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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9964

28 August 2009
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
Amnesty calls on Ottawa to lift visa requirement for Czechs

Brussels, 27/08/2009 (Agence Europe) - Amnesty International (AI) has called on Canada to waive the obligation for citizens of the Czech Republic to hold a tourist visa, as it considers the visa requirement is in breach of human rights. The NGO is also highly critical of a similar decision to impose visa requirements on Mexican nationals. On 24 August, therefore, AI sent a letter along these lines to the Canadian minister for citizenship, immigration and multi-culturalism, Jason Kenney. In...