Fundraising Campaign to cover legal costs
It's been two years since the Federal Court of Canada struck down the security certificate that held the Charkaoui family in a virtual prison for six and a half years. Two years have passed but the struggle for justice is still not won. The government has not been held accountable and Adil Charkaoui still does not have citizenship. We need your support!
From 2003 to 2009:
* Adil was imprisoned, for 22 months, at Rivière des prairies Detention Centre in Montreal, without charge and on the basis of information that was never disclosed to him;
* For over four years, he was subject to an intrusive and humiliating form of house arrest, still without charge, and without disclosure of the information;
* CSIS destroyed evidence in his file and, although the Supreme Court agreed that the practice was illegal and that it created a prejudice against Adil in the case, CSIS was not penalized and the case continued;
* The Supreme Court struck down security certificate legislation as unconstitutional, but Adil was kept under the same conditions until "new" legislation - which the Quebec Bar Association qualified as "not sufficiently different from its predecessor to be considered constitutionally valid" - was introduced, a new certificate issued and the process started all over again;
