News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 9 mai 2026: Webinaire | Projet de loi C-22, Loi sur l’accès légal : une surveillance sans précédent, avec la CSILC; White hat hackers warn lawful access bill could make it easier for criminals to penetrate Canadian systems; CMPAC: Canada must ascertain its position against Israel’s continued military aggression in Lebanon; Canadian sues U.S. Homeland Security, which allegedly sought his Google data after critical social media posts; Supreme Court rules that national security committee legislation stands; Carney’s Attack on Refugees and Migrants; Five Ways The War on Terror Empowered The ICE Assault; Hegseth Brags of a Deadlier War Machine as U.S. Unleashes “Devastating Civilian Harm Globally”; Insane Pre-Crime Strategy Unveiled for Leftist “Extremists”; Palestine Action: Deproscription Theatre Cannot Justify Terrorism Laws; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 25 avril 2026: Civil Society to Parliament: Kill Bill C-22; LDL: De nombreuses voix s’élèvent contre le projet de loi fédéral liberticide C-9; Canada is cancelling thousands of asylum claims. It’s leaving this man and many other migrants stuck in limbo here; Canadians oppose the Middle East war. The federal government doesn’t; Canadian Coast Guard tests Arctic surveillance drone as air force delivery stalls; Council passes bubble bylaw despite potential future legal challenges; Assembly of First Nations head rejects RCMP ‘regret’ for secret Indigenous surveillance program; A Traveller Accuses Vancouver Airport Border Agents of Racial Profiling; Bombshell development in Iain Hunt case with national security concerns; US Launches Another Airstrike in Somalia as Trump Continues Ramped Up Bombing Campaign; The U.S. Is Still Routinely Killing Civilians in Boats; Death by A.I.: New “Autonomous Warfare Center” will automate targeted killings; What are “Nihilistic Violent Extremists”?; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 11 avril 2026: C-22: New “Lawful Access” Bill will Supercharge Government Surveillance and Undermine Privacy; Joint Statement: Senate Must Ensure Thorough Review of Bill C-9 to Protect Civil Liberties and Fundamental Freedoms; Criticism of Bill C-12 grows over risks to the health of refugees and migrants; Enemies of the State: How spying on Indigenous activists became a priority at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service; Owen Schalk: As Israel eyes executions, Canada targets Palestine solidarity; He spent years defending Tamil refugees. As Minister, he’s refusing to stop a deportation back to danger in Sri Lanka; It’s been 25 years since Canada locked up this man. The government must finally admit that was wrong; How Canadian military members violated intelligence-gathering rules during COVID-19; Will any Canadian MP call to cut military ties with Trump-led USA?; Trump’s Secret Wars on the World Keep Expanding; Israel’s War on Lebanon Is a Consequence of “No Accountability” for Gaza: Human Rights Watch; Jordan Liz: Trump’s Phoney War on Narcoterrorism; U.S. Pushes Allies to Chase a New Terrorism Target: The Far Left; Exclusive: FBI’s New Political Pre-Crime Center; Not just ICE: Do we need DHS?; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 28 mars 2026: ICLMG’s submission to the People’s Consultation on AI; Passing of Bill C-12 is an Attack on Refugee and Migrant Rights in Canada; UN Calls on Canada to Repatriate Detainees from North-eastern Syria and Iraq; Canadians should be concerned about privacy, police access in federal lawful access bill: lawyer; Parliament Passes Bill C-9 Despite National Outcry from Faith and Civil Liberties Groups; Justice for Hassan Diab: A webinar; Cops with rifles to be deployed to key locations in Toronto as police create new “counter-terrorism” unit, task force; Silence not an option, says Canadian Sikh activist after fresh threats; CRCC systemic investigation into the RCMP C-IRG now completed, but unreleased due to “absence of a decision-maker”; NDP Demands Accountability Following “Jaw-Dropping” Revelations of RCMP Surveillance of Indigenous Leaders; Carney must prevent Israeli annexation and genocide in Lebanon; Pentagon Whistleblower Criticizes “Bloodthirst” of Iran War, Says Hegseth Is Enabling War Crimes; Afghan–Pakistani border: UN experts urgently call for lasting peace; Pentagon Reveals Attacks in Latin America Are Just the Beginning; Venezuelans deported by US issue fresh claims of torture and abuse in El Salvador prison; How Trump’s DOJ is Targeting Anti-ICE Protesters and Leftists; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 14 mars 2026: CMPAC presents ICLMG’s Tim McSorley with its Community Partner Award; Bill C-9 Was Supposed to Fight Hate. Instead, It’s Being Rushed Through Parliament and Threatens the Rights of Every Canadian; Join Hassan Diab for a Webinar and Information Evening on March 20th; Evidence links Indian officials at Vancouver consulate to killing of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar; AI & Policing: Research Report on the Governance & Use of Artificial Intelligence by Police in Canada; A notorious RCMP unit shaped B.C. universities’ reaction to Palestine encampments; Carney government chooses Trump and arming genocide over international law as Liberals vote down ‘No More Loopholes’ Act; Carney’s Iran hypocrisy; Iran: UN experts call for de-escalation and accountability; Exclusive: Ottawa admits restricting intelligence over Op. Southern Spear concerns; Spencer Ackerman: The War on Terror Paved the Way for Trump’s Rise—Now He’s Making It His Own; Judge Blocks DeSantis’s Declaration of Muslim Group as Terrorist Organization; Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 28 février 2026: ICLMG: Government must take immediate action to address serious concerns with Canada’s No Fly List regime following independent review; Open Letter to Federal Parliamentarians to remove “Henry the VIII” exemption powers from Budget Bill C-15; Ratna Omidvar & Allan Rock: Sober second thought is needed on C-12; Families of Canadian Detainees Transferred to Iraq Demand Answers from Ottawa; Non aux nouvelles limites au droit de manifester; Crown corp. alerted minister’s office about U.S. artillery ammunition sale connected to Israel; Girl, 8, pleads with Ottawa to help reunite with her mother, stuck in Gaza: ‘Please Canada, try your best to help me’; Canada’s national amnesia on Islamophobia; Conservative MP searches for ‘antifa’ in federal government, Canadian Armed Forces; Trump’s Version of “Domestic Terrorism” vs. the First Amendment; Mexico Got Help Killing Drug Lord From Secretive U.S. Campaign Led by FBI and ICE; Junta airstrikes kill 5 civilians in central Myanmar; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 14 février 2026: ICLMG testifies against Bill C-12 at Senate Committee; ICLMG raises concerns with the proposed regulations for the Foreign Influence Registry; ICLMG reacts to Federal Government Eliminating the Position of Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia; Documents reveal more about powerful forces behind push for warrantless lawful access; The Repatriation of Jack Letts and other Canadian Citizens Arbitrarily Detained in Northeast Syria/Iraq; Upholding human rights for Hassan Diab; As Tumbler Ridge Mourns, Anti-Trans Misinfo Spreads; For years, Canada has used a secret US-run terror watchlist. Now Trump could use it against us; Trump pushes Cuba toward catastrophe; Why are Canadian arms fuelling foreign conflicts?; Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate; “Terrorist”: How ICE Weaponized 9/11’s Scarlet Letter; UK Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful, in humiliating blow for ministers; UN report warns of “existential threat” to civil liberties; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 31 janvier 2026: ICLMG renews commitment to fight Islamophobia on National Day of Remembrance and Action against Islamophobia; Parents of Canadian held in Syria urge Ottawa to act as