December 10, 2010: Blacklisted, report by the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR).

October 2010: View a report by the BC Civil Liberties Association, "The U.N. Security Council's 1267 Regime and the Rule of Law in Canada"

September 30, 2010: European Court of Justice decision, Kadi wins against the 1267 list.

August 30: Federal Court Decision allowing Abdelrazik to sue Minister of Foreign Affairs Lawrence Cannon.

Lawyers for Abousfian Abdelrazik filed a constitutional challenge to the 1267 regime in Federal Court. The application seeks to strike down the Al Qaeda and Taliban regulations, which implement the 1267 regime in Canada.

Read the document here.

Abdelrazik filed a lawsuit against the Attorney General of Canada and Minister of Foreign Affairs Lawrence Cannon.

Read Statement of Claim here.

On June 4th, the Federal Court ordered the Federal government to "issue (Abousfian Abdelrazik) an emergency passport in order that he may return to and enter Canada" and to "arrange transportation for (Mr. Abdelrazik) from Khartoum to Montreal, Canada such that he arrives in Canada no later than 30 days from the date hereof."

Read full decision here.
Read choice quotes here.

With the assistance of Yavar Hameed, as well as the Nathanson Centre at the Osgoode Hall Law School, Sean Rehaag has created a web page that archives the court documents in the litigation between Abdelrazik and the Canadian government.

Go to the archive here.

The following documents are extracts from documents pertaining to Abousfian Abdelrazik obtained from the Canadian government under the Privacy Act.

• Memos discussing a "permanent solution" to AbouSoufian Abdelrazik in March and April 2006

• Document sent from the government of Sudan to Canadian Embassy letting them know that they have nothing against Mr. Abdelrazik

  "Thus, what have been arisen around the suspect was merely doubts on his general shape, beard, prayer's mark on his forhead [...] Based upon our investigations, we did not find any evidence that allow condemning him or punishing him."

  
  

• Department of Foreign Affairs internal memo concerning the attempts of Mr. Abdelrazik's wife to bring him back to Canada, 2004
  

  "So, she could get a private plane, there is very little we could do to stop him from entering Canada. He would need an EP and I guess this could be refused but on what ground?"

  
  

• Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs "talking points" document to prepare officials to talk publicly about the case of Abdelrazik.

  "Sudanese authorities readily admit that they have no charges pending against him but are holding him at our request"

  "To our knowledge, there are no charges pending against him in Sudan or in Canada. It is the basic priniciple of Canadian society that all people have the 'right not to be arbitrarily detained or imprisoned'."

  "[From government agents] Canada will not issue Mr. Abdelrazik a passport"

The following is the complete 1500+ pages of the documents obtained under the Privacy Act. The file is very big (169 MB) and it is recommended that you download the ZIP compressed version. You can download 7-zip, a free utilty to uncompress the file here.

• Full set of documents obtained under the Privacy Act - ZIP compressed version (52 MB)
  
  
• Full set of documents obtained under the Privacy Act - PDF version (169 MB)