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Ottawa holds key to Canadian leaving Sudan, trial told – Federal government accused of ‘procrastination, evasiveness, obfuscation and general bad faith’ – By Joanna Smith
May 11, 2009 – 12:42 pm | No Comment
Ottawa holds key to Canadian leaving Sudan, trial told – Federal government accused of ‘procrastination, evasiveness, obfuscation and general bad faith’ – By Joanna Smith

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 …

EDITORIAL from The Globe and Mail: Cause for all Canadian citizens to worry
April 29, 2009 – 1:36 pm | No Comment
EDITORIAL from The Globe and Mail: Cause for all Canadian citizens to worry

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 …

Document outlines Ottawa’s case for leaving man in Sudan – Abousfian Abdelrazik
April 12, 2009 – 12:31 pm | One Comment
Document outlines Ottawa’s case for leaving man in Sudan – Abousfian Abdelrazik

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 …

Toronto Star Editorial – Surreal security case
April 7, 2009 – 4:30 am | No Comment
Toronto Star Editorial – Surreal security case

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 …

Bring Abdelrazik home
April 6, 2009 – 2:46 pm | No Comment
Bring Abdelrazik home

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 …

Canada denies passport to blacklisted citizen
April 3, 2009 – 2:02 pm | One Comment
Canada denies passport to blacklisted citizen

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 …

Commentary: Stranded and abandoned in Sudan, By IRWIN COTLER
April 3, 2009 – 12:00 am | No Comment
Commentary: Stranded and abandoned in Sudan, By IRWIN COTLER

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 …

CAIR-CAN Op-Ed: Every Canadian must be afforded due legal process
March 25, 2009 – 7:55 am | No Comment
CAIR-CAN Op-Ed: Every Canadian must be afforded due legal process

By Kashif Ahmed, Special to the StarPhoenix
March 25, 2009
Following is the viewpoint of the writer, a law student in Saskatoon and a national board member of the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Due process is a …

U.S. Owes an Apology for Attack on Al-Shifa
August 20, 1999 – 5:53 pm | No Comment
U.S. Owes an Apology for Attack on Al-Shifa

By Faisal Kutty – A couple of days ago I was reviewing different news reports dealing with the U.S. bombing of the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum one year ago today. I was shocked with …