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30th May 2011, 07:48
FYI:
A Brampton man is suing the Canadian government alleging Canada’s spy agency launched a smear campaign against him, painting him as a terrorist and pedophile because he refused to be an informant.
The recently filed $10-million lawsuit comes after child pornography charges against Ayad Mejid, 48, were dropped when a Superior Court judge ruled his Charter rights were violated by agents with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
In October, Justice Jane Kelly ruled Mejid was threatened and intimidated into handing over his laptop to CSIS to prove he wasn’t the online jihadist they suspected. Instead, the agency says it found images of child pornography — evidence deemed inadmissible because it was obtained under the guise of national security, which constituted a “flagrant abuse” of his Charter rights.
In a statement of claim, filed in a Brampton Superior Court, the father of three alleges he “continues to suffer physically, psychologically and emotionally” as a result of CSIS’s “campaign of harassment.”
The “innuendo” that he was involved in terrorism and pedophilia “have destroyed Mr. Mejid’s reputation, cost him many of his former friends and associations and made him effectively unemployable,” according to the lawsuit.
“(Mejid) was respected by the community and (CSIS) wanted an influential person they could use, but you don’t get informants by intimidating, harassing and threatening them,” said Mejid’s lawyer Anser Farooq. “You don’t go around telling people, ‘Help us or else.’ ”
Mejid alleges CSIS agents acted negligently, breached their statutory duty, abused public office, intimidated him and intentionally inflicted mental suffering.
None of the allegations in the lawsuit has been proved in court. A statement of defence has not yet been filed. Neither the Department of Justice nor CSIS will comment because the matter is before the court.
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http://www.thestar.com/news/article/997508--brampton-man-sues-government-alleging-csis-harassed-him?bn=1
A Brampton man is suing the Canadian government alleging Canada’s spy agency launched a smear campaign against him, painting him as a terrorist and pedophile because he refused to be an informant.
The recently filed $10-million lawsuit comes after child pornography charges against Ayad Mejid, 48, were dropped when a Superior Court judge ruled his Charter rights were violated by agents with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
In October, Justice Jane Kelly ruled Mejid was threatened and intimidated into handing over his laptop to CSIS to prove he wasn’t the online jihadist they suspected. Instead, the agency says it found images of child pornography — evidence deemed inadmissible because it was obtained under the guise of national security, which constituted a “flagrant abuse” of his Charter rights.
In a statement of claim, filed in a Brampton Superior Court, the father of three alleges he “continues to suffer physically, psychologically and emotionally” as a result of CSIS’s “campaign of harassment.”
The “innuendo” that he was involved in terrorism and pedophilia “have destroyed Mr. Mejid’s reputation, cost him many of his former friends and associations and made him effectively unemployable,” according to the lawsuit.
“(Mejid) was respected by the community and (CSIS) wanted an influential person they could use, but you don’t get informants by intimidating, harassing and threatening them,” said Mejid’s lawyer Anser Farooq. “You don’t go around telling people, ‘Help us or else.’ ”
Mejid alleges CSIS agents acted negligently, breached their statutory duty, abused public office, intimidated him and intentionally inflicted mental suffering.
None of the allegations in the lawsuit has been proved in court. A statement of defence has not yet been filed. Neither the Department of Justice nor CSIS will comment because the matter is before the court.
source to continue
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/997508--brampton-man-sues-government-alleging-csis-harassed-him?bn=1