Abousfian Abdelrazik ended six years in exile in Sudan, where he faced torture at the hands of Sudanese authorities, several thwarted attempts to return and spent over a year stranded at the Canadian embassy in Khartoum. Mr. Abdelrazik was born in Sudan but fled the country in 1990. He received refugee status in Canada in…
Supporters of Abousfian Abdelrazik — a Canadian citizen blacklisted as a terrorist and stranded in Sudan — accused the federal Conservative government of racism for refusing to issue him an emergency passport to fly home to Montreal. Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon considers Abdelrazik a national security threat. The refusal represents a reversal of the government’s…
A judge has found that an RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) agent did not entrap a youth who has been convicted of a terrorism-related charge – paving the way for the young man’s sentencing. In a 53-page decision released in Brampton, ON, Justice John Sproat of the Ontario Superior Court ruled that Mubin Shaikh did…
The Harper government has imposed another condition on Abousfian Abdelrazik – the only Canadian citizen labeled an al-Qaeda operative by Washington – before it will allow him to return home. Abdelrazik must present a fully-paid-for ticket home before “Passport Canada will issue an emergency passport,” the government said in a Dec. 23 letter to his…
An RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) informant who helped thwart a domestic terrorist plot said that he feels guilty about the role he played in recruiting four youths to the group. Mubin Shaikh told a Brampton, ON, court he knew the teens would get caught up in the terrorism investigation as a result. Shaikh conceded…
