Ongoing torture of Afghan prisoners?
In today’s online edition of the Toronto Star, Murray Brewster of The Canadian Press is reporting that an Afghan intelligence officer with the National Directorate of Security (NDS) boasted to […]
Complicity in torture actionable?
A terrific decision has come out of Ottawa in Abousfian Abdelrazik’s case against Lawrence Cannon and the Canadian government for damages resulting from Canada’s complicity in his reported torture by […]
Arar v. SCOTUS
Some excellent commentary coming from south of the 49th following the Supreme Court of the United State’s refusal to hear Maher Arar’s appeal of the dismissal of his civil suit […]
Secret documents, secret review
Yesterday, a detainee document agreement was struck between Government and two of three Opposition parties. The “pact” comes a full month and a half after Peter Milliken, Speaker of the […]
Accountability for U.S. renditions to torture?
Startling (and encouraging?) news from Maher Arar and his lawyers yesterday. Fresh off of the U.S. Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari in Mr. Arar’s appeal from the dismissal of his […]
Where there’s a will…
Today the MPCCÂ heard again from Nicholas Gosselin, who last appeared before the Commission this April. As readers will recall, Gosselin was the DFAIT officer who discovered implements of torture […]
Top military brass knew of Richard Colvin’s concerns
Today the MPCC is hearing testimony from Gabrielle Duschner, a key link between DFAIT and the Canadian Forces. Ms. Duschner worked for DFAIT as a political advisor to CEFCOM (the […]
MPCC Update
We 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 […]
Not my job (redux)
The 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 […]
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 […]
