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Un mémo américain disculperait Omar Khadr
La Presse Canadienne 03/07/2014 - Un mémorandum tenu secret dans le passé jette des doutes sur les motifs légaux qui ont permis aux autorités américaines d'accuser le Canadien Omar Khadr de terrorisme. Le mémo émanant du département américain de la Justice traite de l'implication de civils de l'agence américaine de renseignements, la CIA, dans des attaques  meurtrières de drones de la Défense américaine. Or, des avocats d'Omar Khadr soutiennent qu'un passage de ce mémo rejette toute base légale justifiant la mise en accusation du jeune homme. Il écrit aussi que les condamnations qui ont été prononcées contre lui par un tribunal militaire de la base américaine de Guantanamo Bay devraient être écartées sans délai. Le texte du mémorandum demande aussi si le gouvernement du Canada savait que ces condamnations étaient sans valeur lorsqu'il a accepté de rapatrier Omar Khadr au pays, en septembre 2012. |
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Libertés civiles et démocratie
Civil liberties and democracy
'Outraged', UN experts urge Egypt to overturn largest confirmed mass death verdict
UN News 30/06/2014 - The credibility and integrity of the Egyptian justice system has become "deeply compromised", a group of United Nations human rights experts today said, urging the Government to impose a moratorium on the death penalty and to offer new and fair trials for 183 people whose death sentences have been confirmed. "The  imposition of mass death sentences following blatantly unfair trials and for crimes that may not be punishable by death constitutes a staggering violation of international human rights law," the UN independent experts said. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called the ruling the largest mass death sentence to be confirmed in Egypt in recent history.Read more - Lire plus
Canadians imprisoned abroad: There are more of them than you think
rabble.ca 27/06/2014 - There's something about a Canadian passport that offers its owner a degree of confidence. After all, in the hierarchy of citizenships, Canada ranks near the top. A Canadian passport can get you into 170 countries without a visa. But it can't get you out of jail; even if it's clear that you've been wrongfully accused. Along with the widely publicized sentencing of a Canadian journalist in Egypt, several other  Canadians are currently being held abroad under dubious circumstances and critics say the Canadian government has repeatedly let them down. "Over the past decade a growing number of Canadian citizens and permanent residents have experienced serious human rights violations in other countries, while imprisoned by governments or held by armed groups," says Amnesty International on its website. "The Canadian government has, in some cases, refused to intervene or done so minimally. In other cases, Canada's intervention has simply been rebuffed by the foreign government." Meet three of these Canadians imprisoned abroad: Bashir Makhtal in Ethiopia, Husseyin Celil in China, and Mohamed Fahmy in Egypt. Read more - Lire plus
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Citoyenneté, immigration et droits des réfugié.es
Citizenship, immigration & refugee rights
Rick Salutin - Hello, you must be going: government waters down Canadian citizenship
The Toronto Star 30/06/2014 - Sorry to interrupt the sentiment of Canada Day - that's sentiment in a good way - but I'd like to talk about the gritty-legal, versus the emotional-poetic part of being Canadian: citizenship. Citizenship is the outer garment of being Canadian, and the government has just now seriously diminished it. On what grounds can some minister or bureaucrat de-citizenize and exile you? It's no longer because you simply lied on an application. It has to do with vague, shifting matters of loyalty and terrorism. If  you've been convicted of a loyalty violation and received a life term, or of something "terrorism-related" and got five years or more, you can be banished. These are notoriously unstable, politicized categories. So just like that, we're on two slippery slopes: expanding the categories of Canadians who can be stripped; and expanding the grounds for stripping them. It's at any majority government's discretion. Now we're in a bizarre situation where Egypt's brutal military tyranny has just sentenced dual Canadian-Egyptian journalist Mohamed Fahmy to seven years on fabricated "terror-related" grounds, but at least they aren't going to lift his citizenship. And our own government can, here, now. Will no one rescue us from this idiocy? Must it be the Supreme Court yet again? Read more - Lire plusCase of Mohamed Fahmy shows failing of new citizenship rules |
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Autres nouvelles - More news
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Airplane security
Sécurité en avion
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Anti-terrorist legislation
Législation antiterroriste
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Criminalization of dissent
Criminalisation de la dissidence
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Drones
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Guantanamo
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Guerre au terrorisme
War on terror
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Islamophobie
Islamophobia
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Mass surveillance around the world
Surveillance globale dans le monde
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Primauté du droit
Rule of law
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Terrorism cases
Procès pour terrorisme
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Les opinions exprimées ne reflètent pas nécessairement les positions de la CSILC - The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the positions of ICLMG
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Action
Free Khaled Al-Qazzaz
Khaled Al-Qazzaz has been detained without charge for almost a year in Egypt. Download and print the postcards below asking John Baird, Canadian Minister of  Foreign Affairs, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper to call the President of Egypt and demand that Khaled Al-Qazzaz be immediately released and reunited with his family. |
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Action
Egypt must release journalists and protect freedom of expression
Send a message to Minister of Justice Nayer Abdel-Moneim Othman calling on the Egyptian authorities to release Mohamed Fahmy and his Al Jazeera colleagues immediately and unconditionally.
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Action
Egypte - Arrêtez cette exécution de masse - Stop the mass execution
En Égypte, une parodie de justice vient de condamner à mort 528 personnes. C'est certainement la plus grande décision d'exécution de masse de notre siècle, et un seul homme peut arrêter ce massacre.
Sign and share the petition now!
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Action
Signez la déclaration Protéger notre vie privée maintenant
Le gouvernement est sur le point d'adopter le projet de loi C-13 qui assure une immunité aux entreprises de télécommunications lorsque celles-ci donnent nos informations privées aux autorités, même quand ces dernières n'ont pas de mandat.
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Action
Donate to the
We Are Jose campaign!
Jose and Ivania Figueroa came to Canada as refugees from El Salvador in 1997, and have since raised a family here. Jose has had to fight an unjust deportation order for the past four years, and was forced to seek sanctuary in a local church so as not to be separated from his family. Let's raise enough money to cover their legal costs and give them hope that they will not be torn apart!
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What is the News Digest? Qu'est-ce que la Revue de l'actualité?
The News Digest is ICLMG's weekly publication of news articles, events, calls to action and much more regarding national security, anti-terrorism, and civil liberties. The ICLMG is a national coalition of thirty-eight Canadian civil society organizations that was established in the aftermath of the September, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. +++
La revue de l'actualité est notre publication hebdomadaire de nouvelles, d'évènements, d'appels à l'action, et beaucoup plus, entourant la sécurité nationale, la lutte au terrorisme, et les libertés civiles. La CSILC est une coalition nationale de 38 organisations de la société civile canadienne qui a été créée suite aux attentats terroristes de septembre 2001 aux États-Unis.
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