Posted by admin on Apr 17th, 2009
Leigh Anne Williams, Anglican Journal staff writer. Apr 17, 2009
Even though one of Barack Obama’s first decisions as U.S. president was to close the American prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, Djamel Ameziane, an Algerian detainee who has an offer from the Anglican diocese in Montreal to sponsor him as come to Canada as a refugee, is still waiting to taste freedom. Janet Dench, executive director of the Canadian Council for Refugees, said Canadian officials would have to have access to interview Mr. Ameziane first. The current hold-up, she said, seems to be that the Americans are waiting until they have reviewed all the prisoners’ cases.
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Posted by admin on Apr 16th, 2009
* CKUT Radio: Terror laws in Canada. Interview: Roch Tassé from International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group: http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/32347
* Hour: Anti-terror terror. Conservatives extend police powers by Stefan Christoff
The Conservative government has reintroduced two controversial provisions within the post-9/11 Anti-Terrorism Act. If passed, the recently tabled legislation would once again extend policing powers like investigative hearings and preventive arrests. These extraordinary measures expired in March 2007 when the opposition parties at the time refused to reaffirm them.
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Posted by admin on Mar 28th, 2009
The Independent Exclusive by Mark Hughes. March 28, 2009
Drastic new tactics to prevent school pupils as young as 13 falling into extremism. Two hundred school children in Britain, some as young as 13, have been identified as potential terrorists by a police scheme that aims to spot youngsters who are “vulnerable” to Islamic radicalisation. The number was revealed to The Independent by Sir Norman Bettison, the chief constable of West Yorkshire Police and Britain’s most senior officer in charge of terror prevention.
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Posted by admin on Mar 21st, 2009
Unprecedented request is an effort by the agency to clear its name. Globe and Mail. March 20, 2009
Canada’s anti-terrorist agency, seeking to prove its hands are clean, asked Friday for a formal probe into its role in the Abdelrazik affair, the still-murky saga of a Canadian citizen who was imprisoned and tortured in Sudanese jails and who remains marooned in Khartoum because the Harper government won’t give him a passport. The request by the Canada Security Intelligence Agency is unprecedented. In effect, CSIS is asking for an inquiry to clear itself of allegations made in Foreign Affairs department documents, marked “Secret,†that implicated CSIS in Abousfian Abdelrazik’s original arrest by Sudan’s notorious secret police. Such an inquiry could finally shed some light on the murky role of successive Canadian governments in targeting a citizen abroad.
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Posted by admin on Mar 20th, 2009
guardian.co.uk, Friday 20 March 2009 15.05 GMT
A Canadian spokesman confirmed that the Respect MP had been deemed inadmissible on national security grounds and would not be allowed into the country. Galloway today branded the ban “idiotic” and vowed to fight the ruling with “all means” at his disposal. He is due to give a speech in Toronto on 30 March. Earlier today the Sun said border security officials had declared Galloway, 54, “inadmissible” because of his views on Afghanistan and the presence of Canadian troops there and would be turned away if he attempted to enter the country.
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