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Toronto woman marooned in Kenya seeks court injunction to restore passport 


Sunday, July 19, 2009


Suaad Hagi Mohamud 
Photo Toronto Star


OTTAWA (CP) - The lawyer for a woman who was stripped of her Canadian passport and is marooned in Kenya will be in Federal Court on Monday morning seeking immediate government help.

Suaad Mohamud Haji has been unable to return to her Toronto home since mid-May after Kenyan airport officials said she didn't look like her four-year-old passport picture.

Despite having other pieces of Canadian photo ID and offering up her fingerprints, the 31-year-old mother was stripped of her passport by Canadian officials and charged with identity fraud by Kenyan police.

"Just like in Canada, if you misrepresent your identity, that's a criminal charge," her lawyer Raoul Boulakia told The Canadian Press on Sunday.

"So what the Canadian government told the Kenyan government is, 'This lady is not the lady in the passport. She is lying. This isn't her."'

Boulakia will file notice with Federal Court in Toronto on Monday morning seeking an emergency conference call with an Ottawa-based judge.

He wants Mohamud to be issued an emergency passport and flown home at government expense.

The situation is urgent because the Somali-born Mohamud has a court date this Friday in Kenya and could face deportation to her lawless native land.

The Federal Court application also seeks a declaration that the government "acted in bad faith by arbitrarily denying the applicant's citizenship, and by delaying resolution of confirming her citizenship."

Boulakia said the woman has a 12-year-old son, a job, and dozens of friends in Toronto who can vouch for her identity. He said he's seen many photos of Mohamud and her appearance has indeed been altered by a dramatic change in weight.

He wants to know why the federal government has not provided an answer on whether Mohamud's fingerprints match those she provided when she applied for Canadian citizenship.

An official with the Canadian Border Services Agency said Sunday she could not comment on the particulars of Mohamud's case due to privacy laws.

But Patrizia Giolti noted that finger prints are only requested on citizenship applications if there's some question of criminality.

"Fingerprints are then destroyed once a citizenship application is closed," Giolti said by email.

"Also fingerprints are not kept as a biometric or as a biodata, they are simply collected to run against criminal databases. So we would not be able to use fingerprints collected during a citizenship application to confirm identity."

Source: Canadian Press, July 19, 2009



       
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ghariibstranger @ 7/21/2009 9:02 AM EST
 MOMO519;

you stop the vialation against Allah and your wicked lies about the deen of Allah
Allah said [if you do not know ask the poeple with knowledge]come back to you deen
Allah is oft mercyfull to his slaves.
momo519 @ 7/21/2009 6:22 AM EST
 

Stop the violance against the Muslims.


ghariibstranger @ 7/21/2009 5:10 AM EST
 MOMO519

I see you do not believe in Jihad so be it and stay been the Suufi you are
atleast the Suufi's here are fighting but you are worst Suufi with no knowledge
but Allah is mercyfull to his slaves come back to your deen.
momo519 @ 7/20/2009 9:29 PM EST
 
Stranger,

You are stranger to Islam.

If only you could understand what Allah is saying here you would love to meet Allah. But you are of those with no knowledge.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that violance, death, and war against your fellow Mulsims is not a JIHAD.

You and your fellow murtads declared war against fellow Somalis led by Sheikh Sharif, an Islamic man who read the Ashahado.

And you have the guts to tell me that Allah will reward me to participate a war against fellow Somali Muslims!!!

How stup*d and arr*gant you are!!!



ghariibstranger @ 7/20/2009 7:27 PM EST
 MOMO519

You are the most wickeds person I have come across you are so sturban
you are deep in to your jaahil way of life,the life that's deep in a ocean
covered leyor upon leyor darkness upon darkness but know that Allah says
[ALLAH KNOWS THE FINEST MISTERY] if only you could understand what Allah is
saying here you would love to meet Allah. But you are of those with no knowledge.
nuun @ 7/20/2009 4:27 PM EST
 inta aan somali ka aqaan, beentooda, musuqmaasuqooda iyo iska daba wareegooda ayaa iigu filan inaan naagtaan ka shakiyo sheekadeeda.
100 kun oo somali ah oo passport reer galbeed wata ayaa maalin kasta safra oo soo dega. Marka kuwaas maxaa loo qaba waayey. Timir laf ayaa ku jirta.
case muqallasnimo oo la qarxiyey ayey u egtahay. waase arki doonnaa.
rako @ 7/20/2009 4:13 PM EST
 This is not a big deal guys there are many more issues
more important than one person with false passport.
Most of you who live now in the west the same or worst.
momo519 @ 7/20/2009 4:08 PM EST
 

