Refugee was was imprisoned in Sudan shares despair [Video]

Abousfian Abdelrazik told a court Wednesday about the roller-coaster of emotions he experienced during the tense days of early 2009 when he awaited the green light to return to Canada from Sudan.

The Sudanese-born Abdelrazik settled in Montreal as a refugee and became a Canadian citizen in 1995.

During a 2003 visit to his native country to see his ailing mother, he was arrested, imprisoned and questioned about suspected extremist connections.

Abdelrazik, who denies involvement in terrorism, says he was tortured by Sudanese authorities during two periods of detention by the country’s intelligence agency.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service sent questions to be put to Abdelrazik by Sudanese officials. Officers from the Canadian spy service then showed up in person to interrogate him over two days in late October 2003.

Abdelrazik is suing the Canadian government, claiming officials arranged for his arbitrary imprisonment, encouraged his detention by Sudanese authorities and …