prisoners are sent to Iraq; Legal experts warn proposed immigration bill marks shift away from rule of law; Civil Society Initiative Launches Public Consultation on AI; ‘No justification’ for ICE purchase of Brampton-made armoured vehicles, says anti-war group; Israel returns 15 bodies to Gaza as the Israeli military accepts Gaza death toll of 71,667; PBI-Canada continues to monitor the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission systemic investigation of the RCMP C-IRG; Activist Ellen Gabriel warns of ‘propaganda’ as CSIS officials tout agency’s new approach to Indigenous people; At least 6,159 people killed in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests, activists say; ‘Blood-curdling accounts’ of killings and sexual violence: What we know about landmark Rohingya genocide case; Leaked Doc: Homeland Security’s Domestic Terror Obsession; Exclusive: ICE’s Secret Watchlists of Americans; Families of Boat Strike Victims Sue U.S. for “Manifestly Unlawful” Killings; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 17 janvier 2026: What we’ve been up to in 2025, and our plans for 2026!; C-2 surveils, C-9 criminalizes dissent and C-12 strips status — all under the broad banner of “security”; The “Combatting Hate Act” is part of a wave of anti-protest legislation in Canada; Policing Palestine Solidarity: A Crisis of Civil Liberties in Canada (2021-2025); How Canada Arms Israel’s Genocide | Bill C-233 Explained; Seeking Justice for Hassan Diab: Videos from Our 2025 Ottawa Event; Law experts question Ottawa’s terrorism designations for crime groups; Justice Dept. Drops Claim That Venezuela’s ‘Cartel de los Soles’ Is an Actual Group; Iran: UN Human Rights Chief urges authorities to end violent repression and calls for accountability; What’s Behind Trump’s Christmas Strikes on Nigeria? Anti-Christian Genocide or Appeasing MAGA Base?; Either ICE Is Abolished or It Will Kill Many More Renee Goods; Revealed: FBI opened domestic terrorism investigations into anti-ICE activity across US; White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List; “We never feared drones until they killed Omar”; Calling for Closure of Guantánamo after 24 Years – A Joint Statement; Australia’s NSW passes tough anti-protest, gun laws after Bondi attack; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 6 décembre 2025: Updated actions: Stop Moe Harkat’s deportation to torture!; Coalition Calls on Government to Withdraw Rights-Violating Hate Crime Bill C-9; Rights Groups Issue Urgent Warning Ahead of Critical C-12 Vote; Mapping the Threat: How Recent Federal Bills Would Erode Our Rights and Freedoms; Pour un rejet du paradigme du «terrorisme»; World BEYOND War’s Canada Organizer’s Home Raided By Police; Intelligence watchdog facing cuts as Liberals seek new powers for national security agencies; Canada court upholds immigration bar on Iranian over IRGC conscription; Trump’s halting of asylum claims prompts fresh calls to suspend Safe Third Country Agreement; ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants; The War on Terror Set the Stage for Deadly Caribbean Boat Strikes; Trump Administration Starts Process to Designate Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Terrorist Organizations; The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine; How Universities Used Counterterror Intelligence-Sharing Hubs to Surveil Pro-Palestine Students; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 22 novembre 2025: ICLMG speaks at the Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility; ICLMG submits brief on border and immigration bill C-12 to the Immigration committee; ICLMG submits brief on Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, to the Justice committee; NEW ACTION Justice Minister Sean Fraser must act now to end the injustice against Dr. Hassan Diab!; Defending civil liberties, defending democracy – Interview with ICLMG’s National Coordinator Tim McSorley; NEW ACTION Reject Drone Warfare Testing in Downtown Ottawa: No Canadian City should Host War “Games”; Policy Brief: Systemic Bias in CRA Charity Audits – Punishing Solidarity; Canada dispatch: Human Rights Tribunal limits government delay tactics in national security cases; The day pipeline security followed me — and what I learned later about Canada’s spy agency; Canada once spoke out against unlawful American military action. Why it’s time to do so again now; The Toll of Intent: Looking at the Genocidal Impact of Israel’s Assault on Gaza; Counterterrorism review calls for Shamima Begum and other British-linked people in Syria to be repatriated; Dramatic Chicago ICE raid touted as anti-terror win results in no criminal charges; CAIR sues Texas officials over terror group designation; How the 2015 Paris attacks increased police powers and eroded civil liberties; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 8 novembre 2025: Stop C-9: ICLMG testifies at the Justice Committee; Tim McSorley of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group speaks at 2025 CCU Convention; Mapping the Threat: How Recent Federal Bills Would Erode Our Rights and Freedoms; Open letter: Civil Society and Human Rights Groups Reject “National Sprint” on AI Strategy; ACTION Stop Silencing Survivors: Ban National Security Secrecy in Violence Against Women Cases; Open letter: 200+ Muslim organizations across Canada are calling for systemic change at the Canada Revenue Agency; Canada’s Plan to Take in Palestinians from Gaza Is a “PR Show,” Families Say; Gaza genocide: A crime Israel did not commit alone, says Special Rapporteur; CCLA at the Supreme Court of Canada to Defend Freedom of Speech and Debate in Parliament; RCMP watchdog without senior leadership for months, stalling investigations; Administrative measures to counter terrorism must respect human rights: UN expert; Three Hops To Your Doom: As Pete Hegseth pledges to treat South America like al-Qaeda, the administration’s targeting rules accordingly permit indiscriminate killing; Yemen: US air strike on migrant detention centre must be investigated as a war crime; Are You on Trump’s List of Domestic Terrorists? There’s No Way to Know; How Designating Antifa as a Foreign Terrorist Organization Could Threaten Civil Liberties; Pentagon Pete Orders Establishment of New Army of Goons; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 25 octobre 2025: Rejecting Bill C-9, the ‘Combatting Hate Act’ webinar, featuring ICLMG’s Tim McSorley; C-12: Controversial border bill in Canada is ‘about pleasing Trump,’ says non-profit; The Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility, featuring ICLMG’s Tim McSorley; Is Canada complicit in Trump’s illegal war in Venezuela?; ‘Kill them’: Trump says no Congress nod needed to attack ‘narco-terrorists’; “The War Has Not Really Ended”: Gaza Reporter on Israeli Attacks & Reuniting with Imprisoned Brother; Seeking Justice for Hassan Diab: Event in Ottawa, November 14, 2025; CSIS failed to disclose use of new ‘intrusive’ technology to minister and court: watchdog; RCMP admits they “overstepped authority” at Fairy Creek, but will anything change?; Sentencing of land defenders sends ‘chilling message’ about Indigenous rights in Canada; The Danger in Designations: U.S. Terrorism Designation Lists in Gaza and Beyond; FIDH publishes a report on the repression of the solidarity movement with Palestine; First “Antifa” Protesters Charged With Terrorism for Constitutionally Protected Activity; Fighting For LGBTQ Rights is Terrorism Now; Trump “National Police Force” Built on ICE Partnerships With Local Agencies Like… Wildlife Commissions?; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 11 octobre 2025: Bill C-12’s introduction solves none of Bill C-2’s problems; New watchdog report confirms ICLMG’s findings that government approach to counter-terror audits of Muslim charities is flawed, raises substantial concerns of bias and discrimination; Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, risks criminalizing dissent and must be withdrawn; Two years into genocide in Gaza, civil liberties coalition condemns ongoing violence, Canada’s complicity, and attacks on the right to protest; This family applied to leave Gaza on 1st day of Canada’s visa program. 