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Parliament resumes
13/09/2012 - ICLMG's attention will be  focused on three main pieces of legislation before Parliament when it resumes its activities this coming Monday. If adopted, these bills will have significant negative repercussions on civil liberties and democratic rights in Canada.
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Omar Khadr
Omar Khadr to return to Canada
 13/09/2012 - While Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is not expected to formally communicate the decision for several weeks, The Huffington Post Canada has learned the Conservative Government will approve Khadr's transfer from the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay and plans are afoot to house the 25-year-old Canadian in a federal institution with a segregated space for his own safety. |
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Reflections on 9/11
11 years after 9/11, it's time to end the war on terror
Huffington Post 11/09/2012 - Instead of just improving intelligence and communications  among government agencies and going after the people who attacked us, the U.S. government embarked on two ill-defined wars, created a massive new Homeland Security bureaucracy, doubled the defense budget (not counting the cost of the wars), and created overseas prisons and military commissions to avoid the basic requirements of the United States Constitution.
Read moreAmerica's 9/11 response subverted our values, liberties
 The Detroit News 11/09/2012 - The United States government's reaction to the attacks of 9/11 some 11 years ago took the world into a tragic era of unnecessary wars and confrontation that destabilized allies and threatened vital long-term U.S. interests. Read moreOpinion: 9/11 - Muslims have faced an increasing level of violence
The Gazette 11/09/2012 - Eleven years ago today, I headed to my room  after attending classes at North America's oldest Islamic seminary, in Cornwall, Ont. I switched on the radio, as I usually would, to listen to the morning news. What I heard changed my world. Read more
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Rule of law
Civil Liberties Victory: Judge Halts Indefinite Detention Law
 Common Dreams 13/06/2012 - Judge Katherine Forrest issued a preliminary injunction against the provision in the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, earlier this year. On Wednesday, Judge Forrest made her ruling permanent, declaring that the NDAA cannot be used to hold people in indefinite military detention on suspicion of having "substantially supported" al-Qaeda or its allies.
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Al-Qaeda no 2 slain in Yemen, US says
 CBC News 10/09/2012 - The missile that killed al-Shihri, a Saudi national, was believed to have been fired by a U.S.-operated, unmanned drone aircraft, Yemeni officials said. The U.S. doesn't usually comment on such attacks although it has used drones in the past to go after al-Qaeda members in Yemen.
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Civil lawsuit on targeted killing filed against senior US officials
UN Special Rapporteur demands investigation into targeted killings
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Security Certificates
Mohamed Mahjoub terror case turns into indictment of CSIS Toronto Star 11/09/2012 - The hearing before  the Federal Court has become about the government itself - its rationale for issuing so-called security certificates against alleged terrorists, the quality of the evidence it uses and the amount of care taken by cabinet ministers who ultimately make these decisions. Read more Day says security certificate info may have come from torture CBC News 07/09/2012 -  Former Conservative public safety minister Stockwell Day says there were warnings that some of the information in a security certificate used to detain Mohamed Mahjoub, who has spent 12 years in jail and house arrest in Canada, may have come from the torture of the Egyptian-born man. |
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Guantanamo
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Criminalization of Dissent
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Terrorism
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Secrecy and National Security
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Aviation Safety
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ICLMG is now on Facebook!
We will post articles, press releases, urgent calls for action and events on our Facebook page. Please like it, send an invitation to your friends and/or share it on your wall!
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Letter to Minister Toews
on the use of torture-tainted information
Endorsed by ICLMG & 10 civil society organizations06/09/2012 - We are writing to you today to express our opposition to the government's directives that would allow for the use of information that was likely extracted through torture.
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Event
Canada's Guantanamo Bay: The history of Canadian detainees in the war on terror
September 25, 2012
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Vari Hall 1152A, York U
This event will include speakers from the Justice for Mahjoub Network, legal experts as well as Mr. Mahjoub himself. Facebook event
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