Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub: Federal Court Of Canada

Edmond Blanchard Dept: In a decision Monday, Justice Edmond Blanchard chided the federal government for failing to demonstrate the necessity of the conditions that essentially placed Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub under 24-hour surveillance, according to The Star. Mahjoub was arrested in Toronto in 2000 on a national security certificate, which allows Ottawa to detain a non-citizen indefinitely without charge or trial pending deportation and the Federal Court of Canada has ordered Ottawa to lift some of the harshest house arrest conditions imposed on a suspected terrorist, who has been held without charge or trial for a dozen years. The stringent terms and conditions currently in place are no longer necessary to neutralize the diminished threat posed by Mr. Mahjoub, Blanchard wrote in the ruling of the Egyptian man s detention review. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.