21 months later, they’re still waiting; Canada’s increasingly militarized border pushes migrants into taking riskier routes to claim asylum; Nova Scotia passes law that may allow police to remove Mi’kmaw land protectors; Collateral Damage Podcast: Trump’s War on Drugs; Trump Administration Conjures Up New “Terrorist” Designation to Justify Killing Civilians; Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”; Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy; The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act; US Supreme Court lets Trump strip temporary status from 300,000 Venezuelan migrants; Myanmar junta says it targeted rebels in deadly attack on protest; Security frameworks and terror accusations weaponised to punish cooperation with UN in 62% of reprisals cases across the MENA; UK: ‘New’ police powers to tackle protest yet another attempt to clamp down on human rights; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 27 septembre 2025: Open Letter: Withdraw Bill C-2, the “Strong Borders” Act; CCLA: Bill C-9 Risks Criminalizing Peaceful Protest; Can the United Nations stop Israel? Canada can lead; Canada blocked visa applications without explanation for Gazans fleeing war: lawyer; One year after ICJ ruling, 26 UN experts urge States to confront inaction over Israel’s unlawful occupation; Results of the call to withdraw from “counter-terrorism” summit in Israel amid genocide in Gaza; Not enemies, but people: Why the world needs to rethink the language of war; US Mourns the Victims of 9/11, But What of the Victims of the “War on Terror”?; ‘Killed us twice’: Families of US drone victims seek reparations in Somalia; Where Are the Detainees? Hundreds of “Alligator Alcatraz” Prisoners Disappear from ICE Database; Trump Troop Deployment in U.S. Climbs to 35,000 Boots on the Ground; The War on Terror Template For The Post-Charlie Kirk Crackdown; Declassified Report Belies UK ‘Terrorism’ Designation for Palestine Action; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 13 septembre 2025: Watch the webinar: Stop Bill C-2, the dangerous “Strong Borders” Act; Remembering and confronting the legacy of the “War on Terror,” 24 years on; Submission to the Financial Action Task Force in regard to the Fifth Mutual Evaluation of Canada; Call to withdraw from “counterterrorism” summit in Israel amid genocide in Gaza; Canada is arming Israel — and Liberals can’t stop lying about it; Immediate Action Needed to Fulfill Canada’s Humanitarian Commitment for Gaza Family Reunification; “Uniting for Peace”: How U.N. Could Override U.S. Veto, Send Peacekeepers to Gaza, Block Arms & More; Controversial B.C. RCMP unit to police opposition to fast-tracked resource projects; Canada’s New Minister of AI Must Not Be Naive to Its Harms; 70 leading Canadians, civil society groups ask Carney to protect Canada’s ‘digital sovereignty’; Canada’s border agency plans to use AI to screen everyone entering the country — and single out ‘higher risk’ people; Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians; Trump’s Personal Army? Exec. Order to Create “Quick Reaction Force” Raises Alarm; Judge Blocks Trump’s Late-Night Deportation of Hundreds of Guatemalan Children; Trump’s Union Busting Tests Limits of ‘National Security’ Powers; This Imam Refused to Be an FBI Informant. Now ICE Wants to Deport Him.; National security or xenophobia? Texas restricts Chinese owning and renting property; UK: nearly 900 arrests at Palestine protest shows Government’s disregard for our protest rights; UK: Met police’s facial recognition plans fall foul of European law, says watchdog; et plus.
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News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 16 août 2025: Webinar: Stop Bill C-2, the dangerous “Strong Borders” Act; Featuring ICLMG: Migrant surveillance data no longer has to remain in Canada. That has civil liberties advocates worried; Canada Must Deploy Peacekeeping Troops into Gaza to End Mass Starvation; As Gazans Starve, Families in Canada Struggle to Get Loved Ones Out; The Canadian Company Staffing ‘Alligator Alcatraz’; Recognizing the Tamil Canadian experience in public life; Trump’s Trial Run for a Police State; Trump’s New Secret Directive OKs Military Action in Latin America Under Guise of Drug War; Torture at CECOT: Venezuelan Men Freed from Salvadoran Mega-Prison Describe Brutal Beatings, Humiliation; Trump’s Entry Bans Aren’t About National Security; Guantánamo and Beyond: A Conversation with Human Rights Lawyer Alka Pradhan; One Year On, EU AI Act Collides with New Political Reality; Response to the National Security Strategy 2025 and its Expansion of Powers; Amnesty International UK: Arrests of Palestine Action protesters ‘deeply concerning’; Belarus: Anti-extremism laws put digital rights at risk; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 2 août 2025: Exposing Canadian military exports to Israel; Gazan Man Killed While Waiting on Canada as Son Launches Hunger Strike; “Our Genocide”: Israeli Human Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Destroying Palestinian Society in Gaza; The Great Canadian Rights Grab; Les données des Québécois [et Canadien.nes] hébergées par Microsoft accessibles au gouvernement américain; Canada Awards $169 Million Deal To U.S. Company Sued Over Iraqi Abuse; Mark Carney’s AI agenda is a gift to Big Tech; Faiza Patel: Peering into the ‘Double Black Box’ of National Security and AI; ICE Is Secretly Tracking Millions of Americans; Bush Lawyers’ Legal Arguments for Guantánamo Bay Paved the Way for CECOT; ICE Detained 6-Year-Old with Cancer for Over a Month: “He and His Sister Cried Every Night”; Judge rules against Trump and extends deportation protections for 60,000 immigrants; Palestine Action co-founder wins permission to challenge ban; Authorities jail 108 members of Imran Khan’s party; Pakistan’s rights group demands withdrawal of terror charges against a 7-year-old boy in Balochistan; ‘Grave error’: Why Bombay HC acquitted all 12 convicted in 2006 Mumbai train blasts; Court Dispatch: RICO Charge Dropped in ‘Northumberland 2’ Mink Farm Case; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 19 juillet 2025: Community Forum on Bill C-2, the Strong Borders Act; Canada must end its complicity in torture!; Amnesty International Canada: Action must follow Canada’s tone shift on Gaza; Palestinian Canadians launch sit-ins over visa delays for families trapped in Gaza; Spy agency says it ‘improperly’ shared Canadians’ data with international partners; Manufacturing the Threat – A must-see documentary; 30 States announce unprecedented measures to halt the Gaza genocide at Bogotá conference; Lawyers take EU Commission, Council to court over their ‘failure to act on Gaza genocide’; UN experts urged United Kingdom not to misuse terrorism laws against protest group Palestine Action; “Ideological Deportation”: AAUP v. Rubio Trial Challenges Trump Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Students; ICE Is Planning Mass Extraordinary Renditions; US federal appellate court expands immunity for CIA contractors in Guantanamo detainee case; “Gator Grift”: Hundreds Caged in Inhumane Conditions with No Due Process at Florida Immigrant Jail; ‘Shoot them in the leg’: Kenyan president’s anti-protest rhetoric hardens as death toll rises; Hong Kong: National Security Law analysis shows vast majority unjustly arrested; Podcast: Security or Surveillance? Climate Activism Under Watch in France: Part 1 “The disaster is here”; Time for Rightsizing: Change is Coming to the UN Counterterrorism System; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 21 juin 2025: Over 300 Organizations Unite to Demand Complete Withdrawal of Bill C-2 + Take action!; Passport and visa details could be shared with police, U.S. under border bill, critics warn; CSIS request for protester’s personal details raises red flags, watchdog says; Prime Minister Carney must take decisive action to end genocide in Gaza; Il est minuit moins une pour le peuple palestinien : le Canada doit radicalement changer d’approche; Israel Turns Gaza Aid Distribution Sites Into Open Killing Fields; Israel’s U.S.