OTTAWA—A judge is weighing whether to grant the federal government an indefinite delay in a torture compensation lawsuit that has dragged on for nine years and is unlikely now to be resolved for many more months or years. Federal Court Justice Martine St-Louis was supposed to start hearing witnesses in the 10-week civil trial of a lawsuit filed by Sudanese-Canadian Abousfian Abdelrazik that was scheduled to start Monday. But she adjourned in order to consider the unusual request on the day the long-running lawsuit was to finally begin. ( Justin Tang / THE CANADIAN PRESS )Abdelrazik is suing the federal government for $27-million in redress, claiming Canadian CSIS officials were complicit in his 2003 arrest in Sudan. That review would be conducted by a different Federal Court judge.

Source: thestar September 17, 2018 22:32 UTC