Zahra Kamalfar is an Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

ian refugee living in Canada

Canada

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. She was originally from the Muslim

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 Dervish

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 sect and her husband was executed in Iranian custody. After his death, she fled the country with her son Davood and daughter Ana. From Turkey

Turkey

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, they fled into Russia

Russia

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. From Russia, the family planned to go to Germany

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 and then seek political asylum in Canada

Canada

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. When Kamalfar went to Germany

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, the German authorities sent her back to Russia. Russia planned to deport her back to Iran

Iran

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 but they did not. Instead she lived in the Sheremetyevo Airport for ten months, and finally went to Canada

Canada

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 where she has been residing since March 15, 2007.

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