Abousfian Abdelrazik's national speaking tour

  • Monday, October 5, 2009 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm
The International Speakers Series and The Queen's University Law Students Society are pleased to present jointly its first guest speaker for this year: Mr. Abousfian Abdelrazik.

WHEN: Monday, October 5th, 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: Room 001, Macdonald Hall, Queen's University

FOOD: A light lunch will be served.
You may have read about Mr. Abdelrazik in the newspapers over the past year. He is a Canadian citizen who was initially accused of having ties to al-Qaeda, but was subsequently cleared in investigations by the Sudanese government, CSIS and the RCMP. For a prolonged period he was not able to return to Canada, since he remained on the United Nations terrorist "no-fly" list. There is evidence that he was abused by his interrogators in the Sudan. For a year he lived in the Canadian embassy in Khartoum, as the Canadian government continually altered the conditions on which he would be allowed to return home. Recently, a Federal Court held that the government had violated his rights and acted in bad faith, and ordered the government to allow him to return home.

Mr. Abelrazik's story presents many topical issues, involving human rights, responses to allegations of terrorism, possible complicity in torture and the duty of the Canadian government to protect Canadians abroad.

Gerard Kennedy
Darryl Robinson

Arthur Cockfield
Associate Professor
Queen's University Faculty of Law

The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) is also a sponsor of Abousfian Abdelrazik's national speaking tour, see: http://www.peoplescommission.org/en/abdelrazik/events.php