vincent Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 TORONTO, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- An Egyptian terrorism suspect held in Canada is in the 76th day of a hunger strike.Mohammad Mahjoub, who has been in detention for five years, is protesting the conditions of his incarceration at the Metro West Detention Center in Toronto, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported. Mahjoub's wife, Mona Elfouli, and 40 supporters held a protest Monday outside the Ontario Legislature. Mahjoub's hunger strike protests lack of medical treatment in detention, including treatment for hepatitis C, which he contracted in jail. "The prison is taking an unnecessarily punitive approach," Elfouli said. "They are refusing his medical treatment for security reasons. They're killing him slowly." Mahjoub is being held under a terrorism certificate, a controversial Canadian procedure that allows non-citizens considered security threats to be deported. While he worked as a laborer on a farm owned by Osama bin Laden in the Sudan, Mahjoub denies any terrorist ties and says he would be tortured if returned to Egypt. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaLiVa Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 It's not a hunger strike! It's part of his religion! :rolleyes: :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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