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Diana Ralph said fighting injustice is in her blood.
Her father was a lawyer at the war-crimes
trials in Nuremberg after the Second World War. (CBC)
A Jewish lesbian couple in Ottawa have been quietly offering support to a suspected Islamic terrorist even though they hadn’t even met the man when they first got involved in a fight against Canada’s security certificates.
“We had never met him at [that] point. We didn’t know anything about him. But we knew that the situation wasn’t right,” Jean Hanson told CBC News.
Hassan Almrei’s “situation” is that he’s been held in jail for more than five years on a federal security certificate without being charged with anything, and without knowing what evidence the government has when it claims he was part of a forgery ring linked to al-Qaeda.
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