Adil Charkaoui

Egyptian refugee Mohammad Mahjoub seeks an end to proceedings against him

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Published April 24, 2012, in Adil Charkaoui, Hassan Almrei, Mohammad Mahjou

By John Bonnar

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From the press release:

Egyptian Refugee Mohammad Mahjoub was in court again yesterday in a bid to end proceedings against him after a court-ordered inquiry into a Department of Justice seizure of his confidential legal documents found multiple instances of prejudice that make continued trial against Mr. Mahjoub untenable.

Last summer, the government seized boxes of confidential materials belonging to Mr. Mahjoub and his lawyers from the court, viewed and copied them and mixed them with their own. The Court ordered an independent third party, Prothonotory Aalto, to supervise the separation of these documents. The results of Prothonotory Aalto’s supervised review are being presented to the court. They show multiple instances of Highly Privileged documents and Extremely Privileged documents viewed by the Department of Justice.

“The Department of Justice seized my legal documents and misled the courts,” Mr. Mahjoub said. “I’ve lost all my confidence in the Department of Justice and the security establishment.”

Mr. Mahjoub has been detained without charge under a “security certificate” since June 2000. Despite numerous scandals – from CSIS listening in to calls with his lawyers, to the use of illegal information obtained under torture – the case has dragged on for almost 12 years.

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Charkaoui demands inquiry into leak of documents

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Published August 11, 2011, in Adil Charkaoui

By KATHERINE LALANCETTE

Document leak to media brings back ‘nightmare’

MONTREAL – Adil Charkaoui says he’s tired of having his name dragged through the mud, calling the latest terrorism allegations against him “a recurring nightmare.”

Along with the Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui, the Montreal teacher and father of four is calling for a public inquiry into last week’s document leak.

On Aug. 4, what appeared to be a Canadian Security Intelligence Service document from 2004 was anonymously released to the media. The document, which CSIS would not confirm was its own, alleged Charkaoui and Abousfian Abdelrazik had plotted to bomb a Montreal to Paris flight over a decade ago.

Both men, once suspected of terrorism but later cleared by Canadian authorities, vehemently denied the allegations.

Charkaoui, a Moroccan-born permanent resident of Canada, succeeded in getting his name cleared in 2009 after he was detained under a security certificate – a seldom used measure allowing authorities to arrest and hold non-citizens without charge and without disclosing the evidence against them.

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Adil Charkaoui freed

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Published December 30, 2009, in Adil Charkaoui

A top story 2009: Charkaoui freed after long ordeal and help from determined supporters

By SUE MONTGOMERY, The Gazette

On a recent evening, dozens of people of various ages, backgrounds and walks of life – from lawyers to politicians to activists – sat side by side at long tables in a basement community centre on Beaudry St., enjoying platters of chicken, couscous and roasted vegetables.

The celebration was for one person: Adil Charkaoui, a man whose life the Canadian government turned into an Orwellian nightmare when it falsely accused him of being a terrorist.

After 61/2 years, Charkaoui was finally cleared in September, when the Federal Court quashed the security certificate bearing the 36-year-old’s name, and many, including his lawyer, believe it wouldn’t have happened if a small but tireless army of people hadn’t supported him and brought his plight to public attention.

Charkaoui, whose wife recently gave birth to the couple’s fourth child, is grateful for and somewhat awestruck by the madame-et-monsieur-tout-le-mondes who firmly believed that the security certificates – a tool under immigration law that allows the government to arrest non-citizens without charge and detain them indefinitely without ever being able to see the evidence against them – have no place in a democracy like Canada.

“In the Koran, it says that even if you pay all the money in the world, you can’t buy a heart,” Charkaoui said in a telephone interview while driving back from his job as a French teacher in a Catholic high school in St. Jean sur Richelieu. “If I paid all the money in the world, I couldn’t have bought such a committed and sincere group of people.

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Charkaoui declared a free man

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Published October 15, 2009, in Adil Charkaoui

A security certificate against a Montreal man accused by Ottawa of having terrorist ties has officially been declared null and void.

Adil Charkaoui, a married father of three who has steadfastly denied any links to terrorists, said Wednesday he’s elated with the judgment.

Federal Court Justice Daniele Tremblay-Lamer wrote that the certificate has been quashed and that Ottawa has no right to appeal.

Tremblay-Lamer said the notion of national security is a question of perspective and that grey zones can exist.

‘Finally, it’s the end of this nightmare,’— Adil Charkaoui

“It’s understandable that a disagreement on … one element of the evidence might lead the ministers to believe the court has given more weight to the rights of an individual over the demands of national security,” Tremblay-Lamer wrote. “However, this belief is not founded.”


