More than 200 people, including a legislator, were injured in the riots, some of whom were rushed to hospital for treatment.

The new government named in January came after weeks of political stalemate and amid nationwide protests while Lebanon grappled with an unprecedented economic crisis.

Diab, his wife and two young children have filed a notice of action in Ontario Superior Court seeking tens of millions of dollars for alleged abuse of process, infliction of emotional distress and other claims.

Hassan Diab, a university professor and former education minister, will have to steer Lebanon out of its worst economic and financial crisis in decades.

Diab's health card and Ontario driver's licence were returned, but his citizenship certificate was not returned and was later sent to France, where he spent three years behind bars until the allegations were dismissed.

An external probe into the extradition of the Ottawa academic was released Friday.

Federal prosecutors who worked on the case did their jobs ethically and within the law, the review states.

The federal government is expected to release findings today of an independent review of an extradition that resulted in Ottawa professor Hassan Diab spending three years in a French jail.

The French Court of Appeal's decision sparked immediate rebukes from Diab, his lawyer and human-rights groups, as well as fresh calls for Ottawa to launch a public inquiry into Diab's case.

An external probe will examine why Hassan Diab was extradited to France despite serious red flags raised repeatedly about the evidence presented by French prosecutors.