27 Facts About Adil Charkaoui

Adil Charkaoui is an imam Morocco-born Canadian citizen who was arrested by the Canadian government under a security certificate in May 2003.

Adil Charkaoui has been a Canadian citizen since July 2014.

Adil Charkaoui graduated with an MA from Universite de Montreal and is an Arabic-language teacher, who now styles himself as a sheik, and an imam.

Adil Charkaoui is married and has three children, and is a combat sport group leader, as well as a skilled backwoodsman.

Adil Charkaoui is the director at the Centre communautaire islamique Assahaba.

Adil Charkaoui is the President of the Quebec Collective Against Islamophobia, an advocacy rights group he established in 2013.

Adil Charkaoui refused to account for his whereabouts or reason for travel to Pakistan.

Moroccan authorities stated that Adil Charkaoui provided funds and resources to an Islamic insurgent group.

Adil Charkaoui was arrested under a security certificate in May 2003, which was co-signed by Solicitor General Wayne Easter, and Immigration Minister Denis Coderre.

Adil Charkaoui was detained without charge or trial in Riviere des prairies Detention Centre.

The Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui was formed in defense of his rights, with Coalition launching a campaign for his release.

Adil Charkaoui was released from prison on C$50,000 bail on 18 February 2005.

Not long after his release, Adil Charkaoui unsuccessfully tried to help Bloc Quebecois candidate Apraham Niziblian defeat Coderre in the 2006 Canadian federal election, saying:.

Adil Charkaoui opened on 22 February 2010 a $24.5 million lawsuit against the Canadian government in Quebec Superior Court in which he demanded compensation for wrongful arrest and detention.

Adil Charkaoui sent a letter asking for an apology, Canadian citizenship and compensation for lost income and legal fees after a federal judge quashed a security certificate against him.

Adil Charkaoui maintained that it was Islamophobia to ban their visit to Canada.

Adil Charkaoui rented classroom space at the nearby College de Rosemont, a Cegep.

Adil Charkaoui maintained that ISIS was a creature of the US government, and on his website he hyperlinks to other websites that offer praise of Osama bin Laden.

Adil Charkaoui rejects any interference of the wider community in which he lives on his religious rights; he finds this argument to be nefarious.

Adil Charkaoui has consistently denied the allegations against him and has challenged the legitimacy of the security certificate regime.

Canadian authorities and the Federal Court have refused to disclose the case against Adil Charkaoui, relying on provisions in the security certificate process that allow evidence to be kept from the defence and the public.

Adil Charkaoui's certificate has not undergone a court review and thus has not been upheld.

Adil Charkaoui has been at the centre of a public campaign against the extension of state power in the name of the "war on terror".

In June 2008, Adil Charkaoui managed to have the Supreme Court of Canada overturn as unconstitutional the security certificate.

The Crown pulled all of the wiretaps it used against Adil Charkaoui, and half of its human sources, leaving it with insufficient evidence to meet the security certificate's test that there is a "reasonable suspicion" that Adil Charkaoui is a threat to Canadian national-security.

In May 2013 federal prosecutors produced evidence that Adil Charkaoui may have been plotting a terrorist attack in the Montreal metro in 2002.

The memo mentions CSIS surveillance where Adil Charkaoui was spotted stealing valuables from parked cars.