Adil Charkoui speaking at UW

"Security Certificate" Detainee Speaks Out

Wednesday June 17
7:00
MC 2066
University of Waterloo (Math & Computer building)

Join wpirg for a discussion with Adil Charkaoui, one of five men in Canada who are undergoing the discriminatory security certificate process. A Montreal teacher and father of three children, Adil has been at the forefront of an important struggle for justice in Canada for over six years.

Arrested in 2003 under an immigration "security certificate", Adil spent two years in prison and four years under draconian conditions, pending a court hearing of his certificate which, to date, has never taken place. The interim conditions forced his mother or father to accompany him each time he left home, and imposed many other restrictions on him. All of that time, he has lived under the threat of deportation to Morocco, where Immigration Canada recognizes that he would be at risk of torture or death.

Adil has never been charged with any crime nor given any trial whatsoever.

In February 2009, the Federal Court finally lifted most of the interim conditions imposed on Adil Charkaoui. He continues to live under the label of "suspected terrorist" - which has cost him his job and much else - and under the threat of deportation to torture. Adil is using this opportunity to speak in cities across the country as part of his continuing struggle to clear his name and achieve justice in Canada.

Wednesday June 17
7:00
MC 2066
(Math & Computer building)

University of Waterloo
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Adil Charkaoui on Cross-Canada Speaking Tour

In February 2009, the Federal Court finally lifted most of the interim conditions imposed on Adil Charkaoui. Adil was arrested under a so-called security certificate in 2003; he spent almost two years in jail before being released under draconian conditions pending the outcome of the process against him. Now, for the first time in six years, Adil is able to travel freely outside Montreal. In June, he will be taking advantage of this restored freedom to travel to other parts of Canada to speak about his continuing struggle to clear his name and achieve justice in Canada.

While the decision in February was a very welcome step in the right
direction, Adil's struggle is not over. He is still forced to wear a GPS-tracking bracelet; he continues to live under the label of "suspected terrorist" (a label which has already cost him his job and much more); and he is still threatened with deportation to torture.

Adil Charkaoui is one of five men in Canada who are undergoing the Kafka-esque security certificate process. All are still subject to the agonizingly irrational "security" certificate process, deeply invasive and suffocating bail conditions, and live under threat of deportation and torture.

Main events

HALIFAX, 1 June @ 7pm, Room 105, Weldon Law Building, Dalhousie University,
6061 University Ave.
More info: tel. (902)-488-6071 or parker@resist.ca.

FREDERICTON, 2 June @ 7pm, Renaissance College, 811 Charlotte St.
More info: info@frederictonpeace.org

KINGSTON, 16 June @ 7pm, Dunning Hall Rm 12, Queen's Campus (corner of
University Ave and Union St)
More info: 613-453-9532 or brhmieb@hotmail.com

WATERLOO, 17 June. details tba
More info: tel. 519-569-8085 or sarcalison@hotmail.com

TORONTO, 18 June.
More info: nooneisillegal@riseup.net

VANCOUVER, June 26th @ 6:30pm, Rooms 1420-1430, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West
Hastings.
More info: tel. 604 630 9754 or 778 552 2099 or info@bccla.org.

VICTORIA, June 25th.
More info: research@vipirg.ca

Background

* 1995 Charkaoui family (Adil, his sister, mother and father) moves to Canada as permanent residents
* May 2003 Charkaoui arrested and imprisoned, without charge or trial, pending a review of his certificate by the Federal Court
* February 2005 Charkaoui released from prison but placed under draconian conditions, still pending a judicial review of the certificate
* February 2007 Supreme Court of Canada strikes down security certificate legislation, but leaves law in place for a year
* February 2008 New law ratified by Parliament; new certificates issued against Charkaoui, Harkat, Almrei, Mahjoub, and Jaballah
* June 2008 Supreme Court rules that CSIS can no longer destroy evidence
* February 2009 Federal Court releases Charkaoui from almost all his
conditions, but leaves in place a tracking bracelet, still pending
judicial review of the certificate

More information

Coalition Justice Adil Charkaoui
justiceforadil@riseup.net
cell: 514 222 0205
www.adilinfo.org