{"id":23798,"date":"2014-08-27T09:33:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T01:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=23798"},"modified":"2014-08-27T09:33:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T01:33:38","slug":"surrey-family-fears-for-life-of-osman-fernando-de-leon-reyes-if-deported-to-guatemala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/27\/surrey-family-fears-for-life-of-osman-fernando-de-leon-reyes-if-deported-to-guatemala\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey family fears for life of Osman Fernando de Le\u00f3n Reyes if deported to Guatemala"},"content":{"rendered":"

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VANCOUVER\u00a0— Osman Fernando de Le\u00f3n Reyes, a\u00a029-year old Guatemalan man, is facing deportation from Surrey next week.\u00a0His lawyer is seeking a judicial stay order from the Federal Court of\u00a0Canada to urgently stop his deportation so that Mr. Reyes is not separated\u00a0from his family and not deported back to imminent danger in Guatemala.<\/p>\n

Mr. Reyes has two Canadian-born children, Diahanara aged eight and Dilan\u00a0aged three. His wife, Heidy Stephany Pinto Zepeda, is a permanent resident\u00a0and works in the cleaning industry. She is extremely distraught about the\u00a0separation the family will face as a result of his pending deportation. \u201cI\u00a0love my husband, I am so sad and disappointed that Canada is taking away\u00a0my husband from my life and my kids lives. He is a good man and a lovely\u00a0father, and I fear for his life if he is deported back to Guatemala,\u201d says\u00a0Heidy Stephany Pinto Zepeda.<\/p>\n

Mr. Reyes is currently living with mental health issues in relation to the\u00a0traumas he has experienced. According to Natalie Blair, a registered nurse\u00a0who has worked with him, \u201cWith the threat of deportation looming, his\u00a0health is being compromised and is at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Reyes first came to Canada to seek asylum in 2007 after he was\u00a0kidnapped in Guatemala as a result of his mother\u2019s work in the federal\u00a0government\u2019s National Audit Office.<\/p>\n

Mr. Reyes\u2019s kidnapping is well-documented and verified, including a\u00a0medical report confirming that he was severely beaten during the\u00a0kidnapping with trauma to his left rib cage, a fractured clavicle on his\u00a0right side and bruises all over his body and face. A police report also\u00a0confirms that the family had to pay a substantial ransom for his release. \u00a0Several years later, Mr. Reyes\u2019s best friend was murdered. The family\u00a0moved within Guatemala to stay safe until they managed to flee to Canada\u00a0at separate times.<\/p>\n

Miriam Reyes Barreira, Mr. Reye\u2019s 54-year old mother, worked for more than\u00a0fifteen years on corruption cases as one of the federal government\u2019s head\u00a0accountants and audit officers. After revealing corruption and diversion\u00a0of funds by a number of municipal mayors, she survived three assassination\u00a0attempts on her life. Ms. Barreira also escaped to Canada in 2013, where\u00a0her case to remain in Canada is pending.<\/p>\n

The entire family is desperately seeking justice and urging the Canadian\u00a0government to allow Mr. Reyes to remain in Canada permanently with his\u00a0family where he can live without fear.<\/p>\n

Official press release issued 25 August 2014<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VANCOUVER\u00a0— Osman Fernando de Le\u00f3n Reyes, a\u00a029-year old Guatemalan man, is facing deportation from Surrey next week.\u00a0His lawyer is seeking …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-immigration","mauthors-press-release-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}