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July 13, 2006
Canada: Muslim Teen Terror Suspect Claims For Bail
News from the Canadian Press relates that the youngest of the seventeen Muslims accused of terror involvement in Canada, was at a bail hearing yesterday.
The sixteen-year old, who cannot be named on account of his age, following the Youth Criminal Justice Act, came into court in shackles, wearing trainers without laces and baggy jeans.
Arrested at the beginning of June, when four other youths and 12 adults were also taken in, the youth spent his first weeks in custody in solitary confinement in a jail in Hamilton, but has since been transferred to a youth detention facility.
This is the second time that the boy has tried to obtain bail. Last month a justice of the peace denied his first bail application. Canadian Press have said that he is now before Ontario Court Justice Gary Trotter, who has written a textbook on Canadian bail law.
The youth's lawyer, Michael Block, said outside court: "I can't think of a more significant bail hearing." He said the judge 'knows more about bail than anyone", and said his client had a "good shot" at gaining release.
The youth's parents, who were in court, are said by Block to be distressed, and that they "have no sympathy for the jihadist cause." He said: "You have leaders, followers and the potential recruits...It may well be that the evidence, at the end of the day, finds he was merely a potential recruit."
Sadly, we will not know yet, as the media is banned from reporting on evidence presented within the courtroom. The bail hearing has been continuing today.
Following the arrests of June 2 and 3, twelve men and five individuals under 18 were charged with participating in terrorist-related offences. Seven of these face an additional charge of attempting to obtain explosives, and plotting to bomb targets in Ontario.
In a previous hearing last month, a lawyer had stated outside the court that there had been a plan to storm the parliament building in Ottowa and to take hostages, and that there had been a plan to behead the Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at July 13, 2006 6:52 PM
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