Articles tagged with: Abousfian Abdelrazik
Editorial from The Globe and Mail
Abousfian Abdelrazik is a Canadian citizen who is subject to a United Nations blacklist that would do Franz Kafka proud. He is a free man living in a …
By Paul Koring
A constitutional challenge contends the Canadian government can’t strip a citizen of his rights, seize his assets and make it a crime to employ him just because the UN Security …
By Matthew Behrens
Viewers tuning in to Wednesday evening’s rabble.ca videocast from Montreal could be forgiven for thinking they had stumbled across a surreal version of the infamous PBS fund drives that annually dominate American …
By Gerald Caplan
For Montrealer Abousfian Abdelrazik, the nightmare continues. Maybe readers will have forgotten his name already. I’ve written about his ordeal several times and a small dedicated group of his fellow …
By Reem Bahdi
Once again, we must question whether Canadian officials facilitated the overseas detention and torture of Arab Muslim men.
Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Canadian citizen, was arrested in Sudan in 2003 while visiting his ailing mother. …
By Joanna Smith, Ottawa Bureau
OTTAWA – There is nothing to stop the federal government from bringing a Canadian man stranded in Sudan home tomorrow if they wanted to, his lawyers argued in Federal Court yesterday.
“We …
By PAUL KORING
May 7, 2009
Canada is free to bring Abousfian Abdelrazik home and doesn’t need to ask for permission, the UN official overseeing the blacklist of alleged al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects said yesterday.
“Whether it is …
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
April 29, 2009 at 2:00 AM EDT
His name is Abousfian Abdelrazik, but it could as easily be Joseph Smith, a Canadian Everyman. He is a citizen denied the right to return …
Bring Abousfian Abdelrazik Home!
Canadian Detained and Tortured with Canadian Complicity Still Stranded
in Sudan
Join the Toronto “Camp Abdelrazik,” a day-long vigil at the offices of
Passport Canada
74 Victoria Street (just north of Adelaide, south of Queen)
Monday, May …
Jessica Murphy
THE CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL-A federal government document involving the case of a Canadian man trapped in Sudan states Canada would violate its international obligations by allowing him to return home – an argument his lawyers …
Whatever it is about Abousfian Abdelrazik that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government seems to want to sweep under the table, it is past time that Parliament took a hard, close look at the case.
Abdelrazik is …
By Kris Kotarski, For The Calgary Herald
The government of Canada is afraid that when he returns home, Abousfian Abdelrazik will talk.
That is the only possible reason why a Canadian citizen who has been publicly cleared …
PAUL KORING
Globe and Mail Update
April 3, 2009 at 2:02 PM EDT
WASHINGTON — The Conservative government reversed itself today and denied an emergency passport to Abousfian Abdelrazik, preventing the Canadian citizen – blacklisted as a terrorist …
By IRWIN COTLER
Globe and Mail
April 3, 2009 at 12:00 AM EDT
It has been nearly six years since Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Sudanese Canadian, was jailed while visiting his ailing mother in Khartoum. It has been nearly …
