Abdelrazik’s suit seeks 24 million Canadian dollars (22 million US) from Ottawa alleging the government’s involvement in his detention and torture, and three million dollars (2.76 million US) from Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon for “misfeasance in public office.”
It claims the foreign minister “deliberately and flagrantly violated (Abdelrazik’s) constitutional right to enter Canada, and his legal right to procedural fairness and natural justice, by refusing to issue an emergency passport.”
Abdelrazik’s lawyer Paul Champ told AFP:
“Canadian officials (had) directly asked a foreign government — and that’s a foreign government with a record of torture — to detain a Canadian citizen.”“He was snatched by the Sudanese secret police and his family didn’t know where he was and formally the Canadian government was telling his family they didn’t know where he was.
“At same time, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service agents were in Khartoum interrogating him in Sudanese custody,” he said. “That’s pretty disgusting.”
Filed under: Accountability, Canada, Detention, Rendition, Torture
