Hassan Almrei
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A Syrian, Hassan Almrei (Arabic: حسن المري) arrived in Canada in 1999 claiming refugee-status. He used a false United Arab Emirates passport which hid his time spent in Afghanistan, and a Canadian visa which he bought on the black market for $5,000.
He was arrested on a security certificate in October 2001, following a Royal Canadian Mounted Police search of his Toronto house in the wake of 9/11. The search allegedly yielded a computer containing 137 pages of photographs that included images of Osama bin Laden, firearms, a security badge and a jet cockpit.
While at the Toronto West Detention Centre, he staged two hunger strikes - a 39-day fast that succeeded in ensuring winter clothing and shoes in his cell during the winter, and a 73-day fast calling for an hour of exercise per day.
In April 2006, he was moved to a new detention facility at Millhaven Institution, specifically meant to house those held under security certificates.
On October 5, 2007, media reports indicate a Federal Court of Canada judge denied bail for Almrei.
Canadian Liberal Member of Parliament Andrew Telegdi, New Democratic Party Members of Parliament Alexa McDonough and Bill Siksay, and Alexandre Trudeau, a son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, had all offered to post bail, and a Toronto woman had agreed to let him live in her basement. According to media reports, though, , Justice Francois Lemieux said in his October 5 decision that Almrei's plan to live under supervised house arrest was "wholly inadequate."
The October 5 decision was the third time Mr. Almrei had applied for release. Of six terror suspects being deported by Canada under security certificates, he is the only one still in custody.
[edit] See also
- Charkaoui v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) (2007)
- Michelle Shephard, Terror suspect denied bail, Toronto Star, October 6, 2007
- Colin Freeze, Terror suspect loses bid for bail, Globe and Mail, October 5, 2007
- Stewart Bell, Court refuses bail to terror suspect, National Post, October 6, 2007
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