MONTREAL, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- The only Canadian citizen accused of terrorist ties by the United States and publicly cleared by his own government, is trying to get off an international list.
Abousfian Abdelrazik of Montreal is the only Canadian on the U.N. Security Council terrorist list, The Globe and Mail of Toronto reported. His previous effort to get removed from the list was unsuccessful, apparently because of a U.S. veto.
Abdelrazik appealed this week to Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge recently named ombudswoman to the Security Council committee dealing with the blacklist. The appeal is expected to take months.
While the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian intelligence agency have both cleared him, the government has frozen his assets. He is also on an international no-fly list.
Abdelrazik denies terrorist ties. He said the U.S. claims are based on faulty information obtained through torture.
In 2009, a Canadian judge ordered the government to allow Abdelrazik to return from the Sudan, where he had been stuck for six years. Justice Russell Zinn compared Abdelrazik to Joseph K in Franz Kafka's the trial who "for reasons, never revealed to him or the reader, is arrested and prosecuted for an unspecified crime."
