& AGAINST THE UN 1267 REGIME!
Project Fly Home is calling for a DAY OF ACTION
around international human rights day in solidarity with Abousfian Abdelrazik
and against the UN 1267 Regime. Join us!
The 1267 List is an international tool which
imposes a travel ban and an asset freeze on listed individuals and
organizations. The list is managed by the United Nations Security Council but
implemented by each UN member nation, such as Canada. It represents a new global
regime of political control, in which states cooperate across borders to impose
politically-motivated sanctions on individuals or organizations.
If you are in Montreal:
Saturday, 11 December 2010 at
1pm
Come join us in a march to various institutions in
Montreal complicit in the 1267 Regime
Meeting point: International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), 999
University St. (McGill metro or Square Victoria metro)
Outside Montreal: join us on December 10th or
11th!
We are calling on allies everywhere to organize a
delegation of people or protest to hand-deliver a letter of support for
Abdelrazik to a government office near you, demanding that Canada act
immediately to lift sanctions from Abdelrazik.
If you are interested in participating, please get
in touch! We can provide you with:
- background materials on Abdelrazik's
case as well as materials on the 1267 List in general;
- generic poster and
flyer design to use for promotion of public events;
- model letter to deliver
to Canadian government office; and
- model press release / event announcement.
We encourage our allies to think creatively while
planning their actions.
Background
Abdelrazik, a Canadian, was detained on the request
of Canada while on a trip to Sudan. Tortured over the course of several years,
he was released only to find that he had been placed on the 1267 List, which
provided Canada with a pretext to block his return to Canada. Trapped for a full
year in the Canadian embassy in Sudan after going public with his story,
Abdelrazik was finally able to return to Montreal in June 2009.
He remains in a prison without walls; the 1267
regime freezes his assets and imposes a travel ban. More than a year and a half later, Abdelrazik is still fighting for his
name to be delisted and for the Canadian officials responsible for his torture,
detention and exile in Sudan to be held responsible. Last year on December 10,
International Human Rights Day, Project Fly Home held a rally in downtown
Montreal demanding that Abdelrazik be delisted immediately. A year later, we are
forced to return to the streets because he remains on the 1267 List.
From his initial detention in Sudan to the
present, Abdelrazik has never been charged with any crime. Both Canada's
security agencies declared in 2007 that they have nothing against
Abdelrazik.
Abdelrazik's case is not unique. More than 450
people and organizations remain on the UN 1267 List and more are on a variety of
other terrorist or "no fly" lists. Many of these people, like Abdelrazik, have
never been charged with any crime. Some, like Abdelrazik, have been imprisoned
and tortured in the name of security.
The 1267 list is based upon vague accusations of
"association" and the presumption of guilt, rather than the presumption of
innocence. Listed individuals have no prior opportunity to challenge their
listing and no meaningful opportunity to get themselves off the list once they
have been added. Any Security Council member can veto a delisting request
without providing any reasons.
Project Fly Home demands an end to this list and
others like it, which internationalize state control and repression, which
promote racism and Islamophobia, and which encourage an atmosphere of fear and
paranoia.
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McGill.
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