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Vol. 76/No. 22      June 4, 2012

 
Refugee in Ontario fights deportation
 
BY JOHN STEELE  
OTTAWA, Ontario—Mohammad Mahjoub, fighting threat of deportation to Egypt under a “national security certificate,” spoke at a May 12 rally here kicking off a seven-city speaking tour in Ontario and Quebec. The security certificate system allows the government to detain noncitizens indefinitely without charge or trial pending deportation.

Accepted as a refugee in 1995, Mahjoub was arrested by the Canadian Border Service Agency in 2000 and has since been in jail or under house arrest. He is forced to wear a GPS bracelet and is under constant surveillance.

“For years I was kept in a specially built prison for Muslims jailed under security certificates,” he explained.

“The principle of the presumption of innocence and workers’ rights are under attack in Canada,” Denis Lemelin, national president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, told participants. A statement of support was read from the Canadian Labour Congress.

The tour will wind up with a June 26 rally in Toronto. For more information, email: justiceformahjoub@gmail.com.
 
 
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