Asad Ansari is one of 18 people accused and detained on June 2 and June 3, 2006, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the Toronto terrorism arrests.
He was 21 years old at the time of his arrest, and spent 3 years and 3 months in pre-trial detention, of which 15 months straight were spent in solitary confinement.
On August 28, 2009, he was granted bail.
Ansari was being tried simultaneously with Steven Vikash Chand and Fahim Ahmad in Brampton until Ahmad pleaded guilty.[1]
He and Chand were both found guilty on June 23, 2010 of knowingly participating in a terrorist group. The court heard that he had attended a winter training camp in Washago, Ontario, in December 2005. They are the only members of the 18 to be tried by jury rather than by a lone judge.[2]
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http://www.thestar.com/article/688225
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| Charges dropped |
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| Suspects who were found guilty |
Nishanthan Yogakrishnan, Saad Khalid, Saad Gaya, Ali Dirie, Zakaria Amara, Amin Durrani, Shareef Abdelhaleem, Jahmaal James, Fahim Ahmad, Steven Chand, Asad Ansari
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 American cell |
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| Defense attorneys |
Paul Burstein, Breese Davies, Dennis Edney, Anser Farooq, Rocco Galati, David Kolinsky, Donald McLeod, David Mercury, Faisal Mirza, Michael A. Moon, Edward Sapiano, Paul Slansky, Peter Zaduk
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 CSIS informants |
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| Other |
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People associated with terrorism who have lived in Canada |
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| al-Jihad |
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| al-Qaeda |
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| Khadr family |
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| Afghan Insurgency |
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| Iraqi Insurgency |
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| Chechnya |
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| Groupe Islamique Armé |
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| Toronto 18 |
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| Held at Guantanamo Bay |
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| Other |
Abderraouf Jdey, Faker Boussora, Bashir Makhtal†, Kassem Daher°, Mustafa Krer, Momin Khawaja, Abdullahi Afrahǂ, Amr Hamedǂ, Huseyincan Celil†, Idriss†, Hassan Almrei, Assem Hammoud, Moussa Mohamed Kalifa, Said Namouh, Mohammad Ashraf Siddiqui, Fahad al-Shehri, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, Abdelrahman Fakhri Abou el-Ila
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| Cleared of wrongdoing |
Nageeb al-Hadi, Benamar Benatta, Abdullah Almalki, Maher Arar, Arwad al-Boushi, Ahmad Abou El-Maati, Muayyed Nureddin, Abdellah Ouzghar, Liban Hussein, Qayyum Jamal, Yasim Mohamed, Ahmad Ghany, three young offenders with unreleased names, Sohail Qureshi, Amine Mezbar, 24 Pakistani immigrants, Abousfian Abdelrazik, Arward Al-Bousha, Kassim Mohamed, Adil Charkaoui, Aabid Khan
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† denotes currently imprisoned, ° denotes legal release after serving a sentence, ǂ denotes deceased subjects
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