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Législation antiterroriste
Anti-terror laws
Ottawa veut accroître le pouvoir des agences de sécurité
Radio-Canada 14/01/2015 - Selon des informations obtenues par CBC, la loi qui sera proposée dès la rentrée permettrait, par exemple, aux agences responsables de la sécurité nationale d'obtenir de l'information fournie lors d'une demande de passeport ou pour une déclaration de revenus. Présentement, en vertu de la loi sur la vie privée, les policiers doivent avoir un mandat de la cour. Le texte faciliterait par exemple les échanges entre le Service  canadien du renseignement de sécurité (SCRS) et la Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC) et permettrait également la détention d'individus soupçonnés d'extrémisme et l'imposition de conditions pour demeurer en liberté. [...] Le projet de loi pourrait soulever bien des inquiétudes chez les groupes de défense de droits et libertés. Plusieurs ont déjà indiqué que si on donne plus de pouvoir à la police, on doit aussi imposer plus de surveillance. On ne sait pas non plus jusqu'où ira le gouvernement.
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New counterterrorism bill to override certain privacy limits
New anti-terror laws could be 'slippery slope': U.S. expert
Ottawa Citizen 12/01/2015 - An American expert on radicalization warns that looming Canadian anti-terror legislation has the potential to imprison people who don't pose a threat to society, while existing laws may conflate radicalized thoughts with terrorist actions. The federal government will soon table a bill to allow for certain kinds of preventative arrests to thwart potential terror acts. "I think that's a very, very slippery slope, to be honest," said John  Horgan, director of the Center for Terrorism and Security Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Horgan has authored more than 70 publications on terrorism and political violence, including for the British government and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. "I think there is a real risk that we are confusing radicalization with terrorism. There are far more people that are radicalized than those who would ever become involved in terrorism," said Horgan. "There is profound risk in losing perspective."
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Anti-terror bill to focus on preventive arrests; possible border laws
Anti-terror bill means familiar tug-of-war for Harper
In Europe: First the calls for 'unity,' then the calls for 'more spy power'
In wake of Charlie Hebdo attack, let's not sacrifice even more rights
France - Le Patriot Act, une législation d'exception au bilan très mitigé
UK - David Cameron pledges anti-terror law for internet after Paris attacks
UK - Anti-terror bill a threat to academic freedom, MPs tell Theresa May
Why MI5 does not need more surveillance powers after the Paris attacks
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Liberté d'expression
Freedom of speech
Monia Mazigh: The false debate between freedom of expression and religious extremism
rabble.ca 09/01/2015 - After the deadly attack, many cartoonists reduced the event to a confrontation between an armed, bearded jihadist and a pen. A simple representation, yet it is both powerful and misleading. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, George W. Bush and many like-minded politicians and media outlets confined the attacks to a fight between evil (the "Islamic terrorists") and good (the United States and its allies), or between the free world (led by the United States) and oppression (led by Al-Qaeda and the Taliban). When Bush famously proclaimed "you are either with us or you're with the terrorists," he  truly believed that he had received a divine message to liberate Muslim countries from oppression. He consequently built all of his political and war strategies around this sort of "prophecy." Meanwhile, all the dissident voices that denounced this dangerous war were silenced, labelled anti-patriots, and accused of siding with the extremists (remember the "Taliban Jack" label satirically attributed to the late Jack Layton by the Harper government). Today, after many years of a failed "war on terror," numerous scandals about abuse of political power, torture and indefinite detention, people have come to realize that this dichotomy is false and that security for all can't be achieved without respect of human dignity for all. Read more - Lire plus
Using free speech as a cloak for anti-Muslim bigotry: Siddiqui
The Toronto Star 14/01/2015 - There can never be any justification for murdering provocateurs or innocents. Take down their killers, if we must. Or round up the accomplices and throw the book at them. That's a statement of the obvious after the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the murder of four Jews in Paris for no other reason than that they were Jews. So is the observation that the current proclamations of fidelity to free speech are riddled with ethical inconsistencies and reek of intellectual dishonesty. Free speech is not an unfettered right, just as my right to swing my arm stops at your nose. Free speech is circumscribed by laws of libel, hate and religious freedom. Also by self-restraint and public pressure, both reflective of our values. We in the media and book publishing business  routinely amend our words and axe them outright when lawyers tell us that what we've written may risk lawsuits. Most European nations adopted anti-hate laws post-Holocaust to curb anti-Semitism, and rightly so. France's is among the toughest. France also limits free speech with strict defamation and privacy laws. [...] France's anti-terrorism law severely curtails digital and other freedoms. On Tuesday, controversial comedian Dieudonné M'bala M'bala was arrested for "defending terrorism." [...] While Stephen Harper killed the anti-hate section of the Canadian Human Rights Act, he has retained the Criminal Code provision that prescribes up to two years in jail for spreading hate. He is also proposing new restrictions on free speech, to ban the glorification of terrorism and to insulate informants from public scrutiny. Many of the world leaders who gathered in Paris last week in solidarity either muzzle free speech themselves or are close allies of regimes that jail and torture those whose words they don't like. Harper's two favourite governments, Ukraine and Egypt, have the most journalists in jail at this time. Read more - Lire plusDieudonné arrêté par les autorités françaises sur le qui-viveParis attacks aftermath: French police arrest 54 people for 'defending or glorifying terrorism'France arrests a comedian for his Facebook comments, showing the sham of the West's "free speech" celebrationsI will grieve. I will laugh. But I am not Charlie.
