He said that “the opposition Russians who are asking for refuge in the United States, now everything is bad and gets worse every day,” because the US presidential administration Donald Trump tightened migration policies and Russians who “escaped from Putin's prisons” ended up in American migration prisons, from where people are sometimes “simply deported.”
Yashin gave an example with the opposition Leonid Melekhin, who was deported from the United States to Russia, after which he was “immediately arrested” for supporting the now deceased oppositionist Alexei Navalny.
“Systematically build a dialogue on this topic with the US authorities, no one is managed by anyone – there is just a deaf wall of silence. [К Карни] The essence of our request is that Canada showed humanism and began to accept anti -war Russians who are sent from the United States by informing the White House about such readiness, ”the oppositionist wrote.
According to him, the Russians who left the Russian Federation due to political persecution and for other reasons (including because of anti-war views) will be able to find justice and refuge in Canada.
A letter signed by three oppositionists and published in the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail also contains a request to create a special group for interaction with the Russians opposition to Moscow, fearing deportation in the Russian Federation.
Context
The President of the Russian America for Democracy in Russia (helps Russian citizens in immigration prisons) Dmitry Valuev and founder of Gulagu.net Vladimir Osechkin reported on deporting flights from the USA to Russia in the summer of 2025.
The human rights activist said that the deported – the Russians who found themselves in the US immigration prisons lost the courts about the shelter or chose a self -deportation (returning to the Russian Federation without waiting for the court).
