Adil Charkaoui is an immigrant from Morocco who settled in Canada, studied, worked, started a family, then arrested and imprisoned for two years under a security certificate saying he posed a danger. Neither he or his lawyer are allowed to see the evidence against him.

Now, the CBC is reporting that some documents against Charkaoui have been leaked. Charkaoui insists that this is an intentional smear campaign against.

His lawyer Johanne Doyon agrees, saying:

"This is a document that is supposed to be secret," she said. "We are
flabbergasted that there was a CSIS leak. And we wonder what the real
objective of this leak actually is."

This is exactly the same as what happened in Maher Arar's case, where leaks were used to discredit him in the media, and try to silence him and not pursue an inquiry.

Resources

• Adil Charkaoui on Wikipedia.
• Coalition for justice for Adil Charkaoui. A web site set up for a fair and transparent review of the security certificate. Has lots of document.