WORLD BRIEFING / CANADA
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A Canadian federal court judge ordered the conditional release of a Syrian terrorism suspect who has spent more than seven years in custody without being formally charged.
Justice Richard Mosley said in a written statement that the continued detention of Hassan Almrei could no longer be justified.
Almrei, 34, was arrested in October 2001 and accused of having connections to former Toronto resident Nabil Marabh. U.S. officials had said Marabh had links to the Sept. 11 attacks. However, he was convicted in 2002 of an immigration violation and deported from the U.S. to Syria.
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