Last month's edition of No one is illegal radio carried important interviews with two people at the forefront of the continuing campaign to abolish security certificates:

• Latifa Charkaoui, mother of Adil Charkaoui, speaking at the International Women's Day Conference in Montreal;

• Adil Charkaoui, one of five persons under a "security certificate", speaking at length about the "new" security certificate law.

LISTEN to the inverviews.

BACKGROUND: The continuing struggle against secret trials and security certificates

This past February, the Canadian government put into effect a "new" security certificate law, in response to the previous law being declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The new law still allows for secret evidence and secret trials, and does not address the fundamental unfairnes of the security certificate process, which allows for individuals to be detained and put under suspicion without any precise charges, and without the basic right to a fair and free trial, nor the ability to challenge the unproven allegations.

On this month's show, we hear from LATIFA CHARKAOUI, mother of Adil Charkaoui, who spoke at an International Women's Day conference organized by the Women of Diverse Origins group in Montreal on March 1st. In her moving speech, she speaks about the conditions endured by her family under a security certificate, which transforms family members into jailers. She also recites a story called 'The Bracelet', which is an imagined dialogue, written by Adil Charkaoui, between himself and his young son concerning the GPS tracking bracelet he is forced to wear on his ankle as a condition of release from prison.

As well, we have an exclusive extended audio interview with ADIL CHARKAOUI, who has been under a security certificate since May 2003, and under state surveillance for almost a decade. In this interview, Adil addresses the new security certificate law, special advocates, his legal challenge to the new law, his current conditions of "release", his reaction to the publication of unproved allegations against him on the website of the Federal Court; the use of security certificates to justify the "war on terror", and more.

LISTEN to Latifa and Adil Charkaoui on the March 2008 edition of No One Is Illegal Radio.

"The Bracelet" can be read here.

No One Is Illegal Radio reports about the frontline struggles for justice, dignity and self-determination by migrants, refugees and indigenous peoples. It broadcasts live on the first Thursday of every month, from 5-6pm (EST), as part of "Off the Hour", produced in collaboration with the community news collective at CKUT.  We're at 90.3 FM in Montreal, and www.ckut.ca on the web. No One Is Illegal Radio's shows are archived.

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