Hassan Diab sera extradé en France

La Presse 13/11/2014 - La Cour suprême du Canada refuse d'entendre l'appel d'Hassan Diab. L'ancien professeur d'Ottawa pourrait donc être extradé rapidement vers la France, où il est soupçonné d'avoir participé à un attentat à la bombe sur une synagogue en 1980. La décision de la Cour pourrait signifier une extradition rapide, selon le Comité de soutien pour Hassan Diab. La seule étape restante dans le processus serait une autorisation du ministre fédéral de la Justice. M. Diab a toujours rejeté les allégations faites contre lui et contesté la crédibilité de la preuve utilisée dans le dossier d'extradition, dont une fiche d'inscription qui aurait été remplie par l'auteur de l'attentat dans un hôtel et qui ressemblerait à l'écriture du professeur. Ses partisans dénoncent le processus par lequel il sera jugé en France. « Les cours antiterroristes françaises permettent des déclarations de culpabilités basées sur des rapports de renseignement secrets, anonymes et d'une provenance inconnue, et dont il est impossible de tester la fiabilité », peut-on lire dans une déclaration du Comité de soutien pour Hassan Diab. « Un procès mené dans ces circonstances viole les principes de justice fondamentale et condamne un homme innocent. »

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The Canadian government wants to pay more people to creep your Facebook   

Motherboard 13/11/2014 - After reportedly already spending $20 million on media monitoring services, the Conservative-led Stephen Harper government is also looking to fill another tender for a "Social Media Monitoring" system to "meet the needs of Federal Government Departments and Agencies." It appears that the procurement request, released in January, has yet to be filled, while companies like IBM, IG Global Intelligence, and SecDev Cyber, among many others, have all made bids on the tender. A similar tender from 2013 was already awarded. The call for a social media monitoring system comes amidst public statements by the federal government earlier this year claiming it wasn't interested in the individual social media accounts of Canadians, instead in "aggregated" data that it argues would be useful without presenting privacy concerns. [...] To [Canadian Privacy Commissioner] Bernier, the practise was potentially illegal. Under Canadian law, all citizens retain a "privacy interest" in their own data. That also includes publicly accessible data that lives online, in much the same way a license plate can be seen in public: citizens expect their plates won't be tracked or surveilled without a warrant.

  

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UK intelligence agencies spying on lawyers in sensitive security cases 

The Guardian 07/11/2014 - The intelligence services have routinely been intercepting legally privileged communications between lawyers and their clients in sensitive security cases, according to internal MI5, MI6 and GCHQ documents. The information obtained may even have been exploited unlawfully and used by the agencies in the fighting of court cases in which they themselves are involved, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has been told, resulting in miscarriages of justice. Exchanges between lawyers and their clients enjoy a special protected status under the law. The Conservative MP David Davis, a former shadow home secretary, said past practice was to delete such material immediately if it was ever picked up. Amnesty International said the government was gaining "an unfair advantage akin to playing poker in a hall of mirrors". Their comments come after 28 extracts of internal intelligence policies showing how legally privileged material is handled by security officials were released to lawyers pursuing a claim through the IPT. The tribunal considers complaints against MI5, MI6 and GCHQ.

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