Due Process

Or permanent limbo?

Ottawa Citizen- Twenty-two years later, federal government still working to deport Ottawa’s Mohamed Harkat

Harkat was arrested on Dec. 10, 2002, in the heated aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when North American security agencies were under intense pressure to identify and neutralize al-Qaida “sleeper cells.”

He was taken into custody on the strength of a security certificate, a powerful and rarely used instrument of Canada’s immigration law. It allows the government to detain foreign-born terror suspects indefinitely and to present evidence in secret against them.

Harkat spent more than three years in jail, including a year in solitary confinement, and was under strict house arrest years after that.

3 Replies to “Due Process”

  1. When even the embarrassingly liberal Supreme Court of Canada thinks you’re a terrorist…you’re a terrorist.

    “Before his arrest, he worked as a pizza delivery man and gas station attendant while also developing an expensive casino gambling habit. “

    Atta boy! Helping to grow Canada’s future with every pull on the lever.

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