Articles tagged with: Torture
From Amnesty International
MILAN, ITALY – The convictions of US and Italian intelligence agents for their involvement in the abduction of Usama Mostafa Hassan Nasr (better known as Abu Omar) mark a step toward accountability for …
By Scott Horton
“When the history of this distinguished court is written, today’s majority decision will be viewed with dismay,” writes Guido Calabresi, the former Yale Law dean and a man widely viewed as the most …
Court Refuses to Hold U.S. Officials Accountable for Complicity in Torture Abroad
CONTACT: press@ccrjustice.org
November 2, 2009, New York – Today, a federal Court of Appeals dismissed Canadian citizen Maher Arar’s case against U.S. officials for …
TORONTO STAR EXCLUSIVE: Classified photos show Toronto-born Omar Khadr lying buried and hurt in a trench during a firefight in Afghanistan that killed a U.S. commando. His lawyers say that proves he couldn’t have thrown the lethal grenade
By Jim Bronskill
OTTAWA — A dispute rages over secret portions of an inquiry report on the overseas torture of three Canadians one year after release of the document, which criticizes the actions of security …
By Andy Worthington
Well, that took a while. Nearly a year after George W. Bush’s Republican party was voted out of office, and at least five years after reports first surfaced that music was being …
By Andrew Duffy, The Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — The Canadian government says it bears no legal responsibility for the detention and torture in Syria of Ottawa’s Abdullah Almalki and will not compensate him for his ordeal.
Almalki, …
Americans want, and need, to move on from the debate over torture in Iraq and Afghanistan and close this tragic chapter in our nation’s history. Prosecuting those responsible could tear apart a country at war. …
By Jim Bronskill
The federal government denies responsibility for the overseas imprisonment and torture of three Canadians, despite a commission of inquiry report that parcelled out blame to CSIS, the RCMP and Foreign Affairs.
In newly filed …
The analysis and argument in this excellent and forceful essay from Britain could just as well apply to Canada (and several other members of the ‘coalition of the willing’), …
By Reem Bahdi
Once again, we must question whether Canadian officials facilitated the overseas detention and torture of Arab Muslim men.
Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Canadian citizen, was arrested in Sudan in 2003 while visiting his ailing mother. …
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
April 29, 2009 at 2:00 AM EDT
His name is Abousfian Abdelrazik, but it could as easily be Joseph Smith, a Canadian Everyman. He is a citizen denied the right to return …
Federal Court Permits Landmark ACLU Rendition Case To Go Forward Government Cannot Claim State Secrets To Deny Torture Victims Day In Court
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 28, 2009 CONTACT: Rachel Myers, (212) 549-2689 …
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that three memos written by the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel in the Bush administration authorizing specific interrogation techniques amounting to …
