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Written by Peter Marmorek
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Monday, 23 June 2008 16:59 |
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Source: Peter's Blog - 23-jun-08 Some stories are easy to tell. They have a beginning and an end, and you can easily understand what the theme is and how the narrative path leads through action to illuminate meaning. This is not one of those stories. I don't know how it ends, and I fear to think what its meaning may be. But Danish writer Isak Dinesen wrote, "All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story", and as this is about suffering, perhaps it will help to tell it as a story. And I do at least know where it starts. It starts in February, 1991 in a grade ten advanced English class at Clarkson Secondary School in Mississauga. Fifteen years earlier I had found Clarkson an all white suburban school, but by 1991 over a third of its students had been born outside Canada, and they spoke over ninety different first languages. It was both a more interesting and a more challenging place to teach. Shareef Abdelhaleem, a student I met in that class, epitomized both aspects.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 26 June 2008 19:14 )
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Written by Guest Visitor
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Sunday, 22 June 2008 08:30 |
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 22-jun-08
I have known Shareef and his family for many years. Shareef is a very decent young man and a well brought up individual, from a good family background with great characters and honour. Even since Shareef has left to Canada with his family, I have kept in touch with them, and have always had good reports about him. Shareef was not a street hustler; he was not into drugs, alcohol or crimes. These facts however have much to do with Shareef's imprisonment.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 22 June 2008 08:39 )
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Friday, 20 June 2008 14:11 |
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 20-jun-08
Special for captiveincanada.com As of This morning, Friday June 20, 08, Shareef is officially in a hunger strike, after turning down his third meal, protesting the deliberate delay in dealing with the case by the prosecution and the courts. It has been over two years since the arrests took place, with no progress whatsoever in moving toward start of the actual trial, after the prosecution has cancelled the Preliminary hearing with no apparent reason except the obvious pathetic case he has built against the accused. Shareef will be moved to segregation this afternoon, and will be monitored by the prison authorities. This move might bare a bad consequence on his health as he had an open heart surgery weeks before the arrest. Please, show support to Shareef and take a minute to send him a letter of how you feel about this major injustice in Canada.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 20 June 2008 21:51 )
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Wednesday, 26 December 2007 06:18 |
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Source: Toronto Star, 26-dec-07 Mississauga man behind bars for nearly 19 months wants to hear evidence in case against `Toronto 18′ After nearly 19 months in jail, many of them in solitary confinement, accused homegrown terrorist Shareef Abdelhaleem wants just one thing: “Give us a trial or let us go.” “This will affect our lives profoundly. We can never get back things, big and small,” said the 32-year-old, speaking to a reporter for the first time during a series of telephone interviews from jail about belonging to the so-called Toronto 18, an alleged Al Qaeda-inspired terror cell. “These are the years when you grow a pot-belly, get married and have kids.”
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 10 April 2008 20:59 )
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Sunday, 09 December 2007 13:35 |
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On behalf of the Canadian Political Prisoners
Shareef Abdelhaleem, Zakaria Amara and Fahim Ahmad
On June 2, 2006, the lives of three young Canadian citizens, along with others, were changed forever. Like other young Canadians, these men aspired to complete a degree or find a job, and settle down to start a family of their own. Instead, on this night, their dreams were shattered when more than 400 heavily armed police officers stormed their homes in the Greater Toronto Area. Doors were broken, furniture was destroyed, and women and children were pushed to the floor. These young Canadian men, with others were charged of being alleged members of a purported Islamic terrorist cell that was allegedly planning to explode some buildings in downtown Toronto! They were taken away from their scared and shattered families. Another suspect was arrested two months after the raid and released on bail few weeks after his arrest.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 09 December 2007 15:27 )
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