ATTENTION: NEWS EDITORS Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada PO Box 73620 509 St. Clair Ave. West Toronto, ON M6C 1C0 (416) 651-5800 [email] [link] Day 75 of Hunger Strike of Mohammad Mahjoub: Wife of Secret Trial Detainee Leads Noontime Rally Monday, Sept. 19, 12 Noon, Offices of Corrections Minister Monte Kwinter, 25 Grosvenor St. (2 blocks north of Yonge and College)
On Monday, September 19 at 12 Noon, outside the offices of Ontario Corrections Minister Monte Kwinter (25 Grosvenor, two blocks north and west of Yonge and College), Mona Elfouli will lead a rally calling for immediate intervention to save the life of her husband, secret trial detainee Mohammad Mahjoub, now in day 75 of a hunger strike in solitary confinement at Metro West Detention Centre. The group will then march to Queen's Park and demand a meeting with Premier Dalton McGuinty, who is ultimately responsible for the life of Mr. Mahjoub.Mahjoub, held without charge or bail on a secret trial security certificate, is demanding minimally decent conditions of detention. His main demands include proper medical treatment for the Hepatitis C he contracted at the jail (a prescribed liver biopsy has been denied), proper medical care for as knee injury sustained at the jail, filling a long-neglected prescription for eyeglasses, and touch visits with his young children once a month.
Given that Mr. Mahjoub is not hooked up to any medical monitoring devices, there is a real danger that his blood pressure may take a sudden drop and send him into a coma without anyone knowing before it is too late. Mr. Mahjoub has requested that he be hospitalized given his extremely weak, and painful state.
Mahjoub's hunger strike has drawn attention from a variety of national organizations which have written to federal and provincial officials demanding intervention. Rallies are also being held today in Ottawa (at the constituency office of MPP Richard Patten) and Montreal (at the constituency office of Paul Martin), and a chain fast continues in Edmonton.
For further information: (416) 651-5800.
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