Urgent Action Required to Save Life of Secret Trial Detainee Mohammad Mahjoub, on Day 62 of a Hunger Strike in Solitary Confinement

YOUR PERSISTENT ACTION LAST WEEK GAVE SECRET TRIAL DETAINEE HASSAN ALMREI ENOUGH HOPE TO SUSPEND HIS HUNGER STRIKE. MR. MAHJOUB NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT AS HIS LIFE ENTERS A CRITICAL WEEK

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"Don't Make Me a Widow," Pleads Wife of Secret Trial Detainee Mohammad Mahjoub on Day 62 of His Hunger Strike for Improved Conditions in Solitary Confinement

Mona Elfouli calls on Justice Minister Irwin Cotler, Prime Minister Paul Martin, Deputy PM Anne McLellan, Immigration Minister Joe Volpe and Ontario Minister for Corrections Monte Kwinter, to Respond to Her Husband's Demands for Medical Attention and Contact Visits with Children

TORONTO: SEPTEMBER 6, 2005 -- After two months without food, secret trial detainee Mohammad Mahjoub, an Egyptian refugee held since June, 2000, without charge or bail at Metro West Detention Centre, is weak and in ill-health as he marks day 61 of a hunger strike.

Almost eclipsed by the high-profile hunger strike of Syrian refugee Hassan Almrei, who ended his protest Saturday on Day 73 without food, Mahjoub has continued his quiet, determined battle for improved conditions of detention while he awaits the outcome of the lengthy court processes which will determine whether he will receive bail and, in the longer term, whether it is legal to deport him to torture in Egypt.

Mahjoub is demanding, among other things:

- a monthly contact visit with his children, denied to him after more than five years at Metro West;

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