As Omar Khadr’s August trial date approaches, his Edmonton lawyers Dennis Edney and Nathan Whitling have applied for judicial review of the government’s actions following the Supreme Court ruling in January 2010 in Khadr v. Canada. Omar Khadr / Canwest … Read More
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Here we go again
Posted onIn a move that looks to further obstruct the progress of the MPCC inquiry, the federal government has applied for a judicial review of a summons for documents potentially crucial to the MPCC’s investigation. The documents at issue are detainee … Read More
Challenging the UN Security Council
Posted onToday, the BCCLA, in conjunction with the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) and Abousfian Abdelrazik, will launch a lawsuit in Federal Court challenging the U.N. Security Council’s anti-terrorism sanctions regime, also known as the “1267 Regime”. The 1267 Regime … Read More
MPCC Update
Posted onWe were reminded by a reader over the weekend that it’s been a while since we’ve updated you on the goings-on at the MPCC. As we mentioned a few posts back, the MPCC hearings looked to be suspended over the … Read More
Not my job (redux)
Posted onThe BCCLA National Security blog is posting from sunny Ottawa today, where we finished up the last of the MPCC witnesses until hearings resume again in mid-June. Carmen Cheung, Counsel at the BCCLA, has been attending the past week of … Read More
Brigadier-General Laroche: “We had evidence that detainees were abused and tortured”
Posted onToday, the Military Police Complaints Commission heard testimony from Brigadier-General Guy Laroche, Commander of the Task Force in Afghanistan from November 2007 to May 2008. As we mentioned yesterday, BGen Laroche was Commander in Afghanistan when detainee transfers were suspended in … Read More
This week at the MPCC
Posted onThe Afghanistan Public Interest Hearings at the Military Police Complaints Commission continue this week before a month-long break while the Commission waits for the government to make the required document disclosures. BCCLA Counsel Carmen Cheung is in Ottawa again this … Read More
CBSA laptop search documents
Posted onIn late February, shortly after the story we posted about the Canada Border Services Agency delaying our request for documents on their policies on searching laptops and other personal electronics, a slim brown envelope arrived in our office. The response … Read More
Databases: We’ll show you ours if you show us yours
Posted onThe Afghan detainee file has been taking up a lot of our time lately, but the BCCLA national security team hasn’t dropped the ball on other issues. One area we’ve been watching is transnational data sharing, especially between Canada and … Read More
Parliament: 1 / Government: 0
Posted onIn a precedent-setting decision this afternoon, House of Commons Speaker Peter Milliken ruled that the government could be compelled to disclose to Parliament uncensored copies of documents relating to the transfer of Afghan detainees to risk of torture, and reaffirmed the … Read More
