Action in solidarity with Adil Charkaoui

Wednesday, 10 December at Noon*
Outside Federal Court, 30 McGill St. (Square Victoria metro), Montreal

As Canada marks International Human Rights Day this December 10, secret hearings will be continuing in Ottawa.

The public face of those secret hearings - show trials in which the individual is supposed to show that it isn't reasonable to believe that he has the profile of a potential threat, without knowing the case against him - without knowing the case against them, have already begun in some of the security certificate cases.

The show trial in Adil Charkaoui's case will begin in Montreal on 9 December, even though it was just revealed that the spy agency CSIS has not yet given anyone - not even the judge - evidence to support its opinions about Adil. In addition, the hearings will take place under a judge that Adil's lawyers have already had to argue should withdraw from the case on the grounds of bias. (More info, click here.).

The Charkaouis have been struggling for _very_ basic rights for five years and nine months - against racial profiling, secret trials, torture, arbitrary detention - in what feels like a treadmill of injustice. The endless court proceedings completely banalize the injustices, humiliations, threat of violence and intrusive state control Adil and the rest of his family are subject to on a daily basis.