Brigadier-General Laroche: “We had evidence that detainees were abused and tortured”
Today, 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 […]
This week at the MPCC
The 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 […]
CBSA laptop search documents
In 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, […]
Databases: We’ll show you ours if you show us yours
The 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 […]
Parliament: 1 / Government: 0
In 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 […]
Meanwhile, back at the MPCC …
Busy day on the document disclosure front. Earlier, we recapped the goings-on in Parliament, in which the Speaker of the House of Commons ruled that government was in breach of […]
“Good kid, non-radicalized and salvageable”
Omar Khadr heads off to pre-trial hearings this week, in preparation for his July trial by military commission. The Globe and Mail has an interview in today’s paper with Mr. […]
MPCC hearings schedule update
As promised, here’s what we know so far about the upcoming weeks. The subject witnesses, who were all scheduled to testify over the next three weeks, have been adjourned, pending […]
See you in September (?)
The latest dust-up at the MPCC over document disclosure from the Department of Justice looks to derail the next few weeks of hearings. The hearings were initially scheduled to be […]
We’re just waiting on the new shipment of black markers
The MPCC is back in session today, with testimony from Major Kevin Rowcliffe, former staff adviser to Lt.-Gen. Michel Gauthier, who was in turn, second in command of the Afghanistan […]