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Législation antiterroriste
Anti-terror laws
Huffington Post 19/01/2015 - St. Jean-sur-Richelieu, Ottawa, Sydney, Paris - cities under siege by attackers on killing sprees. The killers weren't sophisticated soldiers sent from terrorist networks abroad, but emerged from within the same country, in Canada, Australia and France. The attacks have created a heightened urgency for governments to combat the threat of homegrown terrorism and radicalization. In Canada, the federal government is set to table new anti-terror legislation by the end of the month, which is expected to strengthen the  country's intelligence and surveillance programs. It includes giving CSIS new powers to track homegrown extremists abroad and the ability to share information with other spy and enforcement agencies. But some say these proposed measures, which will be unveiled when MPs return to Parliament, don't get to the heart of dealing with the radicalization that leads to terror attacks, especially as ISIS and other groups grow more sophisticated with their recruitment campaigns. Michael Zekulin, a researcher with the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary, says the legislation might even be playing into the hands of jihadist groups.
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Liberté d'expression
Freedom of speech
Don't criminalize the glorification of terrorism, law professors urge government, citing 'uncertain constitutional terrain'
The National Post 22/01/2015 - If someone posts a statement online that "all real Muslims should engage in military jihad," should that be enough for police to come knocking? In a newly published paper, two Canadian law professors are cautioning the government against rushing to criminalize the glorification of terrorism - or "radicalized boasting" - on the Internet, saying it could undermine freedom of expression and put the country on "extremely uncertain constitutional terrain." Craig Forcese of the  University of Ottawa and Kent Roach of the University of Toronto write that the causal link between radicalized speech on the Internet and violence is still very tenuous. Government officials are better off using existing laws to target the most dangerous Internet materials - those that have clearly crossed a criminal line and are designed to further the aims of terrorist groups, whether it be recruiting or inciting, they said. "Glorification offences would penalize substantial amounts of speech, far removed and not often causally related to terrorist activity," the researchers wrote in a working paper for the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society. "The chill effect on speech would be potentially enormous, and the scope of intrusive police investigation expanded." Read more - Lire plusNo Chelsea morning for hypocritical world leaders in Paris
rabble.ca 19/01/2015 - [...] Meantime, the Canadian government continues to provide all-out support for the Egyptian dictatorship, which has crushed any notion of press freedom, including the jailing for over one year of Canadian Al Jazeera correspondent Mohamed Fahmy. The Harper government has similarly supported post-coup regimes in countries like Honduras, where being a journalist can get you killed for questioning state abuses. Harper has also been less than willing to operate in the sunshine of transparency and freedom. In 2013, the Halifax-based Centre for Law and Democracy ranked Canada 55th out of 93 nations, behind Colombia and Mongolia, among others, with respect to government openness and respect for freedom of information. It is in this fearsome environment where  the act of speaking certain words and writing of uncomfortable truths is becoming increasingly risky (though certainly no less necessary). In this context, the Harper government, whose leader declared an "international jihadist movement" has "declared war on any country like ourselves that values freedom, openness and tolerance," is set to introduce even more repressive measures that mock those stated values. These include lowering even further the threshold to make preventive arrests, reducing personal privacy and easing the sharing of personal information with intelligence agencies (exactly the kind of thing that led to the torture of numerous Canadian citizens). Also on tap is having Canada's national police force -- one complicit in torture of Canadians abroad, harassment of and violence against female officers at home, and various other crimes -- lead a campaign against those who are angry about such injustices (i.e., those who have become "radicalized."). Read more - Lire plus
France begins jailing people for ironic comments
The Electronic Intifada 14/01/2015 - It may sound like an ironic joke, but it isn't. Less than a week after the massive rallies in defense of "free expression," following the murders of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, French authorities have jailed a youth for irony. The arrest is part of a harsh crackdown on free speech in the country that has prompted criticism from national and international human rights organizations. A 16-year-old high school student was taken into police custody on Thursday and indicted for "defending terrorism," national broadcaster France 3 reports. His alleged crime? He posted on Facebook a cartoon "representing a person holding the magazine Charlie Hebdo, being hit by bullets,  and accompanied by an 'ironic' comment," France 3 states. The teen lives at home with his parents, has no prior judicial record and, according to prosecutor Yvon Ollivier quoted by French media, he does not have a "profile suggesting an evolution toward jihadism." The boy told prosecutors that he posted the cartoon because he thought it was "funny." The media reports do not include the drawing - presumably that could put journalists afoul of the law. So we do not know for sure what the youth is accused of sharing. An actual Charlie Hebdo from July 2013 caused outrage for mocking Egyptian protestors killed after the military coup. The text says "The Quran is shit. It doesn't stop bullets." But the cartoon at the top of this page fits the description precisely. It was widely shared on social media, and published on 7 January on the website of the controversial French comedian Dieudonné. It is a mock Charlie Hebdo cover by the cartoonist Dedko. Read more - Lire plusApologie du terrorisme : Valls met une pression «morale» sur les hébergeursMahmood Mamdani: 'Charlie Hebdo cartoons are bigoted'French mayor bans anti-jihadist Muslim filmSecret burials, rally ban: France hopes to head off unrest
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Liberté de la presse
Freedom of the press
«Je suis Badawi»
