Stranded Somali-Canadian to return home

An autistic Canadian man of Somali ethnicity, stranded in Kenya for three years, will soon be travelling home.

ECOTERRA Intl. staff accompanied the 25 year old on Monday to the Canadian High Commission to fill application forms for an Emergency Travel Document (ETD).

Passport Canada will give 25-year-old Abdihakim Mohamed a one-way travel document, but not a passport, to return from Kenya.
The Canadian authorities had confiscated his passport, which his mother carried for safekeeping

His mother, Anab Issa, in numerous attempts with the assistance of Canadian organizations and a lawyer had tried unsuccessfully and since three years to get back the passport and to her son back to Canada from the East African country, but Canadian officials insisted that he didn't look like his passport photo, and that he didn't seem to be autistic.

After meanwhile famous Suad Haji Mohamed, this is the second case , where only massive pressure from a human rights organization, several Canadian MPs and the media could achieve that the Canadian Border Service and other governmental services involved get moving.

Though the ETD as well as arrangements for the travel are believed now to finalize over the coming days without any further delay, the Canadian High Commission did not furnish Abdihakim Mohamed with a protection letter or similar documentation which could be endorsed by the Kenyan authorities - stating that he is in Kenya legally until he will fly home.

The Canadian lawyer of the family had called last Thursday for an inquiry into the government's treatment of citizens stranded abroad.

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