Secret Trials Hearing in Toronto October 2nd 

via Katherine Hughes

"Syrian refugee Hassan Almrei is the last of Canada's secret trial detainees to remain behind bars at the notorious Kingston Immigration Holding Centre, aka Guantanamo North.

 

This October, he is again applying for bail, and needs your support. If you are near Toronto, please consider coming to court and supporting Hassan's constitutional challenge to his indefinite detention.
 

"Arrested in October 2001, Hassan spent the next four years and three months in solitary confinement, shivering through two winters without heat under barbaric conditions that led him to undertake a dangerous 43-day hunger strike in 2003 to get the heat turned on.

 

In the fall of 2003, the federal government admitted in an internal memo (released at the Arar Inquiry) that there was not enough information to lay a criminal charge against Hassan, yet five years later, he remains indefinitely detained without charge because of the draconian security certificate system, a medieval form of two-tier justice in which the lowest standards are applied to refugees and permanent residents based on a mix of racial profiling and fear (all five of Canada's secret trial detainees are Arab Muslims).

"DATE: Thursday October 2, 9:30 am (and likely Friday, October 3, 9:30 am (email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to confirm Friday)
LOCATION: Federal Court, 180 Queen Street West (check for courtroom at second floor registry), Toronto."

More information on how you can help even if you can't make it to court:
 

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