(Canada) Supreme Court reviews first conviction under anti-terrorism act
In 2004, Mohammad Momin Khawaja became the first Canadian charged under Canada's anti-terrorism act. He was convicted four years later and is now serving a life sentence.
On Monday, The Supreme Court of Canada begins a review of the case.
Khawaja was born in the Ottawa area in 1979, the second son of Azra and Mahboob Khawaja, who immigrated to Canada in 1975. While Momin was a child, his family also lived in Libya, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia before returning to Canada in 1991.
In pre-sentencing statements to the court in 2009, both parents said theirs was "a traditional Muslim family."
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In a December 2003 email, Khawaja had written that the person he loved most in the world was Osama bin Laden.
full: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/06/08/f-momin-khawaja.html