-Backed Aggression Reaches Its Iraq-War Moment; Under Pressure From Pro-Israel Groups, Canadian Cities Are Restricting Protest; Canada and India to share terrorism intelligence despite 2023 murder plot, says report; UK – International lawyers sound alarm over counter-terror laws against Filton 18; Podcast: The LA Protests and the Imperial Boomerang w/ Forever Wars’ Spencer Ackerman; Trump team plans to send thousands of migrants to Guantanamo starting as soon as this week; Input to UN Special Rapporteur on Counterterrorism and Human Rights for upcoming report on the human rights impacts of administrative measures to counter terrorism; and more.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 7 juin 2025: New Border Bill Raises Major Concerns for Civil Liberties, Privacy, and Refugee Rights; What we’ve been up to from January to May 2025 and our plan for the rest of the year; Groups mount legal challenge against Ottawa over refugee treaty with US; Human Rights Commission to Hear Discrimination Complaints of Canadians Detained in Syria; Critics say Ottawa harmed progress on intimate partner violence by invoking national security in case of assault by elite soldier; NDP statement on Canada’s response to the genocide in Palestine; Protest challenges CANSEC weapons show in Ottawa; thirteen arrested at demonstration upholding international laws; “Death Traps”: U.S.-Israeli Aid Scheme Paused in Gaza After 100+ Palestinians Killed While Waiting for Food; The U.S. launched 16 jets from the USS Harry S. Truman to drop 125,000 pounds of bombs in Somalia, killing 14; What exactly is Trump’s new travel ban about? Not national security; Trump’ immigration crackdown is leaving children terrified and ‘truly alone’; How Student Protesters and Immigrants Became Targets of Trump’s Surveillance Tech; “Panic, Terror, Chaos, Trauma”: SCOTUS Ruling Lets Trump Strip Protections for 500K+ Immigrants; Judge rules Trump’s deportations to El Salvador under Alien Enemies Act were illegal; Trump’s Big, Beautiful Handout to the AI Industry U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data; CIA Interrogator Said Infamous Black Site Looked “Like A Nazi Concentration Camp”; How the FBI and Big Ag Started Treating Animal Rights Activists as Bioterrorists; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 24 mai 2025: ICLMG & The Defend Dissent Coalition oppose Ottawa bubble by-law; Liberal government must prioritize strong, unequivocal action to protect civil liberties and human rights during time of turmoil; Syria: New urgency to end unlawful detention system holding tens of thousands of people following Islamic State defeat; Genocide in Gaza: The time for words is over, the time for action is now; Her husband and kids were given safe passage to Canada. She’s living in a tent in Gaza; As Trump Tours Mideast, Palestinians Report War-on-Terror-Like Torture in Israeli Jails; Gaza. Pour en finir avec la « guerre contre le terrorisme »; « Postes de police chinois » : quand la couverture médiatique blesse une communauté; UN: Start Talks on Treaty to Ban ‘Killer Robots’; Letter to the Prime Minister Urging Leadership on Refugees and Immigration; The “Invasion” Lie, The Intelligence Purge and The Threat to Habeas Corpus; Trump Is Building a Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE; Podcast: Migration, AI and The Rise of the Machines; Project Esther: NYT Details Right-Wing Plan to “Rebrand All Critics of Israel” as Hamas Supporters; Trump admin claims donating to LGBTQ+ rights group undermines national security; UK special forces veterans accuse colleagues of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan; UK anti-terrorism tsar calls for anti-dissent laws; et plus!
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 10 mai 2025: Canadian Government Files Motion to Strike (Dismiss) Our Case; Stop Repressive Protest Bans!; Toronto police move to upgrade facial recognition technology, raising concerns; ICE shows Canadians the frightening path the RCMP is on; Airlines Are Collecting Your Data and Selling It To ICE; How about a foreign policy that is truly a force for good?; Podcast: Maher Arar – The Syrian Revolution and Interrogation & Torture in Syrian Prison; Two months of cruel and inhumane siege are further evidence of Israel’s genocidal intent in Gaza; Pentagon May Have Drawn on Anonymous Social Media Accounts in Planning Deadly Yemen Attack; “A Dangerous Escalation”: India Bombs Pakistan in Intensification of “Forever War” over Kashmir; ‘Killer Robots’ Threaten Human Rights During War, Peace: Urgent Need for Treaty on Autonomous Weapon Systems; Entrenching Authoritarianism: Expanding the Terrorism Framework and the Infrastructure of Surveillance to Repress Expression and Stifle Dissent; Migrant Torture at Guantanamo Authorized by Trump Administration Memo; Three U.S. Citizen Children, including 4-Year-Old Battling 4th Stage Cancer, Deported to Honduras; Haiti: How US terrorist designations could deepen criminal rule and humanitarian tragedy; Judge: Trump’s national security reasoning for anti-union EO was ‘pretext for retaliation’; Why I wrote an expert report against the UK classing Hamas as a terror group; UK’s Border Security Bill: When Solidarity Becomes a Crime (video); EU’s secretive “security AI” plans need critical, democratic scrutiny, says new report; et plus!
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 26 avril 2025: Updated ICLMG’s Election 2025 : National Security Info Card; CSILC : Le Canada doit se dissocier du régime de sécurité nationale des États-Unis et protéger les droits, les libertés et les personnes vulnérables; Action: These Kids Need Their Moms: Canada Must Immediately Evacuate Doaa and Nariman from Gaza; Family of 4 jailed in U.S. for weeks after Canadian border guards turned them away; Poilievre’s plan to deport residents under the pretense of hate crimes is not leadership. It’s dangerous politics; Canadian lawyers borrow from U.S. playbook to quash Palestine solidarity; Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow and City Council: Vote against any anti-protest “bubble” bylaw; Green Party deputy leader and Fairy Creek land defender appealing to the Supreme Court of Canada; Israel Is Using Suicide Drones to Target Displaced Palestinian Families Sheltering in Tents; Why Does “National Security” Always Mean More War, Not More Health Care?; Pete Hegseth Is Gutting Pentagon Programs to Reduce Civilian Casualties; Can a U.S. Citizen Be Deported? Trump’s Comments Raise Legal Alarms; If Trump flouts the Abrego Garcia rulings, the Constitution is done; What is a ‘criminal’ immigrant? The word is an American rhetorical trap; OFAC Alert on Cartel Designations: Growing Risks to Nonprofits from the Expanded Use of Counter-Terrorism Frameworks via FTO Designations; By Weaponizing Arrest Records and Suspending Due Process, the Trump Administration Has Targeted Over 1,000 Foreign Students; Trump’s Social Media Surveillance: Social Scoring by Another Name; Guantanamo Judge Rules Government Cannot Use Confession Obtained Through Torture in 9/11 Capital Case; From Atlanta to Kashmir, States Weaponize Counterterrorism Frameworks to Target Social Justice Movements; Tunisia: Crackdown on dissent intensifies with arrest of human rights lawyer following verdict in sham trial; UK student charged under counter-terror laws for protesting Gaza genocide; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 12 avril 2025: ICLMG: Canada must disentangle from the US national security regime, and protect rights, freedoms and the vulnerable; For a Canada as welcoming as we are; Tim McSorley: Government Proposal to Fight “Online Harms” Presents Dangers of its