Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board has ordered the deportation of Seyed Salman Samani, the former deputy interior minister of Iran, IranWire reports.
He arrived in Canada on a visitor visa obtained in Türkiye. However, Canadian authorities questioned him about his past role in the Iranian government upon his arrival.
Samani served as the deputy interior minister of Iran from 2016 to 2021.
Iranian police and security forces were mobilized to suppress demonstrations that erupted in November 2019 after a sudden rise in fuel prices.
At his hearing, Samani told Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) that he was so "troubled" by the events at the time that he decided to leave the government.
He explained that he remained on the job until August 2021 because he wanted to help in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ex-official insisted he had never been involved in human rights abuses and was not aware that the Islamic Republic was engaged in arbitrary arrests, torture, and killings.
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