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Revue de l'actualité - News Digest
10 juillet 2014 - July 10, 2014 
Omar Khadr 

Globe editorial: Every Canadian deserves justice. Even Omar Khadr

The Globe and Mail 09/07/2014 - Omar Khadr is often referred to as a convicted war criminal and murderer. In a sense, he is: In 2010, he pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, spying and providing material support to terrorism, along with attempted murder and murder. But there's a giant, glowing asterisk attached to all of that. The American military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay that convicted Mr. Khadr was not a normal court. It was a pantomime of justice, removed from the normal American legal system, and relying on made-up rules and novel legal interpretations. The main evidence against him was a confession, obtained years earlier under what any reasonable person would describe as abuse or torture. And before he pled guilty, it was made clear that unless he did so, he faced a lifetime of detention without trial. He had at that point already spent nearly a decade in American custody, held in places that were for a time entirely removed from the realm of law, where abuse and torture were standard operating procedure. Mr. Khadr was sentenced by a kangaroo court, one worthy of a Middle Eastern dictatorship or Kafka short story. Or as the Alberta Court of Appeal put it this week, in drily damning language, "the legal process under which Khadr was held and the evidence elicited from him have been found to have violated both the Charter and international human rights law." The Supreme Court of Canada has also said as much.

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Lloyd Axworthy: In the Khadr case, politics can't be allowed to trump precedent

Omar Khadr en prison provinciale?

Le Devoir 09/07/2014 - Les espoirs d'Omar Khadr d'être transféré dans une prison provinciale n'auront duré que quelques heures. À peine la Cour d'appel de l'Alberta a-t-elle statué que, puisque condamné à une peine de jeune contrevenant, M. Khadr devait quitter le centre de détention fédéral où il se trouve, Ottawa a rétorqué qu'il n'en est pas question. Les conservateurs porteront la décision en appel. Condamné à huit ans de prison en 2010, en vertu d'une entente conclue avec les États-Unis s'il plaidait coupable, Omar Khadr est arrivé en sol canadien à l'automne 2012 pour y purger le reste de sa peine. Les autorités fédérales l'ont transféré dans un pénitencier fédéral pour adultes. Mais l'avocat de M. Khadr a rapidement intenté un recours, plaidant que son client avait été condamné en tant que jeune contrevenant. Car une peine de huit ans d'emprisonnement pour cinq infractions - notamment une pour le meurtre d'un soldat américain - ne pouvait qu'être une peine pour mineur, disait l'avocat Dennis Edney. À tout le moins, Omar Khadr, aujourd'hui âgé de 27 ans, devrait-il être transféré dans une prison provinciale, disait l'avocat. Le tribunal de première instance en Alberta a rejeté les arguments de Me Edney. Mais voilà que la Cour d'appel de l'Alberta vient de lui donner raison. « En résumé, la sentence de huit ans infligée à Khadr aux États-Unis aurait seulement pu être possible en tant que sentence pour mineur en vertu de la loi canadienne, et non pas pour adulte, si les infractions avaient été commises au Canada », ont tranché les trois juges, unanimes.

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Government to appeal ruling that Omar Khadr should be serving youth sentence
Libertés civiles et démocratie
Civil liberties and democracy 

Opinion: Canadian government failing Egypt's prisoners

Ottawa Citizen 08/07/2014 - For almost a year, the Canadian government has quietly supported the Egyptian regime in what Stephen Harper and John Baird have suggested is an aspirational journey to democracy. A quick assessment of the way the Egyptian regime treats journalists and civil servants will tell you otherwise. In any country, it is the treatment of journalists and civil servants by those in power that serves as a litmus test for how a country is treating its population at large. Journalists and civil servants drive the change required for a country's advancements in human rights. The injustices inflicted on them are a front-line indicator of the deeper, systemic injustices occurring as a whole. [...] Journalists and civil servants like Al-Qazzaz, whose health is reportedly deteriorating, are among the more than 22,000 imprisoned without charge since the July 3 coup last year. After the blatant violations of justice during the trial of Mohamed Fahmy and the outcry of the international community, the Canadian government must recognize the need for a far stronger position. It must be the voice to those who have spent their lives advocating for the voiceless. These are the values that Canada proudly espouses on the world stage. Now is the time to actively embody those values and demand the freedom of Mohamed Fahmy and Khaled Al-Qazzaz.