Own; ICLMG 20th anniversary publication: In Closing; UN experts urge end to ISIL-related arbitrary detention in North-East Syria and accountability for international crimes; Nineteen Years of Injustice: Demand Freedom for Huseyin Celil; The Copernic Affair: The professor accused of a Paris bombing; Iran-born Canadians denied US entry; Activists Occupy Global Affairs Office, Call For Israel Arms Embargo; OCHA, UNICEF, UNOPS, UNRWA, WFP, WHO and IOM: World must act with urgency to save Palestinians in Gaza, top UN officials say; Under Primacy, Weapons Sales Will Always Supersede Human Rights; Hamas Launches Unprecedented Legal Case in Britain, Demanding the Government Remove its Terror Designation; Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules; Trump Appears to Be Targeting Muslim and “Non-White” Students for Deportation; El Salvador And The Dark Lessons of Guantanamo; Homeland Security revokes legal status for migrants who entered U.S. using CBP One app; The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI; Civil Society Organisations Face Backlash After Trump, Musk Link USAID Grantees to ‘Terrorism’; Under Trump and Musk, billionaires wield unprecedented influence over US national security; 12 ‘terrorists’ killed in drone strikes by Pakistani forces, nine civilian deaths reported; This is Repression: Annual State of Protest UK Report 2024; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 29 mars 2025: Xan Dagenais: COVID, Surveillance and Defending Privacy Rights; Maureen Webb: Mobilizing Against Surveillance on the International Scene; Ontario’s police force using ‘growing ecosystem’ of Israeli spyware – report; Roger Clark: Hassan Diab’s Nightmare and the “Fascist Agenda”; BCCLA Statement Against the Systemic Suppression of Support for Palestine; “The Target is Unmistakable”: The Shooting of Gaza’s Children; Costs of War: Lessons from Fallujah: War Returnees Face Long-Term Health Risks from Heavy Metal Exposure; 10 Years of War on Yemen: Leaked War Plan Chats Overshadow U.S. Deadly History Targeting Yemen; How the ‘war on terror’ paved the way for student deportations in the US; Faisa Patel: U.S. AI-Driven “Catch and Revoke” Initiative Threatens First Amendment Rights; How a Landlord and a Florida PR Firm Helped Trump Kick Off the Tren de Aragua Gang Panic; U.S. to revoke legal status of more than a half-million migrants, urges them to self deport; The FBI Is Investigating Attacks on Tesla as ‘Domestic Terrorism.’ Here’s Why That Matters; Lawyers and Courts Must Not Back Down as President Trump Issues Executive Order Calling for Sanctions and Investigations of Attorneys and Law Firms; 1,400+ Arrested in Turkey as Erdoğan Jails Istanbul Mayor & Intensifies Authoritarian Crackdown; Pakistan: Systematic attacks and relentless crackdown on Baloch activists must end; Regional organisations must respect and promote human rights while countering terrorism: UN expert; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 15 mars 2025: Brenda McPhail: Facial Recognition Technology: Rights, Risks and Required Regulation; David Lyon: The ICLMG and Surveillance Studies at Queen’s University; Ronald Deibert: The U.S. Wants Canada to Become A Police State; Canada-U.S. Cross-Border Surveillance Negotiations Raise Constitutional and Human Rights Whirlwind under U.S. CLOUD Act; The Canadian Guide to Understanding and Combatting Islamophobia: For a more inclusive Canada; Electric shock equipment widely abused by law enforcement agencies due to alarming lack of regulation; Activists take protest to the doorstep of Canada’s Defence Minister after repeatedly ignoring calls for action; US, Israel want to displace Palestinians from Gaza to East Africa: Report; Trump’s “Genocidal” Threat to Gaza: If Hamas Won’t Release Hostages, “You Are DEAD”; Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is A War on Terror Milestone; An All-American Nightmare: How to Build a Deportation Machine in the Age of Trump; Tesla Takedown: Protests Grow Across the U.S. as Trump & Musk Brand Activists as Terrorists; Myanmar: Four years after coup, junta increases legal restrictions and continues its persecution of political prisoners; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 1er mars 2025: ICLMG: Canada must abolish the rights-violating terror entities list; ICLMG welcomes commitment to tackle prejudiced audits of Muslim-led charities in Canada from Liberal leadership contender, calls on others to follow suit; CBSA complaints commission still not up and running – interviews with ICLMG & CCR; Patricia Poirier: Information Clearinghouse on Border Controls and Infringements to Travellers’ Rights; Alex Neve: Without Effective Review, Human Rights Remain Tenuous; Internal report urged Canada to counter rhetoric about a ‘crisis’ at border; Brandi Morin in Ecuador part 3: Bullets and beatings support Canadian mine; RCMP caused ‘serious interference’ with press freedom in 2020 Wet’suwet’en raid, review body finds; CUASA: A Letter to the Carleton Community in Support of Dr. Hassan Diab; Gazan families sue Canada for visa application delays; CJPME joins 230+ organisations in urging F-35 partners to stop arming Israel; Detained, Dehumanized, Forgotten: The Endless Cycle of Guantánamo; UN experts: Belarus government committed crimes against humanity to suppress opposition; Vietnamese government declares human rights organisation as a terrorist group; Thailand: ‘Deportation’ of Uyghurs to China ‘unimaginably cruel’; Hong Kong To Tighten Union Rules To ‘Protect National Security’; Apple removes advanced data protection tool in face of UK government request; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 14 février 2025: Carleton University Fails to Counter Smears Against Hassan Diab; Joint Letter on the UK Government’s use of Investigatory Powers Act to attack End-to-End Encryption; Janet Dench: Upholding the Rights of Asylum Seekers; Tim McSorley: A Victory for Citizenship Equality!; Abdelrazik’s lawyer cites ‘serial hypocrisies’ in final detention case arguments; As Trump’s anti-migrant push gains steam, advocates urge Canada to act; Immigration lawyers accuse Ottawa of stalling on visa approvals for thousands of stranded Gazans; US proposal to ‘take over’ Gaza would shatter fundamental rules of international order, warn UN experts; Trump the “Peacemaker” Ramps Up America’s Forever War in Somalia; Center for Constitutional Rights Challenges Trump Migrant Flights to Guantánamo, ICC Sanctions & More; Corey Saylor: What America’s Muslims can teach you about resisting political oppression; Spencer Ackerman: Elon Musk and The Security State’s Uvalde Moment; Surveillance Without Scrutiny: Trump’s PCLOB Purge Could Be Highly Consequential; Noura Erakat: The Boomerang Comes Back; Craig Murray: UN Censures UK Abuse of Terrorism Act; Australia – Mandatory sentencing is not the answer; Philippines: Terrorism-Financing Charges Abused India: NGOs call on the EU to take action on urgent human rights concerns; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 1er février 2025: Eight years since the Quebec City Mosque massacre: ICLMG renews commitment to fight against Islamophobia; Hogue Commission succeeds in setting the record straight on foreign interference, but misses opportunity to highlight government failure to protect civil liberties; Lutter contre l’ingérence sans bafouer les droits; Justin Mohammed: The Fight for the Return of Canadians Detained in Northeast Syria; Khadija Cajee: Kids on Canada’s No-Fly List; Matthew Behrens: Canada Must Urgently Process Gaza Visa Applications During Ceasefire Window; After the ceasefire, Israel is still acting with impunity; It’s time for Canada to withdraw from the Safe Third Country Agreement; Owen Schalk: Forced disappearances in Kandahar show need for Canadian Afghanistan Papers; Hassan Diab: An Innocent Man Scapegoated by Lies and Disinformation; India detaining, ejecting Canadian man is the latest example of revived ‘blacklist’ for Sikhs: experts; A climate activist was deported from Canada — a first; Mass Deportation’s War-on-Terror DNA; Trump moves to close Pentagon office focused on curbing civilian deaths; America’s gulag’: Trump’s Guantánamo ploy tars migrants as terrorists; VICTORY! Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional; A decade of attacks on our democratic rights – a timeline; Australia – Excessive Force, Special Powers, and Misinformation Characterise Policing of DLF Protests, Report Finds; Russia: Special Rapporteur appalled by prison sentences to punish Navalny lawyers; Six UN Special Rapporteurs to the Italian Government: Human rights concerns over the “Security Package” Bill; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 18 janvier 2025: ICYMI: What we’ve been up to in 2024 and what we have planned for 2025!; ICLMG comments on Justice Committee report on Islamophobia; ICLMG comments on the first pilot project for Canadian land border pre-clearance in the United States; Civil society groups push to ensure effectiveness of coming border agency watchdog; Canada urged not to sign deeply flawed UN Cybercrime Treaty; Matthew Behrens: An Excess of Democracy and the Case for Hope; Roger Clark: Loss of Human Rights in the ‘War on Terror’: The Case of Hassan Diab; Video: 16 Canadians believed to be still detained in Syrian jails; Speculation, not facts, used against terrorism suspect Harkat, his lawyer tells judge; Abdelrazik’s lawyer accuses former minister of exiling him by denying him a passport; Former diplomat alleges Canadian Forces were involved in disappearances of hundreds of Afghan detainees in Kandahar; The Citizen Lab’s submission on Bill C-26 to the Senate Standing Committee on National Security, Defence and Veterans Affairs; Canada must champion peace and human rights in the Philippines; Le soutien aux réfugiés de la Palestine, une obligation morale, une affaire de dignité, un devoir d’humanité; ‘No Civilians. Everyone’s a Terrorist’: IDF Soldiers Expose Arbitrary Killings and Rampant Lawlessness in Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor; The Many Afterlives of the Sept. 11 Attacks; Nigeria’s Military Gets Billions in U.S. Aid. On Christmas Day, It Bombed Its Own Civilians Again; Amnesty International demands Tehran halt execution of Kurdish activist; Police Use of Face Recognition Continues to Wrack Up Real-World Harms; UN expert expresses concern over ‘continued misuse’ of Türkiye counter-terrorism law; Egypt: Special Rapporteur concerned about use of anti-terrorism legislation against human rights defenders; Swansea mother ‘traumatised’ by arrest under Terrorism Act; Italian security decree “most serious attack on right to protest in recent decades”; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 7 décembre 2024: ICLMG testifies on Bill C-63: The Online Harms Act is still harmful; ICLMG testifies: Bill C-353 is unnecessary, and would have broad negative consequences; ICLMG reiterates its support for Hassan Diab, wrongfully convicted in unfair trial; Sophie Lamarche Harkat: What 20 Years of Injustice has Meant for Us; Alex Neve on watching CTV documentary on Jack Letts’ parents fight to bring him back home; Spy service pushed for Abdelrazik’s inclusion on Canadian no-fly list, court hears; IJV Condemns Police Repression Against Palestine Solidarity Movement; Refugees welcome? Comparing Canadian policy on Palestinian and Ukrainian refugees; Amnesty International Investigation Concludes That Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza; No to UN Cybercrime Convention: When “cybercrime” laws infringe human rights: lessons from the Arab region; UN: Renew a Standing Application of the Humanitarian Carve-out as Applied to the 1267 ISIL/al-Qaida Regime; It’s Time for the US to Ditch ‘Terrorism’ Designations Altogether; Defense Secretary strips Guantánamo official of power to reach settlements, after 9/11 plotter controversy; Video: Europe’s killing machine must be stopped; Kurdish community demand answers after raids on members’ homes and Kurdish Community Centre; Pakistan: Amnesty urges halt to anti-terror bill; How the militarisation of mining threatens Indigenous defenders in the Philippines; New documentary: Ronan Farrow on surveillance spyware: ‘It threatens democracy and freedom’; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 23 novembre 2024: New independent review body for CBSA welcome, but falls short – interview with ICLMG; Pamela Palmater: Canada’s National Security Practices Part of Genocide Against First Nations; Jen Moore: Canada and Criminalization in the War Over Land and Nature; Senator Kim Pate, Alex Neve, Hadayt Nazami: Human rights matter for us all; Canada must protect Hassan Diab from renewed smear campaign and death threats; CSIS did not want Abdelrazik to return to Canada, former diplomat tells court; CCLA on the Federal Cybersecurity Bill: Cybersecurity Should Not Undermine Civil Liberties; Joint letter: Urgent changes needed to Canada’s Temporary Residence Visa Program for Gazans; Four pro-Palestinian protesters arrested for allegedly blocking road; The Most Dangerous Domestic Antiterrorism Bill Since The PATRIOT Act; Homeland insecurity: the rise and rise of global anti-terrorism law; Amnesty International: Write for Rights!; Special Rapporteur urges Security Council to renew humanitarian exemption to counter-terrorism sanctions; Biden’s AI Spying Rules Are A Last Gift of Power To Trump; America’s Shadow War in Yemen Has Its Own Racist Military Swag; Abu Ghraib Verdict: Iraqi Torture Survivors Win Landmark Case as Jury Holds Private Contractor CACI Liable; Five killed in Turkish drone strikes on PKK members in northern Iraq; 45 activists sentenced in Hong Kong national security case. The longest term is 10 years; Imran’s close aide and former Pakistan foreign minister, 20 others indicted by court; Action: Saudi Arabia must release Mohammad bin Nasser al-Ghamdi immediately and unconditionally; Cara and Celeste, charged with eco-terrorism, accused of freeing mink from fur farm, are out of jail; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 9 novembre 2024: Letter to Minister Joly: Urgent Call for Independent Investigation into the Death of Canadian Citizen FJ; Canada’s terror list enables Israeli terror – Webinar featuring ICLMG’s Tim McSorley; RCMP plans to go undercover online to trap violent extremists; CSIS, Duty of Candour and Immunity for Illegal Activities; Confronting the CRA’s Prejudiced Audits; Palestinian-Canadians Take Federal Government to Court for Genocide Convention, Charter Rights Violations; Yves Engler: If it is bad for India to kill ‘terrorists’ abroad, why isn’t it for Israel?; Human Rights Groups Alarmed that Former Deputy Chief of VPD Selected to Investigate Allegations of Illegal Mass Surveillance and Excessive Use of Force Complaint; CSIS agent who briefed minister says he has no idea why Abdelrazik was denied travel document; New Podcast: The Copernic Affair (Official Trailer); RCMP national security unit monitored ‘threats’ linked to Wet’suwet’en anti-pipeline activism, records show; CCLA Condemns Government of Ontario’s Proposal to Imprison the Innocent; La désobéissance civile au service des droits humains; La “frénésie” autour de l’ingérence étrangère jette une ombre sur la communauté chinoise; Kenya: Security Forces Abducted, Killed Protesters; Law to ban UNRWA amounts to criminalization of humanitarian aid; ACLU Asks Supreme Court to Hear Guantánamo Attorney’s Lawsuit Challenging CIA’s Excessive Secrecy; ‘Ecoterrorism’ Bail Hearing in Pennsylvania Mink Farm Case; The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan urges government to scrap anti-terror bill; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 25 octobre 2024: Canada’s terror list enables Israeli terror: Oct 29 webinar featuring ICLMG’s Tim McSorley; Joint Brief on Bill C-20, the Public Complaints and Review Commission Act; Policy submission to the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference; Dominique Peschard: Fighting Anti-terrorism Legislation + A Victory for Humanitarian