File:KG-STATEMENT.pdf

STATEMENT

Kevin Mugur Galalae seeks political asylum

Kevin Mugur Galalae has requested political asylum and consular protection yesterday, 12 July 2011, from the embassies of Costa Rica and Switzerland. The Government of Canada has coopted medical staff at Hotel Dieu Hospital in Kingston, Ontario, to release a report on Kevin’s 72-hour psychiatric assessment from May 15-18, when he was held against his will, that is a complete fabrication and that foreshadows the Government of Canada’s intention to re-arrest Kevin and to hold him against his will and without legal protection in order to silence his human rights activism. Given that the report was held back for nearly two months, that it stands in gross contrast with two independent psychological assessments, that no tests were performed in the hospital to justify the report’s conclusions and that it was released two days ago and thus just in time for a reassessment of Kevin’s bail conditions, it is clear that the Government of Canada intends retaliatory actions against Kevin for his recent nomination for the Confucius Peace Prize and for his ongoing publications that expose gross violations of human rights throughout the western world.