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Ontario girl charged with terror-related offences over journey to Turkey-Syria border granted bail | CBC Information


An Ontario girl dealing with terror-related costs together with her husband after they allegedly tried to cross the Turkish border to Syria two years in the past has been granted bail.

Haleema Mustafa, 23, appeared Wednesday morning by way of Zoom in Ontario Superior Court docket in Brampton from the Maplehurst Correctional Centre in Milton.

Her bail listening to was held final Friday, however the particulars are protected by a publication ban. 

The Markham, Ont., girl and her husband, Ikar Mao, are charged with leaving Canada to take part within the actions of a terrorist group and collaborating within the actions of a terrorist group.

Mustafa’s husband, Ikar Mao, was denied bail in December 2019. This photograph was posted on his profile on Couchsurfing.com, which Mao used in the summertime of 2019 to search for lodging in Sanliurfa, a Turkish metropolis lower than 50 kilometres from the Syrian border. (Ikar Mao/Couchsurfing.com)

Mustafa and Mao, who’s from Guelph, Ont., had been detained in Turkey in July 2019 after household alerted officers they feared they is perhaps planning to cross the border into Syria to hitch the Islamic State in Syria (ISIS). They had been launched and returned to Canada in October 2019.

Mao was arrested and charged in November 2019. He was denied bail in December 2019. 

9 months later, Mustafa was additionally arrested in Pickering, Ont., and charged with the identical offences.

The couple will likely be tried collectively. Trial dates are set for 4 weeks starting in June, however these dates could change due to COVID-related restrictions.

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