Justice for Omar Khadr! »
August 10, 2010 may mark the beginning of the end for Omar Khadr. An internationally condemned military commission process will commence and Omar Khadr will be tried for multiple terrorist-related charges. These charges have been...
August 1 2010 / 4 comments / Read More »
Bashir Makhtal: The Only Justice is Repatriation »
In late 2006, Somalia again became one of the battlegrounds in the so-called “war on terror”. Whether you were there or trying to leave, you were under suspicion. At least 140 people were arrested by Kenyan...
July 7 2010 / No comment / Read More »Bad Summer For Top Ottawa Secureaucrats »
It’s been a bad summer for top Ottawa ‘secureaucrats’ – senior public servants in charge of the agencies with lead responsibilities for national security....
Aug 26 2010 / No comment / Read More »Omar Khadr. Is There a Path to Justice »
A week of the military commission trial in the case of the United States vs Omar Khadr has just wrapped up. And no one...
Aug 14 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »The Illegality of the G20 Mass Arrests »
As I was reading the hundreds of incidents reports that Canadian Civil Liberties Association has received, I was struck by the common themes: astonishment...
Jul 22 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »Policing the G20 Summit: Whose Security? Whose Human Rights? »
The debate about security and human rights is not just about insidious practices like extraordinary rendition and infamous prison camps like Guantánamo Bay. It...
Jul 14 2010 / 2 comments / Read More »
