Mohamed Mahjoub Court Hearing
Dear friends:
I only saw this announcement late Sunday evening. I am hoping that some may still be able to come to the Federal Courthouse in Toronto at the address and time given below:
Federal Court, 180 Queen Street, 6th floor (Toronto)
Monday, October 3rd at 9:30am
Mr. Mahjoub was arrested in June 2000 under an immigration security certificate. He has remained in jail and under house arrest, without charge or trial and under threat of deportation, ever since. Mr. Mahjoub was accepted as a refugee in Canada in 1996 after it was recognized that he had been subjected to torture in Egypt.
At the hearing tomorrow, Mr. Mahjoub's legal team will ask the Court to suspend proceedings against Mr. Mahjoub. In July 2011, Department of Justice staff took privileged and confidential documents belonging to Mr. Mahjoub's legal team, which were in a break out room at the Federal Court in Toronto. The "mistake" was not noticed until one month later, after staff had gone through the material and mingled it with their own. This has violated Mr. Mahjoub's right to communicate in privacy with his lawyers. Coming on top of CSIS and CBSA's systematic violation of solicitor-client privilege for years (through listening, recording and analysing Mr. Mahjoub's conversations with his lawyers, according to a CSIS operational policy), it has caused irreparable harm that can only be set right by stopping this process and freeing Mr. Mahjoub from this interminable nightmare.
Please come out to show your support for Mr. Mahjoub and your complete rejection of racist security certificates.
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