FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, August 20, 2025 1:45 p.m.
Please see this open letter, signed by hundreds of concerned groups across Ontario and Canada, to the Crown Attorney’s Office that recently decided to withdraw charges against an individual who was filmed attacking a Muslim woman earlier this year in Ottawa.
On Thursday, October 31, Crown prosecutors dropped assault and harassment charges against Lorna Bernbaum, 74, after she pulled the hijab of pro-Palestinian demonstrator, Hayfa Abdelkhaleq.
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