Found this case summary in a legal database…
Applicant was a citizen of China. She had been required to enforce the one-child policy in the family planning clinic in which she worked. She was required to perform abortions. Her request to be excused from this work was refused, and she was threatened with imprisonment. After releasing a woman who had escaped and been apprehended, she was arrested, detained for 3 months, interrogated, and demoted. She escaped before disciplinary proceedings were taken. The Convention Refugee Determination Division found that applicant had a well-founded fear…
The decision doesn’t appear to be posted online. Here’s the case citation if you want to dig it up: Canada (Minister of Citizenship & Immigration) v. Lin, 1995 CarswellNat 1224.
I don’t know how it did not occur to me that there would medical professionals who are victims of this policy as well. I clearly need to spend more time researching this issue.
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