Bangladesh court clears Toronto student of allegations in terror attack
The family of a Toronto university student who was detained in Bangladesh expressed relief Wednesday after a court formally cleared him of all allegations related to a deadly terror attack in the country three months ago.
Tahmid Hasib Khan, a permanent resident of Canada, was taken into custody after surviving a July 1 raid on an upscale restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, in which 20 hostages were killed.
He was never charged in connection with the attack but was held as he was interrogated for weeks.
On Wednesday, a judge cleared Khan of any involvement in the bloody siege after investigators found no evidence connecting the 22-year-old to those who carried out the attack.