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A Montreal imam has responded to the revocation of his passport, saying that while he had been “interviewed many times over the years by Canadian authorities,” he had no idea why the government took away his travel document.

“To this day I still do not know why the authorities invalidated my passport,” Ali Sbeiti wrote in an affidavit released Friday by the Federal Court. “Like any Canadian citizen, I wish to have the right to travel with my Canadian passport.”

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The affidavit was sworn before a notary public in Beirut on Wednesday. Mr. Sbeiti’s lawyer, Mitchell Goldberg, declined to explain how his client was able to travel to Lebanon when his passport had been seized three months ago.

Mr. Goldberg said he would “not be commenting through the media on the details of my client’s file.” In an earlier email, he wrote, “If there is clear evidence that a Canadian citizen supports a terrorist group, they should be criminally prosecuted.”