CSIS agents were sent to Sudan to interrogate him while diplomats ignored abuse at prison, documents suggest PAUL KORING From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Abousfian Abdelrazik, fingered as an al-Qaeda operative but currently sheltering in the "temporary safe haven" of Canada's Khartoum embassy, says Canadian diplomats knew he was being tortured in grim Sudanese prisons but did nothing. In a telephone interview Monday, Mr. Abdelrazik said he told a Canadian diplomat he was being repeatedly beaten by Sudanese interrogators in 2004 or 2005. "He didn't care," Mr. Abdelrazik said. Mr. Abdelrazik, who was to submit a sworn affidavit about his torture in Sudan to Federal Court in Ottawa Monday, confirmed all of the details in the draft document, including that he was interrogated by CSIS agents while in a Sudanese jail. However, the...
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