Canadian family urges Ottawa to grant refugee status to U.S. deportee to Bangladesh who faces execution for his role in 1975 coup. With his remaining time possibly measured in hours, friends and family of a former Bangladeshi diplomat and military officer are appealing to Ottawa to grant him asylum to save his life. U.S. authorities are set to deport Mohiuddin Ahmed as early as Thursday, sending him back to Dhaka where he has been sentenced, in absentia, to death for his role in a 1975 coup. He has steadfastly maintained his innocence, saying that as a military officer with the rank of major at the time, he was merely following orders to form a roadblock in front of the home of the president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was slain along with members of his family, including his wife and 10-year old son, in a dawn attack on his Dhaka villa by more than 100 soldiers. The 1998 convictions of Ahmed and 14 other military officials were the work of a vengeful government and a sham, his family says. They say Ahmed sought asylum in the United States rather than return to Bangladesh, a country where he believed he could not find justice. Ahmed's last chance to remain in the U.S. ended late last week when San Francisco's 9th Circuit Court refused to hear his case again. "I stand by him and I will stand with him until his last breath," his weeping wife, Hena Mohiuddin, said in an interview here. Source: http://www.thestar.com/News/article/218689 DO YOU THINK HE SHOULD GET asylum in CANADA?
hmm it depends on what the specific allegations are. If it was using violence against people then he should face the charges, but if it was just for participating in the process then asylum may be the right thing to do.