Ottawa's efforts to deport terror suspects to resume this fall

posted on August 30, 2008 | in Category Security Certificates | PermaLink

by Andrew Duffy
Source: Canwest News Service
URL: [link]
Date: August 29, 2008


OTTAWA - The federal government is about to resume its epic legal campaign to deport five high-profile terror suspects.

All five of the country's security certificate cases have been scheduled to go before Federal Court judges in November and December - although there is one legal hurdle yet to clear.

The federal judges will be asked to determine the "reasonableness" of the security certificates based largely upon Canadian Security Intelligence Service evidence heard in secret. Reasonableness is a legal standard that is lower than those applied in criminal and civil court.

The five men targeted by the certificates include the Moroccan-born Adil Charkaoui, Hassan Almrei of Syria, Egyptians Mahmoud Jaballah and Mahamed Zeki Mahjoub and Algerian refugee Mohamed Harkat.

[ Read the rest ... ]