Stranger,

These are the most despicable words I've heard from you so far.

"...Allah has giving you a better than this and that's is Jihad for his couse."

Jihad against your fellow muslims?

That is not Jihad.

That is murder and Allah will punish you for that.

You capture Somali Mulsims and you slaughter them within minutes.

You capture couple of French Kufars and you give them a chance before a Sharia law.

Execute them later or not, you have already shown preferential treatment to a white chrisitian captive over a Muslim Somali captive.

Is it not bad time for you to come back to your deen as Allah is oft forgiving and mercifull to his slaves.

ghariibstranger @ 7/20/2009 2:51 PM EST
 MOMO519
These are the most truthfull words I've heard from you so far
[We are grateful what Allah gave us in the west].
But Allah has giving you a better than this and that's is Jihad for his couse.

Is it not bad time for you should come back to your deen as Allah is
oft forgiving and mercifull to his slaves.
momo519 @ 7/20/2009 12:00 PM EST
 
It is an inside source and you'll hear when the goverment presents its case to the public.

abass @ 7/20/2009 11:54 AM EST
 momo519,
Where did you get this information from? you said she gave
her passport to someone else. Can you substantiate? it
is interesting to know!
dadsomali @ 7/20/2009 11:07 AM EST
 Naagtaani haddii ay been sheegeyso waa la cadeyn lahaa
mar hore ee waxaa loogu dhagan yahay waa madoownimo iyo
soomalinimo. Kuwa halkaan gaalada ka difaacaya marnaba
ma ogolaanayaan ilaa ay ayaga ku dhaxcdo. Laakiin markay
ku dhacdo waa " too late" sida ay gaaladu tiraahdo.
momo519 @ 7/20/2009 10:00 AM EST
 

Stranger,

We live in the west peacefuly with more rights than in any other Arab country. We've studied in the west for free. We are in the west as equal citizens. My relatives born in the Arab world are treated as second class citizens and some are in jail without due process.

We are grateful what Allah gave us in the west.

momo519 @ 7/20/2009 9:56 AM EST
 

She sold her passport to some other woman. That woman got caught and was arrested at the airport. When she was released without fingerprint, the real passport holder is pretending that she was the one arrested. And she is demanding to get her passport back.

This people are not dump.
..................................

JJ @ 7/20/2009 7:56 AM EST
 You see 'Haybad waxaa ku leedahay dhulkaaga hooyo". We somalis have identity crisis and west's black/red passports are not taken grant. I have two, but I would prefer to travel green-bakara-made-somali passport if i could.
simbe @ 7/20/2009 7:33 AM EST
 This sister will come to her home but these Kenyan greedy bribe seekers will harass her some time. Sh*t country, Somali people should move from there to Ethiopia and Addis Ababa, you are more welcome there, I have been both in countries with several times, the deferent is huge.

rako @ 7/20/2009 7:32 AM EST
 What if she is lying. Many people are traveling across
the world, Why only this lady only. Something is not
right.
GHARIIBSTRANGER @ 7/20/2009 6:39 AM EST
 Those who claim the west is our alied than think again
this can happen to anyone of you be prepare for the worst.

The west will never be your friends even if you become christians.
fiqicigaal @ 7/20/2009 4:17 AM EST
 warka
Indeed!
warka @ 7/20/2009 2:19 AM EST
 her story is like of many other somalis hustling in other
parts of the world.
Oh Allah return to our lands safely.
Hey'bad waxaad kuleedahay dulkaga hooyo.

 
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