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Réflexions sur la guerre au terrorisme
Reflections on the war on terror
The fog of our 'war' with jihadists: Tim Harper
The Toronto Star 13/01/2015 - There doesn't seem to be anything particularly new about the "new normal" in which we are told we now live. When Prime Minister Stephen Harper tells us we are at war with an international jihadist movement, he is essentially parroting former U.S. president George W. Bush, who declared war on terror more than 13 years ago. We have lived with threats since, the  so-called Toronto 18 plot and another alleged plot to blow up a VIA passenger train. Now we live with the twin atrocities in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., and Ottawa, homegrown terror and the frightening lure of jihadism for vulnerable young Canadians. But when Harper says the international jihadist movement has declared war on anyone who does not act or think as they would like, he has upped the ante. If, as Harper characterizes it, we are at war, we could use a little more precision and a little less fog in the ongoing effort against extremism.
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Réflexions sur les causes du terrorisme
Reflections on the root causes of terrorism
Why Charlie Hebdo attack is not about Islam
Al Jazeera 10/01/2015 - Radical Islam has today charted a path that mirrors radical capitalism, using violence only shocks "us" because we've managed to make the violence unleashed and supported for so long in our name morally and politically invisible. The major world powers have long coddled favoured local despots of whatever ideological stripe. But the strength of the relationships between western governments and the petroleum-rich states of the Arab world, secured by trillions of dollars cycling  back and forth between them through oil and arms sales, finance and heavy industry, is historically unprecedented. Neo-liberalism and jihadism are in fact happy bedfellows (the famous Charlie Hebdo cover of an Islamist and a secular Frenchman kissing would have more accurately depicted a banker, not a hipster.) Both are rapidly anti-democratic, support the concentration of wealth and power, and draw much of their strength from violence, war and a manageable level of chaos that keep oil prices high and petrodollars recycled via everything from fancy weapons to even fancier real estate.
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Al Jazeera 12/01/2015 - Millions of people from around the world flooded the streets of Paris on Saturday, waving pens, flags, signs and repeating the message "Je suis Charlie" (I am Charlie). While France was in the middle of its crisis last week after the killing of 17 innocent people by homegrown extremists, Nigeria watched as a long-known internal threat went on a far more deadly rampage. Countless refugees from the town of Baga fled for their lives when the armed group Boko Haram burned down homes and indiscriminately killed an  unconfirmed - but reportedly huge - number of people there. On Saturday a girl said to be about 10 years old walked into a crowded marketplace in the city of Maiduguri with an explosive vest. She detonated her device, and shortly after that, as people rushed to help the injured, another girl set off her explosives. In all, some 20 people were killed. More than ten thousand people were killed last year in the ongoing violence in Nigeria. Why is the world not paying more attention to the increasing power and brutality of Boko Haram? What should Nigeria's government and its allies do to stop the group? What are Boko Haram's goals? We asked our on-air panel of experts for the Inside Story.
