security certificates

Mohammad Mahjoub Speaks in Vancouver!

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:29:37 +0000

Fri Apr 12

city:

Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories

Venue:

YWCA on Beatty

Address:

733 Beatty St

Cost:

free

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Link:

https://www.facebook.com/events/100815126780130/

For twelve long years, Mohammad Mahjoub, a torture survivor, has been detained without charge in Canada.

The Other Arars: Where the Exception is the Rule

Abe — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:25:29 +0000

Adil Charkaoui one the five men in Canada living under a security certificate.
He was in Vancouver on June 26, 2009 for an event sponsored by No One Is Illegal-Vancouver, BC Civil Liberties Association, Canadian Muslim Union, Council of Canadians - BC / Yukon Region, Canadian Islamic Congress, and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

CHARKAOUI spoke on Security Certificates and Secret Trials and the Canadian state’s complicity in the torture of Maher Arar.

Adil Charkaoui speaks in Vancouver

dawn — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:13:46 +0000

On CSIS, Security Certificates and understanding Kafka

Adil Charkaoui spoke about his experience as one of five men in Canada living under a security certificate. He was in Vancouver on June 26, 2009 for an event sponsored by No One Is Illegal-Vancouver, BC Civil Liberties Association, Canadian Muslim Union, Council of Canadians - BC / Yukon Region, Canadian Islamic Congress, and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Photo by Cecily Nicholson.

Adil Charkaoui

cecily — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:23:08 +0000

June 26th, 2009 Adil Charkaoui speaks in Vancouver about his experience being arrested, detained, harassed and surveilled for the last six years, under a Canadian Security Certificate -- his CSIS-issued GPS tracking device on the table within arms reach.

What is a security certificate?
A security certificate,
It’s the right to be treated outside the law
It’s two-speed justice
It’s precedent for secret trials…
It’s contact visits with no contact
It’s the glass that separates you from loved ones,
It’s deadlock, solitude; it’s breathing corruption…
It’s the guilt of being born elsewhere…
It’s human folly clothed as wisdom.
It’s me today, maybe you tomorrow!
(Excerpt of poem by Adil Charkaoui, translated from French)

Security Certificates, a measure of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, allows for the preventive arrest and detention of non-citizens, without charge, under secret evidence that can lead to indefinite detention and possible deportation to torture.

Hosted by No One Is Illegal-Vancouver, BC Civil Liberties Association, Canadian Muslim Union, Council of Canadians - BC / Yukon Region, Canadian Islamic Congress, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.