October 17, 2008

Amnesty likens Canadian held in Ethiopia(Guantanamo) to Khadr case

OTTAWA – The case of a Canadian citizen who has been held in an Ethiopian jail for almost two years – without trial or access to a lawyer – while other foreign prisoners were released is “hauntingly reminiscent” of Omar Khadr, says Alex Neve, secretary general of Amnesty International Canada.

Bashir Makhtal, a former Toronto resident in his 40s, was fleeing from fighting in Somalia when he and dozens of other foreign nationals were arrested crossing into Kenya in late 2006. Makhtal was deported to Ethiopia, where he was born, though he has been a Canadian citizen since 1994.

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