A Syrian man who had been living in the transit area of Kuala Lumpur airport since March has been arrested by Malaysian authorities. 
 
 Hassan Al Kontar, 36, became stranded in the airport when he was turned away from a Turkish Airlines flight in March, causing him to overstay his Malaysian visa. 
 
 Since then, a group of Canadians in Whistler B.C., has been trying to sponsor his application to come to Canada, and publicly lobbying Ahmed Hussen, Canada's minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship. 
 
 Al Kontar, who is from Dama, Syria, worked as an insurance marketing manager in the United Arab Emirates from 2006 to 2017. He was arrested on Monday, Malaysia's New Straits Times newspaper reported. 
 
 He eventually lost his work permit after the Syrian conflict broke out and was left scrambling to find a country that would issue him a visa so he would not have to return to Syria. 
 
 In an email to CBC News, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson Charlie Yaxley said the agency is aware of Hassan's arrest and is in communication with Malaysian authorities. 
 
 "[We] have reiterated to them the need to respect relevant international laws, particularly on the principle of non-refoulement (forcibly returning a refugee/asylum-seeker to their country of origin)," he said. 
 
 Malaysia is not a signatory to the United Nations' 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. 
 
 Malaysian immigration chief Mustafar Ali told local media that Al Kontar's social media had "shamed" Malaysia, and that he was arrested for being in a restricted area without a boarding pass. 
 
 Taking care of my ☘Garden🍁 is one of my daily habits, music and coffee too 😋 ☕. both of us can use a little sunshine to our life 🌞😎<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/syrian_stuck_at_airport?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#syrian_stuck_at_airport</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mystory_hassan?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#mystory_hassan</a> <a href="https://t.co/noEfLgk2AB">pic.twitter.com/noEfLgk2AB</a> —@Kontar81 
 
 In April, Al Kontar told CBC News he couldn't return to Syria because he's wanted for military service and fears he'll be arrested upon landing. He's also Druze, a minority religious group in Syria that has been targeted by extremist groups. 
 
 Tweeting the terminal 
 
 Since he became stranded in the airport, Al Kontar documented his existence — sometimes humorously, sometimes despairingly — in a long airport hallway, marked by rows of chairs and two bathrooms. 
 
 He ate three airline meals a day, and would occasionally manage to give cleaning staff money to bring him a cup of coffee or food from McDonald's. 
 
 His Twitter feed, which amassed thousands of followers, documented him trying to perform tasks like giving himself a haircut, working out, knitting a scarf and tending to plants. In one of his last posts before his arrest, Al Kontar wrote about seeing the sun for the first time in awhile. 
 
 In 2014, the Canadian government intervened to bring 21-year-old Syrian refugee Majd Agha to Canada. 
 
 Like Al Kontar, Agha became trapped in Thailand's Phuket airport for months after being turned away from a flight. 
 
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– A Syrian man who found himself stuck in an airport for months after overstaying his Malaysian visa and subsequently refusing to return to his war-torn home country has been arrested. Per CBC, Hassan Al Kontar spent the last seven months living in the Kuala Lumpur airport and documenting on Twitter his life in flux as he attempted to find a country willing to issue him a visa as a refugee. On Monday, Malaysian authorities accused the 36-year-old of being in a "forbidden zone" without a boarding pass and arrested him, per the New Straits Times. At a press conference, Malaysia's Immigration Department director-general Datuk Seri Mustafar Ali reportedly said that Al Kontar said he's unwilling to return to Syria because he fears he'll be forced to become a soldier after years spent working abroad as an insurance marketing manager. Mustafar said his agency doesn't know Al Kontar's "real reason" but cited his country's need for closure in the case. Mustafar also said Al Kontar had "shamed" Malaysia on social media. Throughout his ordeal, a human rights group out of British Columbia had been working to secure a Canadian visa for Al Kontar by putting public pressure on Canada's minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship. Malaysian officials did not say at the time of his arrest whether Al Kontar would be deported.