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Omar Khadr’s defender sees ‘no way’ for fair trial – Nathan Whitling argues that Bush-era military tribunals leave no room for an impartial verdict for a Canadian he believes was tortured
April 26, 2010 – 2:29 pm | No Comment
Omar Khadr’s defender sees ‘no way’ for fair trial – Nathan Whitling argues that Bush-era military tribunals leave no room for an impartial verdict for a Canadian he believes was tortured

By Paul Koring
In shackles and flanked by military guards, Omar Khadr will be taken this week from the razor-wire-ringed Guantanamo Bay prison compound where he has spent almost a third of his life to a …

Ottawa knew of alternative prison transfer proposal – Memo shows government was briefed on NATO campaign to create stronger safeguards for detainees
March 14, 2010 – 10:35 am | No Comment
Ottawa knew of alternative prison transfer proposal – Memo shows government was briefed on NATO campaign to create stronger safeguards for detainees

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 …

Waterboarding for dummies – Internal CIA documents reveal a meticulous protocol that was far more brutal than Dick Cheney’s “dunk in the water”
March 11, 2010 – 12:51 pm | No Comment
Waterboarding for dummies – Internal CIA documents reveal a meticulous protocol that was far more brutal than Dick Cheney’s “dunk in the water”

By Mark Benjamin
Self-proclaimed waterboarding fan Dick Cheney called it a no-brainer in a 2006 radio interview: Terror suspects should get a “a dunk in the water.” But recently released internal documents reveal the controversial “enhanced …

Canadian spies interrogated Afghan prisoners, insiders reveal – Security experts stunned by CSIS’s role in questioning Taliban fighters who may have been tortured
March 8, 2010 – 11:59 am | No Comment
Canadian spies interrogated Afghan prisoners, insiders reveal – Security experts stunned by CSIS’s role in questioning Taliban fighters who may have been tortured

By Murray Brewster and Jim Bronskill
Officers of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service have played a crucial and long-standing role as interrogators of a vast swath of captured Taliban fighters, The Canadian Press has learned.
The spies …

Maher Arar Launches New Online National Security Magazine and Appeals to the Supreme Court
February 27, 2010 – 8:05 am | No Comment
Maher Arar Launches New Online National Security Magazine and Appeals to the Supreme Court

By Faisal Kutty
The second issue of Prism Magazine is now available online. The not-for-profit journal launched last month by Maher Arar describes itself as a “security practices monitor”.
The journal has an impressive list …

Binyam Mohamed torture evidence must be revealed, judges rule – Court of appeal ruling compels British government to disclose what MI5 knew of refugee’s treatment in Guantánamo Bay
February 10, 2010 – 6:44 pm | No Comment
Binyam Mohamed torture evidence must be revealed, judges rule – Court of appeal ruling compels British government to disclose what MI5 knew of refugee’s treatment in Guantánamo Bay

By Richard Norton-Taylor
Three of Britain’s most senior judges have ordered the government to reveal evidence of MI5 complicity in the torture of British resident Binyam Mohamed – unanimously dismissing objections by David Miliband, the foreign …

US magazine claims Guantánamo inmates were killed during questioning – Harper’s investigation quotes camp staff who say suspects died in interrogation and their deaths were made to look like suicides
January 19, 2010 – 4:22 pm | No Comment
US magazine claims Guantánamo inmates were killed during questioning – Harper’s investigation quotes camp staff who say suspects died in interrogation and their deaths were made to look like suicides

By Ian Cobain
US government officials may have conspired to conceal evidence that three Guantánamo Bay inmates could have been murdered during interrogations, according to a six-month investigation by American journalists.
All three may have been suffocated …

Security Certificates: Finding the right balance
December 16, 2009 – 3:10 pm | No Comment
Security Certificates: Finding the right balance

By Omar Alghabra
The matter of “Security Certificate” is garnering news headlines again. Today, the federal court struck down a certificate against a Mississauga resident.
Security Certificate is a deportation instrument that the government can employ to …

RCMP probes federal role in Arar torture – Arar case raises possibility of similar action on Afghan abuses
December 11, 2009 – 9:09 am | One Comment
RCMP probes federal role in Arar torture – Arar case raises possibility of similar action on Afghan abuses

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 …

The record and the falsehoods – The government’s insistence it knew nothing about the torture of Afghan detainees becomes more and more tenuous
December 8, 2009 – 2:01 pm | No Comment
The record and the falsehoods – The government’s insistence it knew nothing about the torture of Afghan detainees becomes more and more tenuous

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 …

Colvin’s testimony true: former Afghan MP
December 1, 2009 – 4:54 pm | No Comment
Colvin’s testimony true: former Afghan MP

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 …

Canadians not buying government denial of detainee claims – Survey finds them twice as likely to believe whistleblower Richard Colvin
November 25, 2009 – 2:23 pm | No Comment
Canadians not buying government denial of detainee claims – Survey finds them twice as likely to believe whistleblower Richard Colvin

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 …

Globe and Mail Editorial: Speaking out, despite the cost – Thank goodness for civil servants like diplomat Richard Colvin who breach the walls of government secrecy and obfuscation and speak out for principle
November 25, 2009 – 2:02 pm | No Comment
Globe and Mail Editorial: Speaking out, despite the cost – Thank goodness for civil servants like diplomat Richard Colvin who breach the walls of government secrecy and obfuscation and speak out for principle

Editorial by The Globe and Mail
The diplomat Richard Colvin was Canada’s eyes and ears in Afghanistan, and there is no reason to believe he has acted with anything but integrity in his public testimony …

Canada’s torture trials – Who knew about transferring detainees and when?
November 24, 2009 – 3:19 pm | Comments Off
Canada’s torture trials – Who knew about transferring detainees and when?

By Enzo Di Matteo
What is it about Canada and torture?
Revelations this week by a high-ranking diplomat that Canadian troops handed prisoners over to Afghan authorities to be tortured has come as a shock to the …