The Toronto 18: Justice Delayed...

The government case is being inordinately delayed. Publication ban, lack 0f disclosure and public debate and scrutiny makes one wonder if this is happens in a third world autocracy or a democratic nation like Canada.

History will record June 2, 2006 as the day when police arrested members of what they claimed was Canada's first homegrown Islamic terrorist conspiracy. But in a modest middle-class section of Oakville, Rukhsana Gaya – then a department store cosmetics manager – remembers that day as the moment her family's life was shattered. For the families - fear and bewilderment - Thomas Walkom

This page is dedicated to 18 local Torontonians who have been arrested, accused and 'charged' since June 2nd, 2006: 3 are kept in solitary confinement at the Don Jail for almost 2 years; 7 are are kept in detention without bail at Maplehurst; one youth is awaiting trial; 3 youth have their charges dismissed / stayed; 4 of the 14 young adults are out on unusually strict bail conditions. All have been or are currently being deprived of their basic human rights.
Follow their stories here...


There is an advocacy group on Facebook




And another parent's perspective in this site.