Documents obtained under the Privacy Act seem to indicate that Mr. Abdelrazik, a Canadian citizen, was incarcerated in Sudan on the request of Canadian officials. While in prison in December 2003, he was interrogated by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), despite Canadian doubts about Sudan's human rights record. Mr. Abdelrazik was held without charge and eventually released. After six years in exile, the government was forced by the Federal Court to allow Abousfian to return to Canada.
From Omar Khadr in Guantanamo Bay to Ivan Apaolaza Sancho, who was held at RDP prison in Montreal for over a year and deported on the basis of information obtained under torture, to Hassan Almrei, a security certificate victim in Ontario who has been detained without charge for almost seven years under threat of being deported to face torture in Syria, Canadian officials are involved in torture.
This is part of a dangerous trend to deny some people their most fundamental human rights, ironically, in the name of "security" and even "civilization". Public ignorance, political exclusion and racism have allowed this to continue for far too long.
Actions in Montreal are taking place to bring into the open Canadian complicity in torture in the name of the so-called "war on terror".
Popular education materials have been developed on immigration security measures. Some of these resources tell the stories of the victims of the Canadian national "security" agenda.
From secret trials to extraordinary rendition to deportation to torture, the list of victims of the so-called national security agenda keeps growing. Some of the cases that have gone public are collected here. Many more are kept private and go unreported...
On Friday, 23 May 2008 the Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui organized the People's Camp, a community-based info-fair. This is the first of several camps that are going to be held in different Montreal neighbourhoods.
For three days, the People's Commission on Immigration "Security" Measures held Public Hearings at a community centre in Montreal's St-Henri neighbourhood. The first popular commission of inquiry to take place in Quebec, it was set up to look into the injustices and abuses inflicted on immigrants in the name of national security, and to offer recommendations for change and action.
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