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| Canadian released from US prison stuck outside Canada, lawyer says |
| By Agence France-Presse |
| Published: 12/01/2003 |
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A Canadian citizen, who was released from a US prison in Guantanamo Bay recently, has been refused assistance and the ability to return to Canada, a lawyer for his family said. Abdulrahman Khadr, who had been held in Cuba since March, was released and returned to Afghanistan, where he had been arrested some two years ago as a suspected al-Qaeda fighter. A spokesman for Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs said returning to Afghanistan was Khadr's choice. "He chose (to go to Afghanistan). ... That's our understanding," said spokesman Reynald Doiron. But Khadr's lawyer, Rocco Galati, told reporters last Tuesday that his client has been repeatedly denied assistance to return to Canada. Galati accused the government of lying saying the Canadians were "as guilty as the Americans of this blatant racist treatment of people against whom they have no evidence and they detain without trial or process. |
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