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Liberté de la presse
Freedom of the press
Un blogueur saoudien fouetté en public pour avoir «insulté» l'islam
La Presse 09/01/2015 - Quarante-huit heures après la condamnation par Riyad de l'attaque contre Charlie Hebdo, champion de la liberté d'expression, un blogueur saoudien a reçu vendredi 50 coups de fouet pour «insulte envers l'islam» dans ce royaume qui n'accepte aucun écart. Raif Badaoui, 30 ans, a été fouetté devant une foule de fidèles après la prière hebdomadaire devant la mosquée al-Jafali de Jeddah (ouest de l'Arabie saoudite), selon des témoins. Emprisonné le 17 juin 2012, Raif Badaoui avait été condamné en mai 2014 à dix ans de prison,  une amende d'un million de riyals (267 000 dollars) et 1000 coups de fouet répartis sur 20 semaines. La première séance de flagellation, qui a duré une quinzaine de minutes, a donc eu lieu vendredi. Raif Badaoui, qui portait des chaînes aux mains et aux pieds, a été conduit dans un véhicule de police près de la mosquée al-Jafali. Un fonctionnaire des forces de l'ordre a lu devant la foule la sentence du tribunal. Le blogueur a ensuite été placé debout, dos à la foule, et un autre homme s'est mis à le fouetter, en retenant visiblement ses coups, ont indiqué des témoins. La foule a assisté en silence à la scène. Les forces de l'ordre ont signifié aux fidèles présents qu'ils était formellement interdit de prendre des photos. Read more - Lire plusSaudi blogger faces next 50 lashes as government ignores global protestsAppel à la libération d'un blogueur saoudien flagellé en publicCri du cœur de la femme de Raïf BadawiOttawa dénonce la sentence corporelle du blogueur saoudienJohn Baird hopes Mohamed Fahmy case can be resolved soon"Circus of hypocrisy": Jeremy Scahill on how world leaders at Paris march oppose press freedom
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Libertés civiles et démocratie
Civil liberties and democracy
Khaled Al-Qazzaz reportedly released from custody in Egypt
CBC News 11/01/2015 - An ailing Canadian resident imprisoned in Cairo for more than a year has been released from custody in an Egyptian hospital. A statement released on Sunday by supporters of Khaled Al-Qazzaz says they remain guarded until he is reunited with his family. The 35-year-old a University of Toronto engineering graduate, is a former aide to ousted president Mohammed Morsi. He was arrested along with Morsi and eight other aides in July 2013 when the Egyptian  military removed the president from office. Egyptian authorities never charged him nor explained why they arrested him. The case has attracted attention from human rights activists and groups, such as Amnesty International. An order was given on Dec. 29 by the country's attorney general for his release, but it was not immediately clear why Al-Qazzaz, a father of four, had yet to be freed. "Today Khaled and his family are extremely elated and grateful for his release," the statement read. "While we celebrate Khaled's freedom, we remain very concerned about his health and reuniting him with his wife, Sarah Attia and their four children in Canada." Read more - Lire plusNouveau procès pour l'ex-président égyptien MoubarakEgypt's high court overturns last conviction against Mubarak
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Autres nouvelles - More news
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Criminalisation de la dissidence
Criminalization of dissent
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Guantanamo
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Guerre au terrorisme
War on terror
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Freedom of association
Liberté d'association
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Privacy and surveillance
Vie privée et surveillance
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State secret
Secret d'État
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Terrorism cases
Procès pour terrorisme
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Torture
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Action
Sign petition in support of Jose Figueroa
 Ask United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to include human rights of Immigrants and Refugees in Canada in the agenda for meeting with Salvadorean Government on January 16, 2015. 
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Film
Citizenfour at the Bytowne Cinema on January 15-17
In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was several years into the making of a film about abuses of national security in post 9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted emails from someone identifying himself as "citizen four," who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert
surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. In June 2013, she and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her. The film that resulted from this series of tense encounters is absolutely unique in the history of cinema: a 100% real life thriller unfolding minute by minute before our eyes. Schedule & details
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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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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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"looking at additional powers to make sure that our security agencies have the range of tools available," apparently to address incidents like the shootings in Paris. However, judging by past policy patterns reaching the highest government levels, such new "powers" will likely be aimed at stifling and criminalizing voices of dissent, here are some reasons why.
