Hassan al-Kontar's plight started after he did not return to Syria from UAE, where he was working in insurance, when war broke out in his country in 2011.

Kontar was fearful that if he had returned to Syria, he would have been forced to join the army.

So he stayed in UAE illegally to only get arrested in 2016.

Kontar had managed to get a new passport and was deported to Malaysia on a three-month tourist visa.

Later he had tried to go to Turkey but failed. He had to gone to Cambodia but had to comeback.

After posting videos regularly from Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur International Airport, he was sponsored by two organisations- British Columbia Muslim Association and Canada Caring Society- to arrive in Vancouver, Canada as a refugee.

He has been granted an asylum.