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Revue de l'actualit� - News Digest 
14 avril 2016 - April 14th, 2016 
Counter-radicalization programs    
Programmes contre la radicalisation    

Monia Mazigh & Azeezah Kanji:
Is 'counter-radicalization' just another way of blaming all terrorism on Muslims?


iPolitics 02/04/2016 - The recently-unveiled federal budget dedicates $35-million over five years to establish an Office of the Community Outreach and Counter-Radicalization Coordinator. Expert analyses, however, project an unflattering light on the whole enterprise of counter-radicalization. In a report released this February, UN Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights Ben Emmerson criticized prevailing approaches to countering radicalization as conceptually flawed and ineffective. [...] John Horgan, former director of the International Center for the Study of Terrorism at Pennsylvania State University, is even more blunt: "The idea that radicalization causes terrorism is perhaps the greatest myth alive today in terrorism research." Which leads to the question: What exactly will Canada's new Office of Counter-Radicalization be countering?

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FBI's "Shared Responsibility Committees" to identify radicalized Muslims raise alarms

The human rights risks of Countering Violent Extremism programs
Canadians detained abroad    
Canadiens d�tenus � l'�tranger 

Human rights advocates urge government to secure Al-Qazzaz family's release from Egypt

iPolitics 12/04/2016 - Al-Qazzaz, who was detained for 18 months without charge in 2013 after the fall of President Mohamed Morsi, whom he  advised, was released in January, 2015, only to find out he was barred from leaving the country. He and his Canadian wife, Sarah Attia, and their four young children, are still waiting to leave Egypt. Human rights groups today said the Canadian government has not done enough to help the family return safely to Canada. Monia Mazigh, the National Coordinator for the ICLMG, has been involved in the case since Al-Qazzaz was detained in 2013. Mazigh said that last month, her organization, along with nine other human rights organizations, sent an appeal to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to do everything in his power to end the ordeal - but so far they haven't received any response.

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Salim Alaradi's lawyers closing arguments establish prosecution's case is unsubstantiated and allegations are groundless
Torture    

No 'sunny ways' for Canadian torture victims: Desmond Cole

The Toronto Star 14/04/2016 - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his federal Liberals are turning their backs on three Canadians who were tortured overseas. When they were in opposition, the Liberals advocated for Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati, and Muayyed Nureddin, who were captured in Syria with the help of Canadian security officials, detained, and tortured. Trudeau and nine of his current ministers voted that the men receive apologies and compensation. Now the governing Liberals have changed their minds - they are actively fighting the victims' claims for reparations and protecting the government officials who helped expose them to harm. We might have seen this coming. Trudeau's promise of "sunny ways" as the new government never extended to issues of so-called national security. Trudeau is in sync with former PM Stephen Harper on the government's right to spy on its own citizens, and to share what it learns, true or false, with officials in the United States and around the world. Men of Arab heritage like Almalki, El Maati and Nureddin, all of whom are Canadian citizens, are as vulnerable to racist state surveillance and criminalization under Trudeau's watch as they ever have been.

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Oversight & review of security agencies 
Surveillance & examen des agences de s�curit�

Goodale keeping options open for CBSA oversight

The Hill Times 13/04/2016 - So far, the government has committed only to creating a committee of Parliamentarians from all parties to act as an oversight body for the CBSA and other intelligence agencies. NDP public safety critic Randall Garrison and spokespeople for Amnesty International Canada and the ICLMG say this doesn't go far enough. The office of Mr. Goodale says he is open to considering additional oversight  for the CBSA. [...] An inspector general as proposed by Senator Moore wouldn't be enough either as strong and in-depth reforms to CBSA oversight are necessary. An oversight agency must have the power to act quickly when someone is being mistreated, not just write reports for publication later, says Josh Paterson from BCCLA. It must be well funded, completely independent of the government and free to co-ordinate with other government oversight bodies.

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Migrants and refugee rights 
Migrants et droits des r�fugi�.es  

Ontario human rights official calls for change to immigration detention system

The Toronto Star 12/04/2016 - In an open letter to the province's community safety minister and copied to his federal counterpart, Renu Mandhane, head of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, calls for major reforms to a system in which thousands of non-citizens are jailed under immigration laws each year - and several die. "There is a fundamental, systemic problem with using provincial correctional facilities designed for persons detained under the Criminal Code to detain immigrants who are neither criminally charged nor serving a sentence,"  Mandhane says in her letter to Yasir Naqvi.

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CCR calls for further amendments to Citizenship Act

UK - Revealed: immigration officers allowed to hack phones

"America's Afghan refugee crisis": 15 years into war, U.S. urged to resettle more displaced Afghans

The rise of Germany's anti-refugee right
No fly list     
Liste d'interdiction de vol 
 
Public Safety planning new system to deal with no fly list inaccuracies

Global news 13/04/2016 - "The system itself needs to be fixed to solve the larger problem and that's what we're working on," Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale told Global News, prior to officially announcing the plan next month. Unofficially, more than 60 families have come forward to a group  called No Fly List Kids. The group's primary goal is to see a Canadian redress system up and running, so their kids are never misidentified as a terrorist -especially in countries that have terrible human rights records. Rather than using birth dates as a secondary check, the new redress system will allow Canadians who share names that are flagged on a no-fly list to enter a private number to prove they are not a threat.

