Canada has publicly urged Iran not to execute 44 year-old Canadian-Iranian Hamid Ghassemi-Shall. Mr. Ghassemi-Shall is being held in the notorious Evin prison. While on a family visit to Iran in 2008, he was arrested by Iranian authorities and accused of being a spy. Since then, Mr. Ghassemi-Shall has been imprisoned and unable to return [...]
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The Canadian Press recently published a document obtained through an access to information request. The document is a Directive to CSIS, from the Minister of Public Safety, dated July 28, 2011, and deals with torture. The Directive, entitled “Information Sharing with Foreign Entities”, essentially permits two types of information sharing: (1) CSIS is permitted in certain circumstances to share [...] CCLA welcomes the news that Abousfian Abdelrazik has been de-listed from the UN 1267 listing regime. At this stage, CCLA is very concerned that Mr. Abdelrazik remained on the list from 2006-2011 and suffered from being publicly and internationally branded as a ‘terror suspect’, on the basis of “secret evidence”, with his assets frozen, unable [...] The CCLA is very concerned about Nathalie Morin, and her three minor children, all Canadian citizens currently in Saudi Arabia. Ms. Morin has not been heard from since June 13th, 2011, according to her Quebec-based mother Johanne Durocher. There have been serious allegations of domestic violence in this case. Domestic violence is not a “private matter” excusing State [...] The CCLA recently submitted a brief to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeal to support the appeal of Ronald Allen Smith, the only Canadian currently on death row in the United States. Smith has been on death row for over 27 years and has been involved in extensive litigation since his original death sentence [...] |
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