Release: Charkaoui being released

    Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui, 18 February 2005
 
Montreal, 18 February 2005 -- Secret trial detainee Adil Charkaoui will be leaving the Riviere de Prairies Detention Centre (11900 ave. Armand-Chaput, RdP, Montreal) tonight after almost two years of arbitrary detention. He will be available for brief comments before leaving the Detention Centre.

His immediate plans are for a joyful and quiet weekend of reunion with his family.

Charkaoui will be appearing in Federal Court (30 McGill Ave., Montreal) at 9:30 on Monday, 21 February, for the hearing on the reasonability of the "security certificate".

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