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It’s been more than a decade since U.S. authorities freed Ayub Mohammed from their Cuban prison, having decided he was not, after all, an “enemy combatant.”

In that time the ethnic Uyghur from China has earned a business degree from the New York University of Tirana in Albania — his home since 2006 — met online and married a Canadian woman, and had three children, all of whom are Canadian citizens.

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Now he wants to live with them in Montreal.

But Mohammed’s four-year ordeal at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and the radioactive stigma that comes with it continue to haunt him.

The Federal Court of Canada recently ordered a new hearing for the 36-year-old after immigration officials denied his request for permanent resident status here. Disagreeing with those George W. Bush administration officials, a visa officer concluded he was a member of an obscure terrorist organization, and thus inadmissible.