The Parole Board of Canada has imposed strict conditions on the statutory release of Mohamed Hersi, the first person in Canada to be tried for attempting to leave the country to join a terrorist activity abroad, citing the need to “protect society.”
Hersi, 37, is being released after serving more than nine years and seven months in prison, after he was convicted of participating in the activities of a terrorist group and counselling another person to do the same. He was arrested at a Toronto airport in 2011 as he was about to travel to Egypt and later join the Al-Shabaab, a jihadist militant group in Somalia.
