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T.O. terror detainee ends hunger strike

By CP


TORONTO -- An Egyptian refugee and suspected terrorist has ended his
79-day hunger strike in a Toronto jail after the provincial government
agreed to meet his demands for medical treatment.

Mohammad Mahjoub was using the prolonged strike to protest conditions
at the Metro West Detention Centre.

Mahjoub, 44, said he has been denied proper medical care and visits
from his family.

The province issued a written statement late Friday promising medical
specialists would be sent to assess Mahjoub's health problems,
including a knee injury and Hepatitis C, which he contracted in jail.

"I'm glad to hear that Mohammad will finally be able to eat again
because of this agreement, but it concerns me deeply that it took the
provincial government 80 days to come to it," said Matthew Behrens,
spokesman for the Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada.


Mahjoub, who was granted refugee status in 1996, is one of five men
being held as a suspected terrorist under federal security
certificates. He has been in solitary confinement at the detention
centre for two years.