[wvns] Canada: 6 years no trial, no bail
Terror suspect loses bid for bail
COLIN FREEZE
Toronto Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071005.almrei06.ott/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20071005.almrei06.ott
Canada's security-certificate law may be crumbling, but it will keep
one al-Qaeda suspect imprisoned for at least a few more months.
Hassan Almrei, the only inmate of a multimillion-dollar prison built
in Kingston to hold alleged terrorists whom Canada cannot legally
deport, Friday lost his bid for bail. A Federal Court judge ruled he
will continue to be held for his alleged ties to al-Qaeda.
The Syrian national has been imprisoned for six years, remaining in
custody even as he has seen four other al-Qaeda suspects released into
strict forms of house arrest.
In the other cases, judges have decided that the threat represented by
the suspects has diminished over time. Spouses and immediate family
members, it has been ruled, must watch them around the clock to ensure
they are upholding release conditions.
Unlike the others, however, the 34-year-old Mr. Almrei has no close
family in Canada. His supporters have yet to find an acceptable bail
surety.
Mr. Justice François Lemieux Friday reiterated that Mr. Almrei should
be considered dangerous because of his lack of credibility, his role
in the early-1990s Afghan jihad, his ties to a people-trafficking
network in Thailand and his role in procuring a fake Canadian passport
for a fellow mujahed in Toronto.
The Federal Court has found all of the security-certificate detainees
represent probable threats to Canadian national security.
But the courts have found it would be inhumane to deport these men to
Egypt, Syria or North Africa, because the states have reputations for
torturing Islamic fundamentalists.
Last February, Canada's Supreme Court struck down the overarching
security-certificate law as unconstitutional.
The country's top judges ruled courts could no longer hear secret
Crown intelligence in ex parte proceedings, where there has been no
representation on the part of the defence.
Parliamentarians were given a year's grace period to come up with
fixes, but there has been no movement on a new law.
The existing law will expire in four months.
It is unclear what constraints Mr. Almrei or any of the men under
house arrest would face if the clock runs out on the
security-certificate law.
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