Canadian university professor Hassan Diab is back home in Ottawa after a nine-year ordeal that included three years in a French prison on terrorism charges.
Canadian officials in Paris issued Diab travel documents as he did not have a valid Canadian passport.
Diab was extradited from Canada three years ago after a prolonged legal battle against extradition. French prosecutors had linked him to a 1980 synagogue bombing that killed three people.
Although the French courts produced little evidence to back up that claim, Diab’s requests to return to Canada were repeatedly denied.
He is expected to appear at a news conference Wednesday morning at the offices of Amnesty International in Ottawa.
Rania Tfaily, wife of Hassan Diab, on France dropping the terrorism allegations against her husband. 8:04
