Mohamed Fahmy Says Tory Law Made Him Fear Losing Canadian #Citizenship

Not surprising, given his circumstances and how C-24 was drafted:

As he languished in an Egyptian prison, Mohamed Fahmy feared he might lose his Canadian citizenship under a controversial and recently enacted law, the since-freed journalist said Monday.

While behind bars, Fahmy read the former Conservative government’s new law, which allows for the revocation of citizenship of someone convicted of terrorism, treason or espionage.

“It hit right home with me because it surfaced during my imprisonment, and I was a candidate,” Fahmy said in an interview Monday prior to a speaking engagement at Carleton University in Ottawa.

“I panicked and I asked the ambassador to bring me the literature – the bill – and I read it in prison. I was worried.”

Fahmy, 41, was freed in September after spending more than 400 days behind bars on terrorism charges in Egypt after a court case that was the subject of broad international criticism.

Fahmy also said he will soon present the Liberal government with a proposed charter of rights on how to deal with citizens imprisoned abroad. He’s working on it with Amnesty International and his lawyers.

The new charter stresses something that didn’t happen in his case – direct leader-to-leader intervention to put pressure on a foreign government to force a Canadian prisoner’s release.

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