Fahmy pushes feds for law to protect Canadians imprisoned abroad

Mohamed Fahmy, the dual Egyptian-Canadian former Al Jazeera journalist who was wrongfully incarcerated and spent more than a year in Cairo's Scorpion Prison, is lobbying the Trudeau government to enshrine in law protection for Canadian citizens imprisoned or detained abroad because it’s still discretionary.

Mohamed Fahmy, pictured in Ottawa: ‘The hardest part was being an innocent man in prison and knowing that you’re a pawn between two countries, Egypt and Qatar.’ The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY ABBAS RANA, KATE MALLOY

November 28, 2016

OTTAWA—Mohamed Fahmy, the dual Egyptian-Canadian former Al Jazeera journalist whose wrongful incarceration in Cairo’s notorious Scorpion Prison attracted international attention last year, says the Canadian government should enshrine in law protection for Canadian citizens imprisoned or detaine...

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