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Ottawa resident Naser Al Raas lost his appeal Monday and is facing a five-year term in Bahrain prison over the right to freedom of expression. “The court has upheld the sentence,” his fiancee, Zainab Ahmed, told the Sun from Bahrain Wednesday. “I’m very sad.” Al Raas could be arrested at any time. “He’s in hiding […]
MoreAn Ottawa man walked out of a courthouse in the Democratic Republic of Congo a free man Tuesday, only to be told the Canadian government was refusing to release his passport. “I was really shocked,” a frustrated Fabien Kalala Shambuyi told the Sun via telephone from the Congo Tuesday. But a few hours later, a […]
MoreAn Ottawa man’s release from prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo could be short-lived — he may be behind bars again in a matter of days. “He’s not coming home,” family friend Henriette Yakibonge told the Sun on Sunday. “He doesn’t have his passport, he doesn’t have any money. He’s afraid of what’s going […]
MoreAn Ottawa man abducted from a Bahrain airport in March and tortured underground for a month has been sentenced to five years in Bahrain prison, has days to turn himself in, and is begging the Canadian government to intervene. “I feel terrified,” said Naser Al Raas from Manama, Bahrain. “It means my death. I can’t […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2010/11/03/15950761.html#/news/ottawa/2010/11/03/pf-15948911.html In 1939, at the age of 15, Gerald Fry fled Germany for England. “Germany was not a place for Jews, and our family had a background of over 400 years,” the 86-year-old Ottawa resident said. He enlisted in the British army and ended up fighting the Nazis, serving from D-Day to VE-Day. […]
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