A Canadian teenager is heading to Brussels this week to meet with European Union officials to seek help in freeing her father detained in the United Arab Emirates.
Salim Alaradi, a Canadian citizen, had been operating a business in the U.A.E. when he was arrested in August of last year.
He has been given no reason for his arrest and has not been permitted to communicate with his family.
His 18-year-old daughter, Marwa, says she hopes E.U. parliamentarians can help because they have relations with the U.A.E. and may have some influence.
Libyan-born Salim Alardi, who is now 46, immigrated to Canada from the U.A.E. with his family in 1998, living in Vancouver until he decided to return to the Middle Eastern nation in 2007 to run a home appliance business with his brother.
Marawa Alardi says when her family was on vacation last August on U.A.E.’s Palm Jumeirah island, the hotel’s reception desk called her father’s room late at night telling him someone from the country’s security service wanted to speak to him.
She says when her parents went downstairs, her father was taken away.
Foreign Affairs says senior Canadian officials have been in contact with U.A.E. authorities to raise concerns regarding Alaradi’s well being.
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