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The BC Muslim Association agreed to sponsor Mr al-Kontar, while the trio of Good Samaritans lobbied the Canadian government and Malaysian officials to let him come to the country. Meanwhile, he spent two months in a Malaysian refugee detention centre, where he said he was interrogated hundreds of times.