Adil Charkaoui and Canadian Government

: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz A Canadian man the federal government once accused of terrorism has won a small victory in his ongoing legal battle for compensation for damaging leaks of government documents to the media, according to Brandon Sun. In a recent decision, a Federal Court judge ordered Ottawa to give Abousfian Abdelrazik information about similar leaks concerning Adil Charkaoui, another Canadian the government branded as having terrorist ties. Abdelrazik, poses for a photo, June 10, 2010 in Montreal. The secret documents leaked in 2007 and in August 2011 disclosed in part a discussion Abdelrazik apparently had with Charkaoui about hijacking and blowing up an Air France plane from Montreal to Paris. "The facts common to both leaks do create a context of relevancy," Judge Simon Noel ruled. "Both the 2007 and 2011 leaks relate to the same discussion. Federal Court ruled in 2009 that Canadian anti-terrorism agents had played a role in his detention, and criticized the Canadian government handling of the situation. Another common fact is that both leaks were published by journalists of La Presse." Abdelrazik, 53, a Sudanese-born Canadian, gained widespread attention when Ottawa refused for six years to facilitate his return from Sudan, where he was imprisoned and, he says, tortured. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.