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Abousfian Abdelrazik

BRING ABOUSFIAN ABDELRAZIK BACK TO CANADA!

On Friday, 12 September at 12 noon there will be a rally in Ottawa at the Human Rights Monument (Elgin at Lisgar) to demand justice for Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Canadian citizen, who is currently in limbo in the Canadian Embassy in Sudan. The Canadian government is obstructing every effort to bring him home. His lawyer, Yavar Hameed, needs public support in his effort to bring Abousfian back.

Please join the rally. Speakers (to be announced) will indicate the extent to which the government is repeating the same shameful behaviour as in the Mahar Arar case!

More information at http://www.nowar-paix.ca/abdelrazik.

Background

Abousfian Abdelrazik is a Montreal man whose name may take its place alongside Maher Arar, Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin in a growing list of victims of a Canadian version of ‘extraordinary rendition’.

Documents obtained under the Privacy Act seem to indicate that Mr. Abdelrazik, a Canadian citizen, was incarcerated in Sudan on the request of Canadian officials. While in prison in December 2003, he was interrogated by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), despite Canadian doubts about Sudan’s human rights record. Mr. Abdelrazik was held without charge and eventually released. Since his release in July 2006, he has been blocked from returning home to Montreal.

Serious and unanswered questions are raised about the role played by Canadian officials in the affair. Since the story became public, government statements have failed to clarify the situation. Mr. Abdelrazik was granted ‘temporary safe haven’ in the Canadian Embassy in Khartoum in late April 2008 but has since been denied access to his legal counsel and to journalists.

Mr. Abdelrazik’s family, based in Montreal, has not seen him for more than five years, when he left to visit his mother in Sudan. They remain hopeful that they will be reunited soon.

 

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Documents obtained from the government under the Privacy Act

The following documents are extracts from documents pertaining to Abousfian Abdelrazik obtained from the Canadian government under the Privacy Act.

The following is the complete 1500+ pages of the documents obtained under the Privacy Act. The file is very big (169 MB) and it is recommended that you download the ZIP compressed version. You can download 7-zip, a free utilty to uncompress the file here.

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