L'actualité 16/01/2015 - Il y a une semaine, le blogueur saoudien Raïf Badawi a reçu 50 coups de fouet - les premiers des 1 000 qu'on lui a imposés -, en plus de 10 ans de prison, pour avoir lancé un appel pour une plus grande liberté de religion en Arabie saoudite. Ce vendredi, les autorités saoudiennes ont reporté la seconde des 19 séances de flagellation à venir, parce que les plaies causées par la première n'étaient pas suffisamment guéries.  Cynique «compassion», qui ne peut faire oublier la barbarie! Le sort de M. Badawi, qui est lauréat 2014 du prix Reporters sans frontières pour la liberté de la presse, et dont la femme et les enfants sont réfugiés à Sherbrooke depuis 2013, aurait dû émouvoir ces défenseurs de la liberté d'expression qui se sont manifestés au lendemain de la tuerie de Charlie Hebdo. Ce fut le cas à Sherbrooke - et depuis un moment déjà (M. Badawi est en prison depuis juin 2012). Même chose dans plusieurs autres coins du monde. Mais ailleurs, y compris à Ottawa, on a eu l'impression de n'entendre que des murmures. Read more - Lire plusLa flagellation de Badawi encore reportée: la pression s'intensifiePlanned flogging of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi postponed againReligious freedom advocates make public offer to be whipped in Raif Badawi's placePeggy Mason: Saudi arms deal makes mockery of Canadian values
Embassy News 21/01/2015 - The Harper government has made defending Western values a centrepiece of its anti-terror rhetoric. But our actions both at home and abroad tell a different story. Since the 9/11 attacks, Western democracies, in the name of fighting terrorism, have enacted countless anti-democratic measures to curtail free speech, free assembly, peaceful political dissent and most especially due process and the rule of law. At the same time, we have partnered with anti-democratic regimes abroad to counter the illegal use of force by  violent extremists with our own military "reign of terror." Nothing can illustrate this Orwellian approach more clearly than Canada's unholy alliance with Saudi Arabia. It is one of three countries, along with the United States and Israel, that not only violent jihadists but the vast majority of moderate Islam (with much justification) hold largely responsible for preventing Muslim countries in the Middle East from taking their rightful place in the world community. [...] The sentencing of Raif Badawi, a young Saudi blogger with family in Sherbrooke, Que., has finally brought some long-overdue Canadian media attention to Saudi Arabia's appalling human rights record. Mr. Badawi was sentenced to 10 years in prison and a public flogging of 1,000 lashes-50 per week over 20 weeks-for the crimes of insulting Islam and creating the "Saudi Arabian Liberals" website for social and political debate. Read more - Lire plusNo more Saudi business as usualThe US government retreats - a bit - in its assault on press freedomHarper must ask Egypt to release Fahmy: Amnesty International
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Réflexions sur la guerre au terrorisme
Reflections on the war on terror
The real threat to our civil liberties comes from our protectors, not the terrorists
Canada.com 16/01/2015 - To keep us safe, security officials and politicians tell us, we now need to make it easier to snoop on and detain potential attackers. The public's fear is a powerful political force - the kind of thing that changes the course of elections. It will lead to more surveillance, more fences, more scanners. But spies already collect more data than they can sift through, as they are  forced to admit after every successful attack. And how can we preventively detain people for thought crimes? And should we stop with the jihadis? The worst terrorist attack in Canada last year was carried out by a Moncton gun nut, who murdered three Mounties. Should we lock up every troubled loner who thinks the government wants to take all the guns? Where does it end? How will we know when we're safe? I fear our protectors more than I do the terrorists.
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Surveillance globale
Mass surveillance
The RCMP spent $1.6 million to run an unconstitutional spying program
Vice 20/01/2015 - Canada's federal police continued to snoop on Canadians' cellphones and computers for at least a month after the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional, new documents prove. Financial records obtained by VICE through the Access to Information Act show the extent to which the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) used federal  legislation to obtain information on Canadians from all major phone companies without warrants. Instead, police paid small fees for each of these requests. The Supreme Court ruled that practise illegal in its June 13, 2014, decision on R. v. Spencer, writing that police need judicial authorization before making those sorts of requests. However, the records show Telus and Bell both continued to fork over Canadians' information even after that decision was handed down. Read more - Lire plusGCHQ captured emails of journalists from top international media
The Guardian 19/01/2015 - GCHQ's bulk surveillance of electronic communications has scooped up emails to and from journalists working for some of the US and UK's largest media organisations, analysis of documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals. Emails from the BBC, Reuters, the Guardian, the New York Times, Le Monde, the Sun, NBC and the Washington Post were saved by GCHQ and shared on the  agency's intranet as part of a test exercise by the signals intelligence agency. The disclosure comes as the British government faces intense pressure to protect the confidential communications of reporters, MPs and lawyers from snooping. The journalists' communications were among 70,000 emails harvested in the space of less than 10 minutes on one day in November 2008 by one of GCHQ's numerous taps on the fibre-optic cables that make up the backbone of the internet. Read more - Lire plusSecret US cybersecurity report: encryption vital to protect private dataObama: I haven't forgotten NSA reform
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Autres nouvelles - More news
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Criminalisation de la dissidence
Criminalization of dissent
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Drones
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Guantanamo
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Guerre au terrorisme
War on terror
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Immigration and refugee rights Immigration et droits des réfugié.es
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Oversight of security agencies
Surveillance des agence de sécurité
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Réflexions sur le terrorisme
Reflections on terrorism
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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
Signez la pétition pour libérer le blogueur saoudien Raif Badawi
 Amnistie internationale - Raif Badawi, prisonnier d'opinion en Arabie saoudite, risque la mort pour avoir offert un débat sur la liberté religieuse. Exigeons des autorités saoudiennes que les coups de fouet cessent immédiatement, que Raif soit libéré sans condition, et qu'il soit réuni avec sa famille réfugiée au Canada. Exigeons de cet État qu'il respecte ses obligations en matière de droits humains et qu'il abolisse la flagellation.  English petition
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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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