Mentally ill Canadian convicted in terror probe lands in U.S. supermaximum security prison Calls grow louder for transfer of Abdulraham El Bahnasawy to a Canadian prison

June 10, 2021   

(CBC) A Canadian family and U.S. experts alike say a mentally ill man from Mississauga, Ont., who was convicted for his role in an online terror plot while a teenager shouldn’t be in a supermaximum security prison in Colorado.

Instead, they say he should be sent back to Canada where he can serve the remainder of his 40-year sentence and get the psychiatric help he needs.

Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy was a 17-year-old living at his parents’ home in Mississauga, west of Toronto, in 2015 when he met an undercover FBI agent online who he thought was a member of ISIS. El Bahnasawy agreed to help plot attacks in New York City, including the bombing of Times Square and the city’s subway system.

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