Zach LarkinsHARDSHIP
And the whiners just keep on coming.
Four Canadian terrorism suspects have been held in extreme isolation for almost a year. The four are among 18 men and boys from Toronto who were arrested in a blaze of national and international publicity last year. All were charged with various terrorism-related offences. In most of the cases, prosecutors asked for and were granted an order that forbids the co-accused from communicating with one another. And now they're crying about this. That order prompted the bosses at Maplehurst to lock up the dozen suspects, who did not get bail, in small isolation cells for more than 23 hours a day. Those conditions are now subject to a legal challenge based on the idea that solitary confinement amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
Lawyer Edward Sapiano, representing Yasim Mohamed, 25, who is accused of importing weapons to benefit a terrorist organization, calls the conditions of detention "inhumane." Defence lawyer David Kolinsky, whose client Zakaria Amara, 21, was denied bail, called the segregation cruel and a violation of religious freedoms because the inmates cannot pray together. I didn't think you would need a quorum before you prayed. I guess Muslims do. How silly of me to think one could actually pray by themselves.
William Naylor, acting for co-accused Shareef Abdelhaleen, called the segregation "psychological torture." "They're locked up in a metal cage with metal walls 23½ hours a day. Given the length of time that these men and boys are going to be there, by the time they come out, I don't know if they'll be basket cases if they don't do something about that."
Here's an idea. Take a lesson from our terrorist friends and just behead them. Problem solved.
Four Canadian terrorism suspects have been held in extreme isolation for almost a year. The four are among 18 men and boys from Toronto who were arrested in a blaze of national and international publicity last year. All were charged with various terrorism-related offences. In most of the cases, prosecutors asked for and were granted an order that forbids the co-accused from communicating with one another. And now they're crying about this. That order prompted the bosses at Maplehurst to lock up the dozen suspects, who did not get bail, in small isolation cells for more than 23 hours a day. Those conditions are now subject to a legal challenge based on the idea that solitary confinement amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
Lawyer Edward Sapiano, representing Yasim Mohamed, 25, who is accused of importing weapons to benefit a terrorist organization, calls the conditions of detention "inhumane." Defence lawyer David Kolinsky, whose client Zakaria Amara, 21, was denied bail, called the segregation cruel and a violation of religious freedoms because the inmates cannot pray together. I didn't think you would need a quorum before you prayed. I guess Muslims do. How silly of me to think one could actually pray by themselves.
William Naylor, acting for co-accused Shareef Abdelhaleen, called the segregation "psychological torture." "They're locked up in a metal cage with metal walls 23½ hours a day. Given the length of time that these men and boys are going to be there, by the time they come out, I don't know if they'll be basket cases if they don't do something about that."
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If not, are they being treated the same way as other suspects in prison are being treated?
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