Canada’s five security certificate detainees are all Arab Muslim men held for years

Evidence

The five men currently detained under security certificates are all Muslim men of Arab origin each of whom has been detained for three to seven years. The detainees – Hassan Almrei, Mohammed Mahjoub, Mohammed Jaballah, Mohamed Harkat, and Adil Charkaoui12 have served varying periods of time in solitary confinement, and each is detained without charge indefinitely. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 74

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete data substantiating the racial-profiling thesis of the book — the fact that all five are Arab Muslims is the empirical core of the ‘profile’ argument.
• SHARE: The five named detainees, held 3-7 years without charge, are a precise fact-set worth passing to anyone covering Canadian civil liberties.