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Thread #98444   Message #1962917
Posted By: GUEST,Dickey
09-Feb-07 - 11:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Give em shit, Canada
Subject: RE: BS: Give em shit, Canada
Since then Dat has responded and does not agree that the hew evidence is enough to keeP Arar on the watch list.

Here are some more names to ponder:
Secret Trial Detainee Mohammad Mahjoub Seeks Bail After 6 Years of Detention
"...Held Without Charge Since June, 2000, Mohammad Mahjoub Applies for Bail Monday, December 4, 2006...
...Mohammad Mahjoub, who has served the longest of any of the secret trial security certificate detainees (since June, 2000), heads to Federal Court on Monday, December 4 at 9:30 am in Toronto to seek release to his family. Held without charge or bail for more than six years, Mahjoub, a refugee from Egypt, has been held at Metro West Detention and now in Kingston's Millhaven Penitentiary on the basis of secret evidence neither he nor his lawyer can see or challenge...
...Mahjoub's incarceration has included lengthy spells in solitary confinement and a series of hunger strikes protesting lack of medical treatment for conditions contracted in prison. One hunger strike lasted 79 days....."

Security certificates and secret evidence
"...Mahmoud Jaballah says he's no terrorist and he's never been charged with any crime in Canada. But since 2001, Jaballah has been in a Canadian jail because the government of Egypt says he's part of a terrorist organization called al-Jihad. The Canadian government believes that and says he's not a legitimate refugee, so it's trying to deport him back to Egypt, where Jaballah says he will be tortured and killed..."

Urgent Action Message from the Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada
"Stop the Illegal Deportation of Hassan Almrei. Almrei To Face Same Torture as Maher Arar if Canadian Government Has Its Way and Deports Him to Syria Within Two Weeks...
...Refugee Has Spent Over Two Years in Solitary Confinement in Toronto Prison on "Secret "Evidence" Neither He nor his Lawyer is Allowed to See"

Urgent Bail Support Required For Mohamed Harkat
""Mohamed Harkat has been detained under a Security Certificate since Dec. 10th, 2002 without any charges or access to the evidence. He has been held for 41 months without a fair and open trial. CSIS claims they have "so called" secret evidence against him. Our legal team has been kept in the dark since his arrest. He is not staying at Guantanamo North in Kingston area. He was granted bail on May 23rd under very strict conditions but his campaign is still short of the target for the bail money..."