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MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Alexa Potashnik has become close friends with Hazim Ismail and is helping raise awareness to his situation in the hopes that he won't have to leave Canada and can continue to study here in Winnipeg. Hazim Ismail is an international student at the University of Winnipeg who is originally from Malaysia. He has a refugee protection hearing on April 5 he says hes scared of being sent back home where homophobia is rampant and gay people are punished. 160404 - Monday, April 04, 2016
