The Globe And Mail Newspaper Editorial
Barring the doors of a hearing on whether Canada violated international laws related to torture goes against this country’s history and basic democratic norms. There is a …

By STEVEN CHASE
OTTAWA — The Harper government has always insisted it heard no warnings of torture risks facing Afghan detainees in 2006, but documents show that in the same year it was carefully …

By Murray Brewster

OTTAWA — A former governor of Kandahar who is accused of personally torturing Afghans might have been removed from office as far back as 2006 if Canadian officials hadn’t defended him, according to …

By Tonda MacCharles
OTTAWA  –The RCMP has already launched an unprecedented probe of allegations that Canadian government officials turned a blind eye to torture in the past, raising the possibility it could act again on the …

Editorial in The Globe and Mail

The record speaks for itself on what the Canadian government knows, or should have known, about the torture of Afghan detainees. It speaks far louder than the falsehoods from the …

From CBC News
Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin’s claim that detainees transferred by Canadians to Afghan prisons were likely tortured is true and an “open secret” in her country, a former Afghan MP said in Ottawa on …

November 27, 2009
Greetings everyone,
You will find below a letter from ICLMG addressed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper calling for the establishment of a Public Inquiry into the case of Afghan detainees transferred by Canada to …

By Joan Bryden
Canadians aren’t buying the Harper government’s assertion that there’s no credible evidence Afghan detainees were tortured, a new poll suggests.
Indeed, The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey indicates Canadians are twice as likely to believe …

By Jane Taber
The word “cover-up” is just on the tip of Alex Neve’s tongue. But in a morning press conference, Amnesty International’s Canadian chief wouldn’t go as far to characterize the Afghan detainee situation as …