Pressure mounts to repatriate Canadian citizen (Abdelrazik)

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Source: Globe and Mail

Human-rights groups, opposition MPs demand Harper government bring Abdelrazik home
PAUL KORING AND CAMPBELL CLARK
May 3, 2008

Human-rights groups and opposition MPs demanded yesterday that the Harper government repatriate Abousfian Abdelrazik, the Canadian labelled an al-Qaeda threat but now sheltered in the "temporary safe haven" of the Canadian embassy in Khartoum.

Bring him home and charge him in Canada if he is a terrorist, the Harper government was told ...

Roch Tassé, co-ordinator of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, which represents more than a dozen rights groups across Canada, said Mr. Abdelrazik's plight - left in a foreign prison and then involuntary exile for nearly five years by successive Canadian governments that denied him a passport - echoes that of Maher Arar, the Canadian falsely fingered by the RCMP as a terrorism suspect and later shipped by the United States to Syria where he was tortured in prison ...

Mr. Abdelrazik also claims to have been beaten and abused while in prison in Sudan, an incarceration that secret Canadian documents obtained by The Globe and Mail acknowledge was "at our request." ...

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