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Adel Benhmuda

Adel Benhmuda: Immigration Minister Chris Alexander has waived the $6,800 fee his department was demanding before allowing the former Mississauga family to return. Most of the fee $6,000 was to cover the costs of deporting the family to Libya in 2008. Upon arrival at the Tripoli airport, Benhmuda was imprisoned and tortured, according to The Star. More at thestar.com: Timeline Adel Benhmuda and his family can return to Canada without paying the costs of a deportation that resulted in his torture, the federal government has decided. The demand for payment, revealed by , was seen by supporters of the family as adding outrageous insult to injury. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.