September 16, 2008 News

Bring Abdelrazik home

by Ion Etxebarria

Street performers denounced the government’s refusal to allow Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik re-entry into Canada last Friday.

Abdelrazik was arrested in 2002 and held in a Sudanese prison for several months at the request of the Canadian government under the suspicion that he was a member of al-Qaeda.
Four years later Abdelrazik was released without charge, but was not able to fly back to Canada—he was still on the American government’s ‘No Fly List,’ which is respected internationally.

The performers reenacted torture techniques and denounced Canadian complicity in Abdelrazik’s torture. Demonstrators also collected donations to help pay for Abdelrazik’s ticket back home.