Assistance; Azeezah Kanji: The Dangerous Seductions of the ‘Anti-Racist’ Racist State; ‘Demanding an autopsy’: Mother of 6 dies in deportation centre after Canadian government refuses to repatriate her from Syria; Abdelrazik wipes away tears in court as he recounts time in Sudanese detention; Former special ops soldier says he faced ‘retaliation’ for reporting alleged killing of Afghan civilians; Canada ordered to make decision on residency applications by two Uyghurs after decade-long delay; The U.N. Must Do More to Protect Civil Society From the Abuses of Counterterrorism; Mohamad Bazzi: Israel’s killing of Hamas’s leader should mean an end to this war. It probably won’t; Pakistan – Fourth Schedule: Combating terrorism or silencing dissent?; Turkey’s Crackdown on Students and Women: Criminalising Ordinary Life; Philippines: Authorities increasingly using Facebook to stifle young activists’ right to freedom of expression and protest; The FBI’s weapons of mass destruction program has a new target: Animal rights activists; ACLU Warns that Biden-Harris Administration Rules on AI in National Security Lack Key Protections; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 11 octobre 2024: ICLMG condemns one year of genocide, reiterates call for permanent ceasefire, respect for life and human rights; What To Do About Foreign Interference: Nick Robinson in conversation with Tim McSorley; Introduction to Defending Civil Liberties in an Age of Counter-terrorism and National Security; Roch Tassé: The ICLMG’s Beginnings and the Commissions of Inquiry; Canada’s terror list targeted against those opposing Israeli terror; Extradition Reform and the Hassan Diab Case: An Interview with Don Bayne; What’s in Bill C-63, and why we are alarmed; CCLA Testifies On Bill C-20 Before Senate Standing Committee on National Security, Defence, and Veterans Affairs; Legal action underway to force Canadian Forces to release propaganda documents; The killing of Hassan Nasrallah and how the west legitimised its use of assassination; After 23 Years. It’s Time to End the War on Terror for Good; Jammu & Kashmir: New report details India’s land rights violations since the abrogation of statehood; Pakistan: Authorities must immediately revoke ban on Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement; Niger: New Terrorism Database Threatens Rights; EU: Definition of “potential terrorists” opens door to broad information-sharing; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 27 septembre 2024: 20 Years of Defending Civil Liberties: Publication launch & online panel!; 20 ans de défense des libertés civiles: Lancement & panel francophone montréalais; What To Do About Foreign Interference: Nick Robinson in conversation with Tim McSorley on Oct 1st; Abdul Nakua: Bill C-70 could further erode minority rights; Two Canadians with ties to Ottawa killed in Lebanon; Report from Beirut: Israel Is “Targeting Everyone” in Bombing Campaign, Killing 700+ in Just Days; Report launch: Challenges and Consequences: The Impact of Bill C-41 on Aid Delivery in Afghanistan; Q and A with Paul Champ on the Abdelrazik case; Iraq hangs 21 mostly on ‘terror’ charges: security sources; They protested a military base expansion. So the FBI investigated them as terrorism suspects; UK Using Terrorism Law To Silence Journalists, Protestors Who Commit ‘Speech Crimes’; Teens Jailed In Venezuela Post-election Crackdown Plead For Freedom; India: FATF raps government on the risk to abuse that non-profits face; Hong Kong: T-shirt sedition sentencing shows malice of new national security legislation; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 14 septembre 2024: Defending Civil Liberties in an Age of Counter-terrorism and National Security; Online Harms Conference featuring ICLMG’s Tim McSorley; Understanding Bill C-70: Beyond a National Security State (video); Civil society coalition urges Canada to stop all arms transfers to Israel; Crown seeks closed-door hearings for lawsuit claiming feds contributed to Canadian’s torture; Justice for Hassan Diab: Update on Parliamentary Petition e-4901 and Open Letter to the Minister of Justice; Report Launch – Challenges and Consequences: The Impact of Bill C-41 on Aid Delivery in Afghanistan; CRCC Releases Summary of a Public Complaint Review of RCMP C-IRG Enforcement Actions at Fairy Creek, BC; 23 Years After 9/11, Are We Any Safer?; Security Theater: Marine veteran Adam Straus reviews Richard Beck’s “Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life”; Special Rapporteur calls for justice for victims on anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks; Terrorism and human rights – Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; Don’t Hype the Terror Threat: The Dangers of Official Alarmism; Turkey’s political dissidents face arbitrary prosecutions, report says; Encryption FAQ: encrypted messaging, AI, content moderation, et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 30 août 2024: New ICLMG online event: Twenty Years of Defending Civil Liberties From the Impact of Counter-terrorism; Fareed Khan: Canada shows it doesn’t really care about stopping genocide; Alex Neve: One year on: My shaken but determined belief that human rights will prevail in Northeast Syria; Green Party of Canada Stands Against the Extradition of Dr. Hassan Diab; National security agencies should explain how they’re using AI: federal advisory body; Who saved Chinese Family Services?; BC’s Secretive Plan to Tighten Protest Response; ‘This is what the US military was doing in Iraq’: Photos of 2005 Haditha massacre finally published; UN report calls for UK to pay reparations over Prevent abuses; Stop the Crackdown in Bangladesh!; Venezuela: Ongoing arbitrary detentions, disproportionate use of force fuelling climate of fear, Türk warns; Joint Statement: EU Should Press India to End Rights Abuses; Kazakhstan: Unjustified ‘Financing Terrorism’ Restrictions; China: UN rights office reiterates need to review national security framework; A Global Treaty to Fight Cybercrime—Without Combating Mercenary Spyware; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 16 août 2024: How Canada’s ‘off-the-record’ arms exports end up in Israel; Israel’s ‘War on Terror’ and the Legal and Security Imperative to Comply with International Law; Andrew Clement: Feds fail to justify spending billions of dollars on AI that mainly benefits industry insiders; CCLA on R. v. Pike and Scott; RCMP hired private spies to monitor Fairy Creek activists; New law paves way for justice for prisoners convicted in flawed trials in north-east Syria; U.S. had never apologized to Somali drone strike victims — even when it admitted to killing civilians; Spencer Ackerman: The Cowardice of Lloyd Austin; Bangladesh on Brink as Anti-Government Protests Become ‘People’s Uprising’; Jeux olympiques : Fichage de masse et discrimination politique; How the Philippines is using anti-terrorism laws to freeze disaster NGOs; An Australian federal police counter-terrorism operation targeted a 13-year-old with autism; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 25 juillet 2024: Groups representing minorities say they’re alarmed by foreign interference legislation; LNG is an intelligence operation: TC Energy has spies, soldiers, even a former CIA director pushing pipelines and fracking in B.C. But they’re not invincible; Universities, police spread ‘jaw-dropping’ misinformation about encampments; Feds were warned about setting ‘significant precedent’ with Ukraine visa program; The spy who kept notes: Pulling back the Cold War curtain on Canada’s ignominious history of anti-communism; Anti-Terrorism Laws Are Being Used Against Environmentalists; Natasha Lennard: The Only Kind of “Political Violence” All U.S. Politicians Oppose; ‘Terrorist Organization’ – Israeli Knesset Passes First Reading of Bills to Ban UNRWA; Iraq Hangs 10 ‘Terror’ Convicts; Paris Olympics security sweep upends lives; Sri Lanka: False Terrorism Cases Enable Repression; AANES releases 180 terrorism-related