ICLMG News Digest - September 6, 2012
Summer Retrospective 

Several news items over the summer have exacerbated existing concerns or raised new ones in various areas related to national security and/or anti-terrorism. Most disappointing perhaps is the Harper government's ongoing reluctance to repatriate Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay, in spite of having agreed to it during the plea bargaining that led to Khadr's conviction in 2010.

Omar Khadr

 

US will release Omar Khadr tapes for Toews' review

  

CBC 14/08/2012 - American authorities are expected to hand videotapes of Omar Khadr to the Canadian government this week now that the head of the military commission has signed off on their release.
 

Torture

 

RCMP, CBSA get green light from feds' to use information extracted through torture

 

The Canadian Press 26∕08∕2012 - The Conservative government has quietly given Canada's national police force and the federal border agency the authority to use and share information that was likely extracted through torture.

 

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Read the directives obtained under the Access to Information Act

 
More news
No fly lists

 

Appeals cout revives challenge against US 'no fly' list 

 

Rule of law

 

Does the US government have the right to kill its own citizens? 

 

Canadian War Department drones on with summer splurge 

 

TrapWire

Oversight of security agencies

Surveillance and Privacy


 
ICLMG News Digest is here!
 
We are pleased to send you the first edition of the ICLMG News Digest. Every week we will publish and distribute a retrospective of major news items regarding national security, anti-terrorism and other issues related to the mandate and concerns of ICLMG and its member organizations. We hope you will find it useful and we encourage you to share it widely within your networks.
 

Petition launched by Romeo Dallaire: Bring back Omar Khadr

 

Canada must keep its word - and Minister Toews must authorize Omar Khadr's return without delay. A deal is a deal.

 

Press Release

 

Omar Khadr

ICLMG and Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada - The UN Committee against torture recommends transfer to Canada and redress for human rights violations.

 

Reports

 

Briefing to the Committee against Torture, 48th Session, May 2012 on the Omar Khadr case

 

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ICLMG Submission of Information to the Committee Against Torture (CAT) for the Examination of Canada's 6th Report


ICLMG in the media

 

Notes detail Canada-U.S. plan to track refugees, travellers

 

The Canadian Press 11∕07∕2012 - Canada and the U.S. have appreciably different ways of dealing with some kinds of refugees, said Roch Tasse of the Ottawa-based International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group.

 


Travellers faced rude officers, incorrect accusations by border employees

The Canadian Press 04/09/2012 - Roch Tasse, the national co-ordinator of ICLMG, said the complaints system should be shifted to an independent agency and more complete descriptions provided to the public.