Ottawa Will Bring Sudanese Man Home

June 19, 2009 - Canwest News Service
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After weeks of pressure by his supporters, the federal government said Thursday it would comply with a court order to bring Abousfian Abdelrazik back to Canada.

Newly declassified documents revealed that the Montreal man, stranded at the Canadian Embassy in Sudan for more than a year, was placed on a United Nations no-fly list at the request of the U.S. government.

A scathing Federal Court ruling ordered the Conservative government on June 4 to repatriate Abdelrazik, a Sudanese-born Canadian citizen, within 30 days, and it gave them until Friday to come up with a travel plan for his return.

Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon abruptly denied Abdelrazik's scheduled return on April 3, citing unspecified national security reasons. The RCMP and Canada's spy agency, CSIS, have no information linking him to criminal activity, but Abdelrazik was placed on a United Nations no-fly list.

The UN's 1267 listing subjects listed people to a global asset freeze, and also prohibits anyone inside or outside Canada from providing funds to someone on the list.

That appears to mean Abdelrazik supporters who raised money for him are also in violation of a UN resolution that bans helping anyone with an al-Qaida or Taliban link.