Harkat's wife vows to fight his deportation

posted on March 26, 2005 | in Category Mohamed Harkat | PermaLink

Source: CBC News Ottawa
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Date: March 24, 2005


OTTAWA - Sophie Harkat is vowing to fight to keep her husband in Canada. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service believes Mohamed Harkat is an al-Qaeda sleeper agent who's been living in Ottawa since the late '90s.

Earlier this week, a federal court judge upheld the security certificate that has been used to keep Harkat in jail for more than two years.

About 100 of Harkat's supporters gathered in Ottawa, Wednesday, to protest his expected deportation to Algeria. Sophie Harkat spoke briefly to the gathering at the human-rights monument on Elgin Street. She promised to fight her husband's deportation.

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