Par Adil Charkaoui

Cela fait cinq ans que je lutte inlassablement, réclamant un procès juste et équitable selon les principes de la justice fondamentale et niant les allégations des services secrets canadiens. Or, à défaut d’un procès public, ce qu’on m’offre depuis le 23 février 2007, date à laquelle la Cour Suprême du Canada avait déclaré à l’unanimité les certificats de sécurité inconstitutionnels, c’est un procès sur la place publique, une campagne de diffamation. Dernier épisode en la matière : des allégations farfelues, ridicules, signées par un pseudonyme dans un forum de discussion sur le net!

A dialogue between a father and his four year old son,
by Adil Charkaoui (translated from French)*
 
- Daddy, daddy …
- Yes, little one.
- What are you wearing around your neck?
- Around my neck! Nothing.
- No - there!
- Ah! You mean around my ankle.
- That's the neck of the foot, the ank... ?
- Ankle.
-  But you haven't said what it is.

- Well, that, it's a bracelet.
- How long have you worn it?
- Three years.
- Why do you always wear it?
- Because i've got to, it's a present.
- Who gave it to you?
- It was tonton.
-  Which tonton?
-  Okay…it was uncle Sam…
-  Who is uncle Sam?
-  Really, you ask too many questions. It was somebody who gave it to me ...uncle Sam, uncle Stephen, uncle Security. It doesn't really matter, you don't know him.
-  Ok, but why is your bracelet black?
-  Because those who gave it to me have white faces but black hearts.
-  Why isn't it gold like Mommy's?
-  Because the people who gave it to me don't have golden hearts, little one.

On 6 December 2007, Adil Charkaoui made a presentation before the Standing Committee on Public Security, which is charged with reviewing Bill C-3 introduced by the Conservatives in October. Download the transcript of Mr. Charkaoui's presentation.

Canada mars international human rights day (10 December) for third year running

Montreal, December 10, 2005: In 2003, Canada marked international human rights day by arresting refugee Mohamed Harkat under a "security certificate"; they have held him without charge under threat of being sent to torture ever since. On 10 December 2004, the Federal Court of Appeal rejected Adil Charkaoui's constitutional challenge to security certificates. (The appeal will be heard by the Supreme Court in June 2006.) And yesterday, the Federal Court failed to uphold the absolute, international ban on torture.

Yesterday, the Federal Court rejected a motion from one of the victims of security certificates, Adil Charkaoui, heard in October 2005. The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) excludes people who have been labelled "security threats" from provisions to guarantee that no one is deported to torture. Johanne Doyon, one of Charkaoui's lawyers, argued that keeping a person under threat of torture violates Charter rights to life, and security of the person, the protection against cruel and unusual punishment, as well as equality before the law.