Omar Khadr’s Sister Wants Ottawa to Remove Her Name From Threat List and Allow Her Return to Canada

Zaynab Khadr, sister of Omar Khadr, leaves court during a break in hearings in Federal Court in Ottawa, on June 23, 2009. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press

The elder sister of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr wants the federal government to remove her name from Canada’s no-fly list, on grounds that she is not a threat to the country.

Zaynab Khadir filed an appeal in Federal Court on Oct. 30, seeking an order to make the minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair remove her name from the no-fly list—names of individuals suspected to have reasonable grounds to threaten and commit terrorist offences—so that she can fly back to Canada.