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Overly broad and unnecessary anti-terrorism reforms could criminalize free speech
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Politique et terrorisme
Politics and terrorism
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La Presse 19/02/2015 - Nous quatre savons très certainement l'énormité de la responsabilité de protéger le Canada, tâche qu'un premier ministre a toujours en tête. Nous joignons nos voix à celles de 18 autres Canadiens et Canadiennes qui ont servi comme juges à la Cour suprême du Canada, ministres de la Justice et de la Sécurité publique, procureurs généraux, membres du Comité de surveillance des activités de renseignement de sécurité et commissaires chargés de surveiller la GRC et de faire respecter les lois sur la vie privée.  Dans nos différents rôles de charge publique, nous avons tous été confrontés et avons répondu à une série de préoccupations urgentes en matière de sécurité. Nous convenons tous et toutes que la protection du public est une des plus importantes fonctions du gouvernement et que les agences de sécurité nationale du Canada jouent un rôle vital à ce niveau. Cependant, nous sommes tous et toutes également d'avis que l'absence d'un mécanisme efficace et complet d'examen des agences de sécurité nationale du Canada fait en sorte qu'il est difficile d'évaluer de manière significative l'efficacité et la légalité des activités de ces agences. Ceci soulève d'importants problèmes de protection du public et des droits de la personne. Lire plusJean Chrétien, Joe Clark, Paul Martin et John Turner: A close eye on security makes Canadians safer
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CBC News 17/02/2015 - In his first television interview since his release from an Egyptian prison, Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy said he wants Prime Minister Stephen Harper to push Egypt for his deportation back to Canada. "I really hope that the prime minister is listening to me right now," Fahmy told the fifth estate's Gillian Findlay in Cairo, on Tuesday. After his release last week on bail following 412 days behind bars, Fahmy faces a retrial that is slated to begin Monday. Fahmy was the bureau chief for the Al-Jazeera English network in Cairo when he was arrested in December 2013 along with two colleagues - Baher Mohamed of Egypt and Peter  Greste of Australia. The three were tried on charges of broadcasting "false news" and supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, which Egypt has declared a terrorist group, convicted and sent to prison. Fahmy was given a seven-year sentence. Their convictions were thrown out last month, and a retrial was ordered. Since then, Greste has been deported back to Australia, after Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott called Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi. Fahmy urged Harper to make a similar call, as deportation could solve his legal situation. Egyptian lawmakers in late 2014 gave the president new powers to pardon or deport foreigners convicted of crimes in Egypt. "Of course it could happen," he said, referring to the possibility of him getting sent home if the prime minister calls Egypt's president. "How hard is it?" Fahmy added. Read more - Lire plus250 personnalités canadiennes au secours de Mohamed FahmyFahmy et la chasse aux sorcièresLa séance de flagellation de Raif Badawi de nouveau reportéeTurkish authorities use charges of terrorism to silence free speech2014, année marquée par le musellement des journalistes
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The Intercept 19/02/2015 - American and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. The hack was perpetrated by a joint unit consisting of operatives from the NSA and its British counterpart Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ. The breach, detailed in a secret 2010 GCHQ document, gave the surveillance agencies the potential to secretly monitor a large portion of the world's cellular communications, including both voice and data. The company targeted  by the intelligence agencies, Gemalto, is a multinational firm incorporated in the Netherlands that makes the chips used in mobile phones and next-generation credit cards. Among its clients are AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint and some 450 wireless network providers around the world. The company operates in 85 countries and has more than 40 manufacturing facilities. With these stolen encryption keys, intelligence agencies can monitor mobile communications without seeking or receiving approval from telecom companies and foreign governments. Possessing the keys also sidesteps the need to get a warrant or a wiretap, while leaving no trace on the wireless provider's network that the communications were intercepted. Bulk key theft additionally enables the intelligence agencies to unlock any previously encrypted communications they had already intercepted, but did not yet have the ability to decrypt. Read more - Lire plusThousands join legal fight against UK surveillance - and you can, tooUS intelligence reforms still allow plenty of suspicionless spying on Americans'Privacy critical to human freedom': Snowden, Poitras, and Greenwald talk NSA
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Reject fear. Stop Harper's "secret police" bill C-51!
LeadNow.ca - We call on MPs to reject Stephen Harper's fear campaign and stop the bill, unless it's amended to: -- Include strong safeguards for Canadians, including a dedicated, high-level Parliamentary committee to oversee our spy agencies. -- Strip out the outrageous attacks on civil liberties, including the sweeping expansion of spy powers, criminalization of speech, and preventative arrest for those who have committed no crime. -- Clarify that the vague parts of the bill, to be certain it will only be used to target people who pose a violent threat to the lives and physical security of people Video on Facebook 
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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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Stop spying on us!
OpenMedia - Breaking: leaked documents reveal that the Canadian spy agency CSE is conducting widespread, warrantless surveillance targeting use of our favourite downloading websites.  Tell Prime Minister Harper: I will not give up my right to privacy. These rights are more important than ever. End warrantless surveillance and rein in CSE now.
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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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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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whether the arrest is necessary. They could act on mere suspicion that an arrest is likely to prevent any terrorist activity. Yesterday, the Muslim men were freely exercising constitutional rights to freedom of expression and assembly. Today they are arrestable. B
There is certainly precedent for this concern. As the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group reported in a 2003 report, In the Shadow of the Law, there had been "hundreds" of instances where people in Canada "are being visited for interviews by security forces without warrants, and taken away for interrogation. Although the full extent of Bill C-36 [so-called 'anti-terror' legislation hurriedly passed by Parliament in 2001] was not implemented in these cases, it has been used as a threat to 'encourage' voluntary interviews by citing the risk of preventative detention allowed under the Act. Victims of such police conduct have been afraid to come forward publicly for fear of further retaliation."
values and freedoms, Prime Minister Harper is playing politics and putting our freedoms at risk. Canadians are right to suspect the Harper government's new anti-terror bill, C-51, goes too far. After careful review of this complex legislation and its negative impacts, the Official Opposition New Democrats will not support bill C-51. We understand the threat of terrorism at home and abroad is very real and that taking effective action to protect public safety is the top priority of any government. That responsibility includes protecting Canadians' way of life and standing up for our freedoms and shared values.
country's "financial stability." May has asked Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney, Justice Minister Peter MacKay and now the prime minister about peaceful but unlawful protests, and says she's gotten "non-answers" each time. "I think they don't want to address the question of non-violent and illegal civil disobedience. Civil disobedience of all kinds is wide open to falling under this act unless it's amended," said May, who is a lawyer.
watching over our shoulder, bugging our phone or reading our comments on Facebook, we will either censor ourselves or simply keep quiet.
