Prominent legal scholar detained at Canadian border while on his way to a conference on Palestine

A prominent academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians. 

Richard Falk, a retired Princeton University professor who was a special rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, was on his way to Ottawa to speak at the Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility on Friday and Saturday. 

Dubbed a “people’s tribunal,” the event was organized as a forum to analyze and document “Canada’s complicity in the genocide and dispossession of Palestinians, including over the last two years in Gaza,” says a news release from its organizers.