Security certificate detainees Muayyed Nureddin, left to right, Abdullah Almalki, and Ahmad El Maati. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
OTTAWA - Three men who claim Canada had a hand in their overseas torture have taken their cases directly to Stephen Harper's doorstep.
Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin concluded a caravan tour by presenting petitions signed by Canadians to the Prime Minister's Office in Ottawa's Langevin building.
The three Canadian citizens told their stories flanked by sign-toting supporters and several demonstrators clad in orange jumpsuits and black hoods portraying prisoners in the war on terror.
The trio maintain they were tortured in Syria - and in the case of El Maati in Egypt as well - as a result of flawed information from Canadian security agencies.
The federal government has rebuffed calls for more openness at an inquiry into their cases, being held almost entirely in secret.
Almalki, an Ottawa electronics engineer, says he was touched by the outpouring of support from ordinary Canadians on the caravan tour, and hasn't given up hope for a more open inquiry.
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