HPIM0469

Smail (crouching center) holds a bouquet of flowers for Djamel Meziani, who was deported before the trial even started. Louise (on the right) holds flowers for Mohamed Cherfi, who was also deported in early 2004. Mohamed, whose church sanctuary was forcibly violated by police, spent more than one year in prison before being accepted as a refugee by the United States (a status he and hundreds of other non-status Algerians were denied by the Canadian government).