Original author: Sophie Harkat , sophielamarche at hotmail dot com
Source: Harkat Email List (Riseup.net)
Date: September 26, 2005


(please reply to this email or to Sophie Harkat at [email] )

Dear Friends and Supporters, (please share with your lists or post)

Many of you generously offered to help us on many occasions if we ever needed anything. If you have done so already, or if you are helping in other ways, thank you. However, if you would like to help, or you can do a bit more, that time has come...We need your help NOW.

All of you are very familiar with our case and know that a negative ruling came down on March 22nd in regards to the validity of the Security Certificate under which my husband, Mohamed Harkat has been detained since Dec. 10th, 2002 (33 months) without any charges or access to the evidence. The good news is, 120 days after the ruling, Moe is eligible to apply for a bail hearing. No date has been set yet, but Moe's lawyers are looking into a hearing date at end of September.

On March 22nd, Judge Dawson of the Federal Court of Canada ruled that there were ''reasonable'' grounds to believe that my husband was a threat to National Security: all based on SECRET EVIDENCE that CSIS provided. Mohamed's lawyers never had, nor will they ever, have access to that ''so called'' evidence under the Security Certificate process.

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