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Vie priv�e      
Privacy
 
Exclusive: Canadian police obtained BlackBerry's global decryption key

Vice news 14/04/2016 - A high-level surveillance probe of Montreal's criminal underworld shows that Canada's federal policing agency has had a global encryption key for BlackBerry devices since 2010. According to technical reports by the RCMP that were filed in court, law enforcement intercepted and decrypted roughly one million PIN-to-PIN BlackBerry messages in connection with the probe. The report doesn't disclose exactly where the key - effectively a piece of code that could break the encryption on virtually any BlackBerry message sent from one device to another - came from. But, as one police officer put it, it was a key that could unlock millions of doors. Government lawyers spent almost two years fighting in a Montreal courtroom to keep this information out of the public record."

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Mass surveillance
Surveillance globale 

Privacy watchdog to investigate RCMP over alleged 'stingray' cellphone surveillance

The Toronto Star 12/04/2016 - During the course of an investigation, the privacy  commissioner typically determines if any privacy laws have been broken and makes recommendations on future policy. The complaint was filed by Laura Tribe, a digital rights specialist for free speech advocate OpenMedia, after she read a story in the Star about the RCMP's refusal to answer questions about the devices. "If these invasive technologies are not in use, then these agencies should have no problem confirming that their surveillance activities remain within the confines of the law. If these StingRay technologies are being used in Canada however, the public has a right to know," said her complaint, filed in December.

Drones 
 
I'm on the Kill List. This is what it feels like to be hunted by drones

Independent 12/04/2016 - I soon began to park any vehicle far from my destination, to avoid making it a target. My friends began to decline my invitations, afraid that dinner might be interrupted by a missile. I took to the habit of sleeping under the trees, well above my home, to avoid acting as a  magnet of death for my whole family. But one night my youngest son, Hilal (then aged six), followed me out to the mountainside. He said that he, too, feared the droning engines at night. I tried to comfort him. I said that drones wouldn't target children, but Hilal refused to believe me. He said that missiles had often killed children. It was then that I knew that I could not let them go on living like this. I know the Americans think me an opponent of their drone wars. They are right; I am. Singling out people to assassinate, and killing nine of our innocent children for each person they target, is a crime of unspeakable proportions. Their policy is as foolish as it is criminal, as it radicalises the very people we are trying to calm down.

 
Autres nouvelles - More news
Anti-terror legislation
L�gislation antiterroriste 
Biom�trie
Biometrics
Criminalisation de la dissidence
Criminalization of dissent 
Guantanamo 
"Guerre au terrorisme"
"War on terror"
Islamophobie       
Islamophobia
Omar Khadr        
Privacy       
Vie priv�e   
Torture         
Miscellaneous
Divers

CETTE SEMAINE / THIS WEEK
 

ICLMG - Canada's numerous national security agencies - including CSEC, CSIS, the RCMP and CBSA - have inadequate or simply no oversight or review mechanisms. This has led to human rights violations such as the rendition to torture of Canadiancitizens Maher Arar,
Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El-Maati and Muayyed Nurredin, among others. In 2006, Justice O'Connor concluded the Arar Commission with several recommendations to prevent such atrocities from happening again: Canadian national security agencies must be subjected to robust, integrated and comprehensive oversight and review. Years have passed and the federal government has yet to implement the recommendations.

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Action   

Stop stingray surveillance!   

OpenMedia - Stingrays (also known as "IMSI-catchers") are surveillance devices that can suck up every piece of sensitive, personal info in our cell phones. Every call, email, and text - our most intimate moments. You don't have to do anything wrong to be a victim. Stingrays CAN'T target one person. They CAN vacuum up an entire neighbourhood, or up to 10,000 people's private data at once. We know they're being used in countries including the U.S. and Australia, and other governments are fighting to keep their use a secret. We must rein this in. Tell law-makers: It's time to put a stop to invasive Stingray cellphone surveillance.


Action   

Free Huseyin Celil   

Amnesty International - Huseyin has been in prison for 10 years after an unfair trial. Take action now to ensure that Huseyin is not subject to another 10 years of unfair treatment.


Action   

PM Trudeau: Call on the UAE to free Canadian citizen Salim Alaradi now!   

ICLMG - Salim Alaradi, a Canadian citizen and father of 5 young children, has been detained without charge in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) since August 2014. We are also worried that he was tortured. His health is deteriorating quickly as his family has informed us this week. Write to Prime Minister Trudeau to urge him to call on the UAE to free Salim Alaradi now!


Action   

Let Khaled leave Egypt!  

Free Khaled Al-Qazzaz - Write to your MP to ask them to urge the Egyptian authorities to remove the travel ban on Canadian resident Khaled Al-Qazzaz so he can finally be free after being detained without charges for a year and a half and released since January 2015 but prevented from leaving the country.



Les opinions exprim�es ne refl�tent pas n�cessairement les positions de la CSILC - The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the positions of ICLMG

What is the News Digest? Qu'est-ce que la Revue de l'actualit�?

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 43 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'actualit� est notre publication hebdomadaire de nouvelles, d'�v�nements, d'appels � l'action, et beaucoup plus, entourant la s�curit� nationale, la lutte au terrorisme, et les libert�s civiles. La CSILC est une coalition nationale de 43 organisations de la soci�t� civile canadienne qui a �t� cr��e suite aux attentats terroristes de septembre 2001 aux �tats-Unis.