[antiwar-van] Today!: Mohammad Mahjoub Speaks in Vancouver!

[Harsha W.]

-please forward widely-

Friday April 12
6:00 pm at the YWCA (733 Beatty Street)
Next to Stadium Skytrain
(NOTE: This is the YWCA on Beatty, not Hornby Street)
Unceded Coast Salish Territories

FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/100815126780130/

Part of a West Coast Speaking Tour. Speaking event in Vancouver
co-organized by: Justice for Mahjoub Network, No One Is Illegal-Vancouver
Unceded Coast Salish Territories, and BC Civil Liberties Association


For twelve long years, Mohammad Mahjoub, a torture survivor, has been
detained without charge in Canada. He was held for lengthy periods in
solitary confinement and later under house arrest - all on the basis of
secret information which the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)
has admitted was likely obtained under torture. Finally, after twelve
years, Mr. Mahjoub is permitted to travel outside Toronto, and he is
bringing his demand for justice across these lands.

Mr. Mahjoub is one of five Muslim men who have been struggling for justice
in Canada against so-called security certificates. Security certificates
allow the government to indefinitely detain or deport people on the basis
of their profile and based on secret information that is never revealed to
the person in question � making a proper legal defence impossible. He will
tell his story as his speaking tour, which began in 2012, continues into
Western Canada. It is a rare opportunity for audiences in other cities to
hear this shocking and compelling story first-hand.

He will be joined by Syed Hussan, a member of the Justice for Mahjoub
Network. Hussan is a migrant justice, anti-austerity and indigenous
solidarity organizer who has been active in No One Is Illegal � Toronto
and the Solidarity City Network (which just made Toronto Canada's first
Sanctuary City).

** More on Mahjoub http://www.supportmahjoub.org/background/summary-2/ **
Security certificates
http://www.supportmahjoub.org/background/security-certificates/


Event Accessibility: This building has about 10 stairs to the front
entrance and a side ramp to the front entrance. the room is on the ground
level with double doors. there are two wheelchair accessible bathrooms.

There will be snacks and childcare on site.

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WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO:

Financial support. Cheques should be made out to No One Is Illegal Toronto
with Justice for Mahjoub in the subject line. Mail to Justice for Mahjoub
Network c/o No One Is Illegal-Toronto, 260 Queen Street West, PO Box
60006, Toronto, ON M5V 1Z8. (Please confirm that you have made the
donation by emailing justiceformahjoub at gmail.com.)

Pass on this message to your networks and encourage people to come out to
hear Mohammad Mahjoub.

Sign the Justice for Mahjoub Network letter to Prime Minister Harper
demanding that the remaining security certificate detainees be immediately
freed, that all five receive compensation and citizenship and that
authorities responsible be held accountable. Please download, sign and
then scan and email it to us at justiceformahjoub at gmail.com, by April 9th
latest! The letter is here: http://www.supportmahjoub.org/archives/1447.