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Legislative update:
Bill C-42
 ICLMG 20/09/2012 - Referred to as the Enhancing Royal Canadian Mounted Police Accountability Act, Bill C-42 was debated and passed at 2nd reading stage on September 19. The bill, introduced in Parliament last June, will now be referred to the Public Safety Committee for examination.
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Rendition to torture
Italian court affirms convictions of 23 Americans in CIA case
The Associated Press 19/09/2012 - Italy's highest criminal court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of 23  Americans in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect as part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program. The ruling marks the final appeal in the first trial anywhere in the world involving the CIA's practice of abducting terror suspects and transferring them to third countries where torture is permitted.
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Monitoring of Security Agencies
Top spy dismisses federal commission's call for more human rights accountability
The Canadian Press 17/09/2012 - In a newly  declassified memo, CSIS director Dick Fadden dismisses the Canadian Human Rights Commission's recommendation that national security agencies do more to ensure they are not taking part in racial profiling or other objectionable practices.
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Omar Khadr
Update: Khadr maybe to return to Canada soon
 La Presse 14/09/2012 - The Harper government has sent mixed messages on this issue yesterday. A story published on the website of the Canadian Huffington Post reported that Mr. Khadr would be repatriated before winter. But the Prime Minister's Office was quick to deny this information. |
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North American Security Perimeter
Plan to have US agents on Canadian soil 'on hold': Government
Embassy 20/09/2012 - The Harper government's plan to permit United States law enforcement agents to pursue suspects across the land border and onto Canadian soil is "on hold" while legal issues are resolved, the government says. The program, part of the 2011 perimeter plan between Canada and the United States that is reshaping the two nations' cross-border trade, security, and policing, was supposed to be tested through two pilot projects by the summer of 2012.
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Rule of law
US judge temporarily allows enforcement of anti-terrorism indefinite detention law
 The Associated Press 18/09/2012 - A U.S. appeals judge has temporarily allowed enforcement of a law that permits the indefinite detention of people believed to have supported terrorists, despite a judge's claim that it could infringe on First Amendment rights to freedom of expression.
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US Government Files Emergency Appeal of NDAA Decision
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Reflections on terrorism
How the war on terror is a war of terror
Al Jazeera 11/09/2012 - Drawing on intellectual and political history of different regions of the world, in a two-part series, Irfan Ahmad discusses the fallacy of and politics behind  the current consensus on what constitutes terrorism. He shows how the dominant definition of terrorism as act of violence by non-state actors to induce political change is conceptually flawed and demonstrates how terror has historically been important to most ruling elites and states across time. Based on diverse examples from India, the US, Israel, Indonesia and elsewhere, to this end, the author also shows how the watertight distinction between state and non-state actors is fragile and unsustainable.
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Anti-terrorism Laws
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Surveillance and Privacy
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Biometrics
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Campaign
Benamar Benatta Canada's first rendition case
ICLMG - Last week marked the 11th anniversary of Canada's first post-9/11 rendition to torture (others followed). Relying on religious and racist profiling, Canada falsely labeled Algerian refugee Benamar Benatta a 9/11 suspect without any evidence, leading to Benamar being illegally transferred, detained, and tortured in the United States for five years. Now back in Canada as a refugee, Benamar is seeking an apology, compensation, and accountability.
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Watch the interview with Benamar Benatta, still struggling for justice and a new life in the face of a Canadian government that admits culpability in internal documents but refuses to apologize.
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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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