MOHAMMAD MAHJOUB CLOSE TO DEATH – AUTHORITIES REFUSE HOSPITALIZATION

RALLY 5-6 PM AT ART GALLERY (ROBSON SIDE) FRI SEP 23
24 HOUR VIGIL FRI SEP 23 6 PM UNTIL SAT SEP 23 6 PM
We encourage you to wear black. Bring banners and placards.

On Day 77 of his hunger strike, Mohammad Mahjoub is very weak and in constant pain. After 5 years of detention on secret evidence and without being charged, he does not wish to end his hunger strike, saying that it is the only way left for him to fight for his dignity and that of his family.

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Rally for Hunger Striking Detainees
THUR SEP 1 @ 5PM VANCOUVER ART GALLERY (ROBSON SIDE)

By Thursday September 1, Hassan Almrei will be on Day 71 of his hunger strike in a Canadian prison. Emaciated and weakened, he is at imminent risk of permanent, severe impairment and, very possibly, of death. Hassan Almrei has been imprisoned in solitary confinement without charge since October 2001 under a security certificate. A refugee, he is under threat of deportation to Syria where he risks torture. Hassan Almrei is demanding minimally decent conditions of detention; his main demand is the right to one hour a day of exercise outside of his cell. This is his 6th hunger strike in 4 years. Government authorities have so far callously refused to make the slightest concession. By Monday August 29, Hassan will know whether the court will hear his habeas corpus application for bail.

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HONOURING MAYUK (NICOLE MANUEL) AND ALL SECWEPEMC DEFENDERS

FRIDAY JULY 15, 2005 10 AM TO 2 PM. ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER 1607 EAST HASTINGS. Info: contact Art Manuel 250-319-0688 or NOII at 778 885 0040

==> PRESS CONFERENCE AT 10:30 AM
* Mayuk, Secwepmc Youth Movement and recently released political prisoner
* Professor June McCue, Director, First Nations Legal Studies, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia Law Faculty
* Mr. Rick Quipp, Cheam fisherman, charged for fishing without a Fishing Permit.
* David Denis: West Coast Warrior Society, recently subjected to Burrard Street Police Takedown
* Mr. Arthur Manuel, Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade (INET),spokesperson
* Ms. Tara Scurr, BC-Yukon Organizer, Council of Canadians

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STATUS FOR ALL!
SUNDAY JUNE 26 @ 2 PM
GATHER AT VICTORY SQUARE

Lunch served at The Canadian Refugee Camp at Victory Square. The Canadian Refugee Camp will go up prior to the march and visually depicts the various historic and present community struggles against exclusionary immigration policies.

A silent march to honour all the deportees struggling against Citizenship and Immigration Canada….

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ABOLISH SECURITY CERTIFICATES
June 8th, 2005 4:30. Vancouver Art Gallery (Robson side)

This action is part of a pan-Canadian day to Stop Secret Trials in Canada. Canada’s Secret Trial Five are five Muslim men whose lives have been torn apart by accusations that they are not allowed to fight in a fair and independent trial. All five men were arrested under “Security Certificates,” a measure of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) that has been described by Amnesty International as “fundamentally flawed and unfair”. Security certificates and secret evidence reverse the fundamental rule of innocent until proven guilty. Neither the detainee nor his lawyer are informed of the precise allegations or provided with the full information against him. They are imprisoned indefinitely without charges on secret evidence and face deportation to their countries of origin, even if there is a substantial risk of torture or death.

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