‘He’s our father, we need him’ – Canadian stranded by CSIS terror allegations should return a free man or be tried here, stepdaughter says
By TU THANH HA and OMAR EL AKKAD
MONTREAL and OTTAWA, CANADA — The stepdaughter of a Montreal man who has been trapped in his native Sudan for years because of terrorism suspicions is challenging the Canadian authorities to put him on trial here.
“If they have anything against him, let them show it and give him a fair trial,” Wafa Sahnine said of her stepfather, Abousfian Abdelrazik. “But don’t leave him there, far from his family, alone in poverty, without money, without health care, without work. Let him come back. He’s our father, we need him. It’s been too long we’ve been living alone.”
Mr. Abdelrazik, a Canadian citizen facing no criminal charges, has been living off a monthly $100 allowance from the Canadian embassy in Khartoum and has not been given a new passport.
Canadian Security Intelligence Service secret documents seen by The Globe and Mail say that Sudan at one point detained Mr. Abdelrazik “at our request.”
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