"Adil Charkaoui is a Morocco-born permanent resident of Canada suspected by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service of having ties with the al Qaeda terrorist network.
He is one of five Muslim men detained in Canada since 2001 under a controversial law that allows detention of non-citizens declared to be a threat to national security, pending their deportation to their country of origin. Charkaoui was arrested in May 2003 and detained for 21 months without formal charge or trial. Access to his lawyer was restricted. Numerous legal challenges have been argued before the Canadian Federal Court, Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. He was released from custody on $50,000 dollars bail on 18 February 2005. His bail conditions included a curfew, electronic monitoring and designated chaperones for leaving his home..."