Yasser Albaz, has been imprisoned in Egypt since February 2019, when he was detained at the airport in Cairo while on his way home from a business trip.
His detention has been widely condemned as arbitrary, as he hasn’t been charged with anything.Just weeks away from welcoming her third child, Amal’s pain is all the more searing.“My four-year-old thinks his grandfather is still on a plane coming back home and it’s just taking a really long time.
And here I am, about to give birth. I can only hope he’s here with us for that,” she told Global News.“We’re living this nightmare.
It doesn’t feel like a dream.”Amal has been fighting tirelessly to bring Albaz home and escalate his case to the Canadian government.