By Andrew Duffy
Source: The Ottawa Citizen
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
OTTAWA - Lawyers for four terror suspects, including Ottawa's Mohamed Harkat, have told the Federal Court they want to represent their clients as "special advocates" in secret evidentiary hearings.
Defence lawyers Paul Copeland and John Norris are two of the 13 special advocates who have received top secret security clearance from the federal government. Special advocates were created by the government's new security certificate law, which seeks to improve upon the original version struck down last year by the Supreme Court.
Norris said he has volunteered to take on the role of special advocate out of a sense of duty to his clients, terror suspects Mohammad Mahjoub and Mahmoud Jaballah.
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JUNE 2017: Mohamed Harkat once again faces deportation to his native Algeria after the Supreme Court of Canada declared the federal government’s security certificate regime constitutional. This fight is not over. The Justice for Mohamed Harkat Committee will re-double its efforts to see that justice is done for Mohamed Harkat and that the odious security certificate system of injustice is abolished once and for all.
JUNE 2017: Mohamed Harkat once again faces deportation to his native Algeria after the Supreme Court of Canada declared the federal government’s security certificate regime constitutional. This fight is not over. The Justice for Mohamed Harkat Committee will re-double its efforts to see that justice is done for Mohamed Harkat and that the odious security certificate system of injustice is abolished once and for all.
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