Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui, August 2007
 
Help keep CSIS spies under public surveillance!
 
FILL THE COURT as Adil Charkaoui challenges the criminal leak of information in his case & argues that the severe conditions imposed on him, without any trial, under an illegal law, on the basis of secret suspicions, should be dropped.

Wednesday, 22 August from 9:30am (also, 23 and 24 August)
Federal Court, 30 McGill St. (Square Victoria metro)

In June, La Presse published a leaked, top secret document, carrying allegations against Adil Charkaoui. The allegations were quickly printed and re-printed across the country. For the most part, the unproven and sensational allegations proved of greater interest to media outlets than the fact that someone in the government with top security clearance had leaked information, presumably in an attempt to derail the successful campaign against the injustice of the security certificate process. The incident strongly recalled the leak of secret information in Maher Arar's case, on the eve of Arar's first big public statement about what happened to him.

CSIS announced that it had begun an internal investigation into the criminal leak and that it had asked the RCMP to open an investigation as well. Two months on, there has been no further communication on the issue from the spy agency. There has been no meaningful public comment from Stockwell Day, the Minister responsible for CSIS, about the serious questions raised by the leak.

From 22 to 24 August, Charkaoui will be in Federal Court to challenge the proceedings against him subsequent to the criminal leak of information in his case.
He will also argue, on the basis of the February 2007 Supreme Court ruling, that security certificates are unconstitutional, that the conditions imposed on him by virtue of this law should be dropped (see legal argument here).

CSIS is an agency that prefers to work under the cloak of secrecy and that has proven itself, time and again, to be unworthy of public trust.
Please join us on 22 to 24 August to help ensure that CSIS activities no longer escape public scrutiny and censure. Please confirm your presence on 22, 23 or 24th August, so we can let you know if the court schedule changes: send a message to justiceforadil@riseup.net.

The fall promises an important struggle between those who seek a future of equality and justice, and those who would drive us further towards racist paranoia. The Conservative government is preparing to introduce new security certificate legislation - a new two-tiered system of justice; a different kind of procedural unfairness; a new form of indefinite imprisonment (involving intrusive state control and surveillance); and a continued threat of deportation despite probable torture. We face the possibility of further dirty tricks from those who fear opposition to security certificate legislation and racial profiling. We are counting on your full support and solidarity.