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Egypt life terms for Badie and 36 Brotherhood figures 
Profilage religieux
Religious profiling 

Meet the Muslim-American leaders the FBI and NSA have been spying on

The Intercept 09/07/2014 - The National Security Agency and FBI have covertly monitored the emails of prominent Muslim-Americans-including a political candidate and several civil rights activists, academics, and lawyers-under secretive procedures intended to target terrorists and foreign spies. According to documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the list of Americans monitored by their own government includes: Faisal Gill, a longtime Republican Party operative and one-time candidate for public office who held a top-secret security clearance and served in the Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush; Asim Ghafoor, a prominent attorney who has represented clients in terrorism-related cases; Hooshang Amirahmadi, an Iranian-American professor of international relations at Rutgers University; Agha Saeed, a former political science professor at California State University who champions Muslim civil liberties and Palestinian rights; and Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the country.

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Spied on for being Muslim? NSA targets named in Snowden leaks respond to U.S. gov't surveillance

Government spying on law-abiding public figures is tearing apart the fabric of our democracy, says OpenMedia following new revelations

Amnesty International USA: Surveillance of American Muslims underscores lack of safeguards

Civil rights organizations demand answers from White House on surveillance of Muslim leaders
Mass surveillance around the world
Surveillance globale dans le monde  

La NSA enfreindrait la loi américaine dans neuf cas d'espionnage sur dix

Le Devoir 07/07/2014 - L'agence américaine d'interception des communications NSA surveille beaucoup plus d'utilisateurs ordinaires d'Internet, y compris des Américains, que d'étrangers désignés légalement pour cibles, affirme samedi le Washington Post. Neuf détenteurs de comptes numériques sur 10 « ne sont pas des cibles désignées au préalable, mais prises dans le filet que l'agence a mis en place pour le compte de quelqu'un d'autre », précise le journal, au terme d'une enquête de quatre mois effectuée sur des données de la NSA fournies par l'ancien consultant de l'agence, Edward Snowden. La NSA n'est autorisée par la loi qu'à espionner des étrangers situés hors du territoire des États-Unis, sauf si elle a reçu un mandat spécifique. Ces gens sont des utilisateurs ordinaires d'Internet, qui habitent aux États-Unis ou ailleurs.

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Report: 9 out 10 caught in NSA dragnet are 'ordinary people'

UK moves to legalize mass surveillance: New bill would reinstate controversial law struck down for invading privacy of citizens

NSA whistleblowers' testimony electrifies Bundestag committee

Video: Bahamians react to NSA surveillance

Is there a second NSA leaker after Snowden?

France: Senators call for granting of asylum to Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden veut prolonger son séjour en Russie

Edward Snowden applies to extend stay in Russia, lawyer says

Julian Assange on aiding Snowden, Tiff w/ The Intercept & whether he'll ever leave embassy refuge

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange responds to Hillary Clinton: Fair U.S. trial for Snowden "not possible"
 
Autres nouvelles - More news
Airline security
Sécurité aérienne  
Anti-terrorist legislation
Législation antiterroriste 
Canada-US Beyond the Border
Plan d'action Par delà la frontière Canada-États-Unis 
Criminalization of dissent 
Criminalisation de la dissidence

Guantanamo 
Guerre au terrorisme
War on terror 
Irak
Iraq
Liberté de la presse      
Press Freedom 
No fly list       
Liste d'interdiction de vol 
Primauté du droit
Rule of law 
Renvoi vers la torture 
Rendition to torture 
Technologie et dissidence
Technology and dissent 
Terrorism cases
Procès pour terrorisme
Vie privée
Privacy
Miscellaneous
Divers  

 

 
CETTE SEMAINE / THIS WEEK
- Omar Khadr: Every Canadian deserves justice. Even Omar Khadr; Omar Khadr en prison provinciale?
- Civil liberties & democracy: Canadian government failing Egypt's prisoners
- Religious profiling: Meet the Muslim-American leaders the FBI and NSA have been spying on
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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
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.
 

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.

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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.

Speak out against the government's online spying Bill C-13


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.
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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.