Archives: Adil Charkaoui

Archives: Adil Charkaoui

photo of Adil Charkaoui
Photo by Canadian Press (CP)



Here are some news items which deal with the security certificate case of Montrealer Adil Charkaoui. Court decisions are listed at the bottom of the page.

Adil Charkaoui has been released on bail (February 17, 2005.) He has many conditions and restrictions which he must abide by and he wears a monitoring device on his body. Although he no longer sits in a prison in Rivieres des Prairies, Quebec his legal battle against the security certificate continues as does his struggle to clear his name.


February 23 2007
Canada's Supreme Court has struck down the controversial security certificate process which allowed the Canadian government to detain and deport foreign-born terror suspects. The nine judges ruled that the security certificate system - in place since 1978 - violated Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The system allowed a suspect to be held indefinitely or deported on the basis of evidence presented in secret. Read the decision Charkaoui vs. Canada. in English. En Français.

  • Les avocats d'Adil Charkaoui demandent l'arrêt du processus judiciaire, par Laura-Julie Perreault, La Presse, 22 mars 2005

  • CSIS agent testifies at Charkaoui hearing about threats to Canada, by Nelson Wyatt, Macleans.ca , February 21, 2005

  • Charkaoui wins bail release, by Miro Cernetig, The Toronto Star, February 18, 2005

    Adil Charkaoui has been released on bail (February 17, 2005.) He has many conditions and restrictions which he must abide by and he wears a monitoring device on his body. Although he no longer sits in a prison in Rivieres des Prairies, Quebec his legal battle against the security certificate continues as does his struggle to clear his name.


  • Adil Charkaoui de retour en Cour fédérale, par Radio-Canada.ca , 7 février 2005

  • Charkaoui petitions court to be released on bail, by Sue Montgomery, The Montreal Gazette, February 7, 2005

  • Judge refuses to free terror suspect, by Canwest News Service, in The Ottawa Citizen, January 19, 2005

  • Suspected terrorist aided, financed group linked to al-Qaida: CSIS, by Brian Daly, Macleans.ca , January 10, 2005

  • (U.K.) Terror detainees win Lords appeal, by BBC News Staff, BBS News Online, December 16, 2004

  • Décision de la Cour fédérale d'appel: La détention d'Adil Charkaoui maintenue, par Rollande Parent (Presse Canadienne), Journale de Montréal, 10 décembre 2004

  • Security certificates constitutional: court, by CBC News Staff, CBC.CA, December 10, 2004

  • Morocco: Counter-terror Crackdown Sets Back Rights Progress, summary of a Human Rights Watch report on Morocco's treatment of terror suspects, October, 2004

  • lettre de Monia Mazigh en appui d'Adil Charkaoui Montreal Muslim News listserv, 1 septembre 2004

  • Une correspondence entre Sophie Harkat et Hind Charkaoui, soeur d'Adil

  • Un An - Une poeme d'Adil Charkaoui, 21 mai, 2004

  • Supreme Court won't hear Charkaoui case, Montreal Gazette, May 6, 2004

  • Coalition delivers letter to Paul Martin's Lasalle riding office, asks for a sit-down, February 20, 2004

  • MISE À JOUR au sujet d'Adil Charkaoui // UPDATE on Adil Charkaoui by Mary Foster on behalf of The Justice Coalition For Adil Charkaoui, Jan 4, 2004

  • The Bail Hearing of Adil Charkaoui The Marxist-Lenist Daily, July 2003

  • Defending Charkaoui by Ken Hechtman, Montreal Mirror, June 5 2003

  • Le cas Charkaoui: Une procédure contraire aux regles de justice fondamentale
    Communique par Ligue des droits et libertés, http://www.liguedesdroits.ca

  • The suspicious arrest and detention of Adil Charkaoui