The Alberta Court of Appeal has ruled that an Edmonton man should be extradited to the United States to face terrorism and murder charges.
Canada's justice minister granted extradition last summer after receiving assurances from the U.S. that Sayfildin Tahir-Sharif wouldn't face the death penalty.
The judgement read, "In our view, a sentence of life imprisonment without parole, while not a sentence available in Canada for the charges upon which the Minister has ordered the appellant’s surrender, would not sufficiently shock the conscience of Canadians such that his surrender to face those charges would be unjust or oppressive."
Tahir-Sharif is charged in the U.S. for allegedly supporting a terrorist group that took part in a suicide bombing in Iraq which killed five American soldiers in April 2009.
Sharif has been in custody in Edmonton since his arrest in January 2011.
With files from The Canadian Press
