The Federal Court of Canada on Thursday ordered the federal government to allow the return of a Montreal man stranded in Sudan for six years as an al-Qaeda suspect, ruling his charter rights have been breached.
Abousfian Abdelrazik, 47, was arrested and detained while visiting his mother in Sudan in 2003 and for the last year has been living in the Canadian Embassy in Khartoum.
Court orders Ottawa to let Abdelrazik return to Canada
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Ottawa traps man in 'Kafkaesque nightmare' in Sudan, MPs say
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Once a terror suspect, Montrealer has a ticket home home but no passport.Former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler and other opposition MPs joined forces on Tuesday to plead the case of Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Montrealer who has a ticket to fly home on Friday but remains in limbo at Canada's embassy in Sudan.
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