Convicted Palestinian terrorist Mahmoud Mohammed Issa Mohammed will face a deportation hearing in Hamilton, Ontaric next Tuesday, a federal court in Toronto ruled Monday.
Justice James Jerome dismissed an application by Issa Mohammed’s lawyer, Lorne Waldman, to quash the deportation proceedings on grounds that his client’s constitutional rights were violated. Waldman said he would appeal, and Issa Mohammed, who has been free until now, may be taken into custody pending the outcome of the appeal.
He entered Canada in February 1987 on an immigrant visa he obtained from the Canadian Consulate in Madrid by concealing his conviction by a Greek court in 1970 of a machine gun and grenade attack on an Israeli airliner at Athens airport in 1968 in which one man was killed.
Although Canadian immigration authorities were alerted after his background was exposed, Issa Mohammed evaded detection at the Toronto airport.
Measures to deport him were undertaken quietly last October, but the Toronto Globe and Mail broke the story last January, to the embarrassment of the government.
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