Trinidad deports members of Canada-based Jewish sect

Nine members of a Canadian-based ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect, Lev Tahor, have been deported to Canada.



The group was sent back yesterday less than 48 hours after a High Court in Trinidad dismissed an application for a habeas corpus writ to have them released from detention.



Attorney General Anand Ramlogan confirmed that the members of the group, which included children, were removed from a hotel near the Piarco International Airport and placed on a plane to Canada.



He says the Trinidad and Tobago government could not breach an order from a competent court in Canada and that failure to send the members back to Quebec could have resulted in a diplomatic row between the two countries.



Romlogan says Trinidad and Tobago could not turn its back to the Court ruling regarding the child protection order which instructed that the children would have been handed over to child protection agencies in Canada.



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