CANADIAN RETURNS HOME FROM EGYPT AFTER 2019 ARREST

Yasser Albaz, a Canadian engineer who was arrested at Cairo airport at the end of a business trip in February 2019, has been released and is back in Canada but needs medical treatment, his family said on Thursday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in February he had raised the case of Albaz during a meeting in Addis Ababa with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-sisi. “We are happy to announce that Yasser Albaz has been released by Egyptian authorities,” his daughter Amal Ahmed Albaz said, adding he flew into Toronto.