A June 19, 2010 panel with community activists from No One Is Illegal Toronto (Farrah Miranda), Vancouver (Harsha Walia), and Montreal (Jaggi Singh), as well our allies Melissa Elliott (Young Onkwehonwe United, Six Nations) and Adil Charkaoui (held on a Security Certificate). This panel focuses on the realities of Canadian immigration and border patrols in relation to broader global dynamics of corporate free trade, militarization and occupation, and the global rise of racist sentiments against Indigenous and immigrant communities.

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By Matthew Behrens | December 13, 2010, rabble.ca

It was ironic that on International Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, family, friends, and supporters of secret trial detainee Mohamed Harkat gathered with him and his wife, Sophie, to weep and reflect on three federal court decisions against him. The latest decision upheld the regime of secret hearings and judicially sanctioned rendition to torture; and Harkat’s supporter’s recommitted to ending what domestic and international critics have labelled a star chamber process. Due to a system based on secret allegations that neither accused nor lawyers can contest, Harkat has, for eight years, been subject to a “security certificate,” a measure by which individuals can be detained, held indefinitely without charge, and ultimately be deported, despite the risk of torture.

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By Don Butler, Ottawa Citizen, December 12, 2010

OTTAWA – Mohamed Harkat’s family and supporters vowed Friday to fight on despite this week’s Federal Court finding that the Ottawa man is a member of the Osama bin Laden terrorist network. “This fight is just beginning,” Harkat’s wife, Sophie, said at an emotionally charged news conference. “I will stand by my husband to the end. My husband will never admit to things he did not do, or to knowing people he did not know. Norm Boxall, one of Harkat’s lawyers, said almost all of Noël’s findings were based on information that was kept secret, even from Harkat’s own lawyers, on national security grounds. “We will be doing everything we can to challenge this judgment,” he vowed.

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By Stephen Lendman, Dissident Voice,  December 11th, 2010

An earlier article explained. Like in America, Canada is waging war on Islam, Mohamed Harkat one of many victims used for political advantage to incite fear and mask Ottawa’s support for US imperialism and war on terror, a bogus one affecting innocent victims like Harkat.

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Postmedia News, December 9, 2010