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Federal terror case against Charkaoui in jeopardy

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Published August 21, 2009, in Adil Charkaoui

Federal terror case against Charkaoui in jeopardy

Adil Charkaoui flashes a victory sign as he leaves a news conference Wednesday, June 25, 2008 in Montreal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

OTTAWA – The federal case against a Montreal man accused of terrorist ties could be on the verge of collapse due to a dispute over secrecy.
The government says it has withdrawn evidence against Adil Charkaoui because disclosing related information to him would endanger national security – a move that might scuttle the entire proceeding.
The disputed material was apparently gathered through secret interceptions, informants and foreign sources, all of which the government is leery of exposing.
In a submission to the Federal Court of Canada, the government acknowledges that the remaining evidence on file doesn’t “meet their burden of proof” to support the national security certificate being used to deport Charkaoui.
The government continues to argue, however, that Charkaoui should not be allowed to stay in Canada, and it wants the Federal Court of Appeal to rule on the disclosure issues, with the ultimate aim of breathing new life into the certificate.

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Junior jihadist or senior al-Qaeda leader?

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Published July 19, 2009, in Abousfian Abdelrazik, Abu Zubaydah (Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn), Adil Charkaoui, Ahmed Ressam

FD Editor Note: “And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man”. – (Hamlet, Act I, Scene III)

Abu Zubaydah has been connected to three Canadians, including Mohamed Harkat. Determining Zubaydah’s real place in the world of terrorism holds important consequences, Andrew Duffy writes.

 By Andrew Duffy

When the public phase of the Mohamed Harkat case begins, the epic saga of another accused terrorist — Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Zubaydah — is likely to unfold as well.

Zubaydah promises to be a central figure because the Canadian government says it has evidence that Harkat associated with him since the early 1990s.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has already presented evidence in secret to Federal Court Judge Simon Noël that allegedly ties Harkat to Zubaydah.

According to a summary of that evidence, made public for the first time earlier this year, Harkat admitted in a March 1997 conversation that he knew Zubaydah personally and did not fear being contacted by him at home.

In court filings, CSIS describes Zubaydah as “one of (Osama) bin Laden’s top lieutenants” — a reflection of the status accorded Zubaydah by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

But that intelligence assessment of Zubaydah is now, increasingly, under assault.

Zubaydah’s U.S. lawyers have launched what they call a “reclamation process” to separate fact from the dangerous fiction they say has been authored by the Bush administration to justify their client’s torture.

 

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PM fails a citizen, again

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Published June 8, 2009, in Abousfian Abdelrazik, Adil Charkaoui, Ahmed Ressam

What will it take to get Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government to live up to one of its basic duties, to stand up for Canadians who land in trouble abroad?

The Harper government’s serial indifference to the plight of citizens who run afoul of the Americans has been slammed by Federal Court three times in as many months. Canadians have reason to wonder whether they have elected a clutch of scofflaws to high office.

In a forceful judgment last week, Justice Russel Zinn became the latest judge to accuse Ottawa of treating a citizen shabbily, in the case of a Montreal man who has been stuck in Sudan for six years after Washington apparently put his name on a United Nations no-fly list.

 

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Charkaoui seeks justice on the road

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Published May 29, 2009, in Adil Charkaoui

Adil Charkaoui takes a three minute break as his father Mohammed shows the signs of the strain in keeping up with Adil in Montreal Wednesday January 14 2008. Under a Federal Court ruling Feb. 20, 2009, Cahrkaoui's parents no longer have to accompany him on outings.
 

Adil Charkaoui takes a three minute break as his father Mohammed shows the signs of the strain in keeping up with Adil in Montreal Wednesday January 14 2008. Under a Federal Court ruling Feb. 20, 2009, Cahrkaoui’s parents no longer have to accompany him on outings.

Photograph by: File photo, The Gazette

MONTREAL – With conditions of his security certificate detention now eased, Adil Charkaoui is to begin a cross-country speaking engagement June 1 in Halifax.

The Moroccan-born Montrealer was arrested in May 2003 under a security certificate – a seldom-used tool under immigration law allowing authorities to detain non-citizens indefinitely without charge and without seeing the evidence against them. At the time of his arrest, Ottawa maintained that Charkaoui was a sleeper agent for Al-Qa’ida. He has always steadfastly denied it.

In February 2009, the Federal Court lifted most of the interim conditions imposed on Charkaoui following his release from jail in 2005, pending his court case.

Charkaoui, one of five men in Canada undergoing the security certificate process, must still wear a GPS-tracking bracelet.

The cross-Canada speaking tour wraps up in Victoria June 25.

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Judge lifts some restrictions imposed on alleged terrorist Adil Charkaoui

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Published February 20, 2009, in Adil Charkaoui

Judge lifts some restrictions imposed on alleged terrorist Adil Charkaoui

By: THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA – A federal judge is easing some of the strict conditions imposed on alleged terrorist Adil Charkaoui.

Federal Court Justice Daniele Tremblay-Lamer says some of the restrictions had become disproportionate given the number of years that had passed since Charkaoui first faced terrorist allegations.

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