(Apr 19, 2011, Winnipeg)--Father has helped sponsor hundreds of refugees. A Winnipeg man who has helped rescue hundreds of people from violence in Ethiopia fears he can't save his own son, who was jailed there shortly after arriving from Canada two weeks ago.
"I'm very worried," Juhar Hargaaya said Monday. His 26-year-old son, Fewaz, left their home in Transcona to visit family in Ethiopia, but was arrested for carrying walkie-talkies and jailed at Dire Dawa in the notorious Ethiopian prison system.
"It's very bad," said his father, who arrived in Canada as a refugee in 1990. Hargaaya, a forklift driver who works seven days a week with a part-time job on weekends, has helped to sponsor hundreds of refugees from Ethiopia over the last 20 years, said Tom Denton at Hospitality House.
Sponsorship documents from the Winnipeg refugee ministry were found among Fewaz's things after he was arrested in Ethiopia. The forms, critical of the Ethiopian government's treatment of its people, were for four Ethiopians who'd fled to neighbouring Djibouti, waiting to come to Canada. Read more from Winnipeg free press »
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| Fewaz Hargaaya |
"It's very bad," said his father, who arrived in Canada as a refugee in 1990. Hargaaya, a forklift driver who works seven days a week with a part-time job on weekends, has helped to sponsor hundreds of refugees from Ethiopia over the last 20 years, said Tom Denton at Hospitality House.
Sponsorship documents from the Winnipeg refugee ministry were found among Fewaz's things after he was arrested in Ethiopia. The forms, critical of the Ethiopian government's treatment of its people, were for four Ethiopians who'd fled to neighbouring Djibouti, waiting to come to Canada. Read more from Winnipeg free press »
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