against me). I have no other explanation but that she's might be in a contact with Mr.Kotla