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Chinese police officer and wife denied residency in ‘crimes against humanity’ ruling

On Mar. 18, 2026, Federal Court Justice Shirzad Ahmed dismissed Li Li's judicial-review bid, upholding Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada's rejection of the couple's permanent-residency application based on reasonable grounds of complicity in crimes against humanity.
An IRCC officer denied the family's application in September 2024, citing the husband's roughly 30-year police career and supervisory role as supporting reasonable grounds that he was complicit in systematic torture and human rights violations in Hebei.
The husband told immigration officials he supervised up to 150 people and oversaw investigations, interrogations and detentions, while denying he ever "abused or mistreated suspects" and stating his role was to ensure interrogations followed the law.
Immigration rules provide that an inadmissible accompanying family member generally renders the applicant inadmissible, a provision that affected Li's 2016 bid to immigrate with her husband and their child.
Justice Ahmed emphasized the officer's analysis focused on the husband's specific role within China's Public Security Bureau in Hebei rather than nationwide operations, finding systematic torture in interrogations justified the decision.

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