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Border security
Border Security: Exploiting Immigrants for Canadian Reality TV
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Omar Khadr
Faulty info in file suggests he killed two Afghans
The Canadian Press 19/03/2013 - The federal government's file on Omar Khadr contains faulty information based on a memo prepared by a senior policy analyst for Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, internal documents obtained by The Canadian Press suggest. The memo, by Liliane  Keryluk, contains a series of statements reflecting Khadr's 2010 deal with a U.S. military commission in which he pleaded guilty to five war crimes, among them throwing a hand grenade that killed an American special forces soldier in Afghanistan. However Keryluk's memo - reprised in Toews' decision - goes even further than American military prosecutors. In particular, her memo asserts: "Mr. Khadr engaged U.S. military and coalition personnel with small-arms fire, killing two members of the Afghan militia force. He threw and/or fired grenades at nearby coalition forces, resulting in numerous injuries to them." Although someone inside the compound where Khadr was staying shot the two Afghans, nowhere in his signed admission, which was drafted by military commission prosecutors, is there any suggestion he personally killed them.
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Iraq: 10 years later
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Rule of law
US drone strikes in Pakistan violate country's sovereignty, UN says
The Huffington Post 15/03/2013 - The head of a U.N. team investigating casualties from U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan declared after a secret research trip to the country that the attacks violate Pakistan's sovereignty. Ben Emmerson, the U.N.  special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, said the Pakistani government made clear to him that it does not consent to the strikes - a position that has been disputed by U.S. officials. According to a U.N. statement that Emmerson emailed to The Associated Press on Friday, the Pakistani government told him it has confirmed at least 400 civilian deaths by U.S. drones on its territory. The statement was initially released on Thursday, following the investigator's three-day visit to Pakistan, which ended Wednesday. The visit was kept secret until Emmerson left. Read more
On April 16, let experts who did on-the-ground research in Pakistan testify about the drone strikes
The Huffington Post 19/03/2013 - On April 16, the Constitution Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, is holding a hearing about U.S. drone  strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia: about their Constitutionality, about their legality, about whether they are really in the interest of the United States, and about whether they are just and moral. This is historic. There's never been such a Congressional hearing before. That means that Durbin's hearing could be a historic opportunity for Americans to learn something about what is actually going on with the drone strike policy.
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Access to information
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Criminalization of dissent
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Freedom of press
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Freedom of speech
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Guantanamo
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Immigration and refugee rights
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National security
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Racism
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State secrecy
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Surveillance and privacy
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Terrorism
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War in Mali
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War on terror
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Miscellaneous
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About us
The ICLMG is a national coalition of thirty-nine Canadian civil society organizations that was established in the aftermath of the September, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. You will find in this News Digest news articles, events, calls to action and much more regarding national security, anti-terrorism, civil liberties and other issues related to the mandate and concerns of ICLMG and its member organizations. 
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Take action
Deportation is not entertainment! Cancel the reality show Border Security
Dozens of people were interrogated, arrested, and detained by the Canadian Border Services Agency. One of them was my husband. Shockingly, some of these traumatic experiences were filmed for a reality TV show "Border Security" which airs on National Geographic Channel. Sign the petition to urge National Geographic Channel and Force Four Entertainment, to cancel the show "Border Security" immediately.
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Take action
Donate to the legal fund for Mohamed Mahjoub
The security certificate process was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada in the 2007 Charkaoui ruling. A new certificate was issued against Mr. Mahjoub in February 2008 under this new process and he was forced to begin the process all over again. The Federal Court has not yet ruled on the 'reasonability' of the new certificate against him. In the context of these new security certificate proceedings, Mr. Mahjoub was subject to an unprecedented violation of his rights. The present fund-raising initiative is aimed at obtaining a permanent stay of the unfair proceedings against him in light of this unprecedented violation.
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Take action
"Hundred for Hassan" Campaign
Hassan will be put in prison if he does not pay his "creditor" - in this case, the Canadian government - $2,000 per month for the cost of his own surveillance. We invite you to be one of 100 people who care about due process and the presumption of innocence and oppose abusive extradition proceedings, by pledging $20 per month or more to share the cost of Dr. Diab's oppressive burden. This is our way of taking a public stand and saying, "This is just wrong."
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which the United States signed in 1945 after the bloodiest conflict in history. The Charter permits countries to use military force against another country only in self-defense or with Security Council permission. But the evidence indicates that the US-led invasion satisfied neither condition and is therefore a war of aggression, which constitutes a Crime Against Peace Ğ exactly the kind of war the Charter was meant to prevent.
