Source: Arab American News
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Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 18:56:43 -0400
Mohamed Harakat [sic] and his wife Sophie are stuck. Harakat, an Algerian, is one of the five men against whom Canada has issued security certificates. Never charged or convicted of any crime, he is out of prison on strict bail conditions. Now, the Harakats are living in conditions that are untenable, and the judge refuses to allow them to move to the new home that they have located.
They have been living in the basement of a house occupied by Sophie's mother and her boyfriend, and the bail conditions included the requirement that Sophie, her mother, or her mother's partner be with Mohamed at all times. Then the mother's romantic relationship fell apart, and she moved out.
Now, relations between the Harakats (especially Sophie) and the former boyfriend in whose house they continue to live are growing ever more tense. The boyfriend, Alois Weidemann, had agreed to house them for up to six weeks after Judge Eleanor Dawson permitted his bail to continue after Sophie's mother left. Now, about three months later, tensions between Sophie and Weidemann appear close to the breaking point. Bitterness between the former lovers causes hostility when the mother visits the Harakats.
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