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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1845&ncid=737&e=3&u=/cpress/ 20040531/ca_pr_on_na/mahjoub_hearing Holding Egyptian as national security risk for four years called cruel Mon May 31, 6:02 PM ET COLIN PERKELTORONTO (CP) - Keeping an Egyptian refugee in jail for almost four years without charge or trial constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, his lawyers said Monday. Mohammad Mahjoub was arrested on his way to work in June 2000 and has been held ever since at the Toronto West Detention Centre, a jail that normally houses short-term inmates and has been dubbed Canada's Guantanamo Bay after the U.S. military prison in Cuba. "He should be released," John Norris, one of his lawyers, told Mahjoub's week-long bail hearing as it kicked off on Monday. Canadian security officials argue Mahjoub is linked to the Vanguards of Conquest, an extreme Muslim group with ties to the terrorist group al-Jihad. The evidence has been kept secret, even from his lawyers, and no proof of his terrorism links have been tested in a Canadian court. Accepted as a refugee in Canada in 1996, Mahjoub denies any terrorist ties and is fighting deportation on the grounds that he would again face torture if returned to Egypt. Among Monday's witnesses was his wife, Mona Elfouli, a Canadian citizen for 22 years who described the impact his detention has had on her and their three children. Almost all their contract since he was snatched by security agents has been through a plexiglass screen by telephone. "It was very, very difficult for me and the children," Elfouli told Federal Court Justice Eleanor Dawson, dabbing her eyes from time to time. "Are they punishing the children or what? They feel sad." At one point after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S., her husband was moved into segregation for seven months. At other times, she and her two young children would arrive for an appointment only to be told by a guard they couldn't see Mahjoub. Sometimes, the telephone wouldn't work. The situation is taking its toll on her six-year-old son Ibrahim, in particular, she said. The Grade 1 pupil has become constantly agitated and anxious about any separation from her, said Elfouli, who also has a four-year-old in junior kindergarten and a teen in first year at the University of Windsor. "He needs to see his father," she testified as her husband occasionally rubbed his eyes and stroked his bushy black beard from the prisoner box a few metres away. Frank Geswoldo, head of security at the Toronto jail, said immigration detainees are essentially treated like the accused common criminals who are also housed there. "What's the difference?" Geswoldo said. "Cells are cells." Mahjoub is one of five Muslim men held without charge or bail on national security certificates. Their case has drawn the support of various rights groups and recently about 100 people protested outside the west-end jail, where three have been held, to demand their release. Matthew Behrens of the group Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada has blasted the incarceration as "undemocratic." Earlier, Peter Dietrich of the Canadian Border Services Agency testified that foreigners believed to pose a security risk are housed in provincial facilities. It's up to the province to decide where, Dietrich testified. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. 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