Trudeau says the United Nations High Commission on Refugees made a request of Canada that it take Alqunun as a refugee and Canada accepted. Rahaf temporarily suspended her #Twitter account because she has been receiving some very nasty, very real death threats. Using Twitter, Alqunun documented the standoff in real time, garnering tens of thousands of followers. The country has signed on to international human rights treaties that bar it from deporting people to places where they are at serious risk of harm. However, in 2015 authorities deported around 100 Uighur Muslims back to China, sparking a backlash from human rights groups and the United States.

Source: National Post January 11, 2019 15:51 UTC