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Short of dragging his daughter through the streets of Baghdad, a Calgary father had no choice but to leave her in Iraq, his lawyer told an international kidnapping trial Tuesday.
Defence counsel Balfour Der said Ali Al Aazawi can’t be held legally responsible for the fact his then-11-year-old daughter, Zahraa, refused to return to Canada, as scheduled, in September 2018.
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The Criminal Code section dealing with international kidnapping “is silent as to how to force an unwilling child to come back home,” Der told provincial court Judge Greg Stirling.
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Short of dragging his daughter through the streets of Baghdad, a Calgary father had no choice but to leave her in Iraq, his lawyer told an international kidnapping trial Tuesday.
Defence counsel Balfour Der said Ali Al Aazawi can’t be held legally responsible for the fact his then-11-year-old daughter, Zahraa, refused to return to Canada, as scheduled, in September 2018.
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The Criminal Code section dealing with international kidnapping “is silent as to how to force an unwilling child to come back home,” Der told provincial court Judge Greg Stirling.