GRAND FALLS, N.B. — About 100 people are expected to take part in a rally in New Brunswick tomorrow for a farmer who has been imprisoned in Lebanon for eight months.

Harmien Dionne, the sister of potato farmer Henk Tepper, says family and community members will walk down Broadway Boulevard in Grand Falls at 1 p.m.

Dionne says the town has donated a Christmas tree that will be set up in the town and decorated in yellow ribbons and potato bags.

Tepper was detained in Beirut under an international arrest warrant over allegations that potatoes he exported to Algeria in 2007 were rotten and he forged trade documents.

Dionne says she hopes the rally will put pressure on the Canadian government to bring her brother home for the holidays.

Dionne recently spent two weeks in Beirut with her brother and she says he's lost about nine kilograms and is kept in small cell with no natural light.