prisoners in Syria’s Hasakah; Head psychologist defends CIA waterboarding of inmates in 9/11 case; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 12 juillet 2024: ICLMG to Public Safety Minister: Stop Mohamed Harkat’s deportation to torture once and for all!; Rushed Passage of C-70: An Urgent Wake-Up Call; Dimitri Lascaris: Is Canada’s parliament concealing embarrassing information about Canada’s allies; Public Safety Saw No Evidence Linking Palestine Rallies To ‘Hamas Call’ Even Though There Was An Attempt To Conflate These Protests With Support For Hamas; Press release: Fight continues against secret hearings in challenge to CSIS spying on environmental groups; Lost Childhoods: The Ongoing Plight of Children in Detention Camps in Northeast Syria; ‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza; Spencer Ackerman: Biden Must Abolish War on Terror Now or We Risk Trump’s Political “Retribution” Campaign; Assange deal undermines claims that leaks cause harm; More than 10 years later, the Senate Torture Report is still secret: I filed a lawsuit to obtain the 6,700-page report with “excruciating detail” about the CIA’s abuses; Civil Rights Advocates Achieve the Nation’s Strongest Police Department Policy on Facial Recognition Technology; More than 40 activists jailed for life in UAE for ‘terror’ offences; Hong Kong’s biggest national security trial: Mitigation pleas begin for 47 democrats; Does the Terrorism Prevention Branch prevent terrorism?; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 21 juin 2024: Charter Rights Under Threat as Parliament Fails to Fix Foreign Interference Bill; Fahad Ahmad & Jeffrey Monaghan: Painting Arabs and Muslims as a threat to Canada is irresponsible; States and companies must end arms transfers to Israel immediately or risk responsibility for human rights violations: UN experts; Owen Schalk: Canada is still blocking aid to Afghanistan; ‘In prison because of our parents’: Children of alleged ISIS fighters coming of age in detention ask what they’re being punished for; New UN Special Rapporteur’s Report Underscores Risks of Abusive Counterterrorism; UAVs continually kill civilians, but the U.S. military wants to expand its arsenal with an army of new, mass-produced kamikaze AI drones; International People’s Tribunal: US, Marcos & Duterte Guilty of Massive War Crimes; Arundhati Roy ‘anti-terror’ charge part of a push to silence Modi’s critics; Anti-terrorism court judge accuses Pakistan’s spy agency ISI of harassing him and his family to get desired verdicts; Paris Olympics crowd scans fuel AI surveillance fears; Signal: New Branding, Same Scanning: “Upload Moderation” Undermines End-to-End Encryption; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 7 juin 2024: Alarmed groups urge MPs to extend study of troubling new foreign interference bill; What we’ve been up to so far in 2024; A call for Canadian support for the ICC’s work with respect to Palestine/Israel; Palestine Legal Warns Against Escalating Efforts to Weaponize Terror Laws and Suppress Advocacy for Palestinian Rights; Citizen Lab: Ottawa wants the power to create secret backdoors in our networks to allow for surveillance; Canadian Jack Letts has been illegally detained without charge for 2,582 days in Northeast Syria; Canada’s war in Afghanistan; Last chance: Sign the parliamentary petition for justice for Hassan Diab before June 10th; Amina Shareef: Dismantle the knowledge systems that enable genocide; What does the death of a jailed Jesuit priest say about India’s democracy under Modi?; Iraq Hangs Eight Convicted Of ‘Terrorism’: Sources; Guantánamo Scandal: Eleven Men Were Set To Be Freed Last October, Until ‘Political Optics’ Shifted After Hamas’ Attack On Israel – OpEd; 14 pro-democracy activists convicted, 2 acquitted in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case; European Court of Human Rights: Important decision against mass surveillance; As DHS Implements New AI Technologies, It Must Overcome Old Shortcomings; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 25 mai 2024: Joint letter urges Justice Minister to split Bill C-63, the new Online Harms Act; Muslim charities want a tough talk with the CRA; Priorité au registre et au respect des droits; Joint statement condemning police brutality at the University of Calgary & the University of Alberta; Canadian immigration asks medical worker fleeing Gaza if he treated Hamas fighters; Canada’s focus on overhyped future threats of AI miss the harms already being perpetuated against us; Omar Khadr loses battle against teen war crimes conviction as U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear appeal; Former Liberal ministers urge Trudeau to drop plans to house migrants in federal prisons; The U.S. held Saeed Bakhouch at Guantánamo Bay for 20 years without charge, then sent him to have his rights violated in Algeria; Who’s a “potential terrorist or violent extremist threat”? Plans to exchange information about “future” criminals; Mass executions in Iraq under anti-terrorism laws of ‘great concern’, UN envoy says; Sri Lanka’s killing fields cast a long shadow; No Justice for Crackdown in Tajikistan’s Autonomous Region Two Years On; Philippines: Commission on Human Rights lauds Supreme Court decision calling red-tagging ‘threat to life, liberty and security’; Turkey sentences pro-Kurdish politicians to lenghty prison terms over deadly 2014 riots; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 11 mai 2024: Provisions of new foreign interference bill will have much broader consequences on rights and freedoms in Canada; Canadian coalition calls for urgent action to uphold civil liberties and Charter rights at protests and encampments across the country; Arms Embargo on Israel Now; Lawyer seeks Immediate Repatriation for Canadian Detainee on Imminent Flight out of Northeast Syria; Canada Issues Fourth Forcible Child Separation Ultimatum to Mothers Detained in NE Syria Prison Camps; ‘The world is too messy for bureaucratic hurdles’: Canada still bars Afghanistan aid; Court concludes curbing parliamentary immunity of spy watchdog members is constitutional; Report Reveals Serious Human Rights Violations as First Quantum Enters Annual Shareholder Meeting; Special Toronto screening of Manufacturing the Threat; Watchdog calls out ‘gaps’ in how Canada conducted online intelligence operations; Nigeria has gotten billions in U.S. security assistance even as its counterterrorism campaign has a massive civilian death toll; Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail of Palestinians in shadowy detention center; ACLU: A disturbing national security bill could silence nonprofits and college protests; Former Guantánamo Bay detainee faces re-victimisation in Algeria, UN experts say; Lawsuit by Abu Ghraib Torture Survivors Ends in Mistrial Even as CACI’s Role Made Clear in U.S. Court; Met police to pay ‘five-figure sum’ to French publisher arrested under anti-terror laws; European Court gives notification to Türkiye of second batch of 1,000 applications concerning convictions for terrorism offences based on use of ByLock messaging application; Russia: UN Human Rights Chief troubled by increasing crackdown on journalists; Makabayan officer, activists push back vs anti-terror law complaint filed by military; Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years in prison for ‘support’ of women’s rights; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 27 avril 2024: Key stakeholders call for withdrawal of controversial AI legislation; Border agency eyes smartphone facial recognition system amid privacy concerns, feat. ICLMG’s Tim McSorley; Feds don’t ‘care if they die,’ says lawyer helping Canadian children held in Syria; Syria: Mass death, torture and other violations against people detained in aftermath of Islamic State defeat; Extradition: The Search for Huseyin Celil (podcast); Canada To Host Tests Of Israeli Arms Tech Used On Palestinians; ‘Secret’ drone installation to be built at Uplands, federal records reveal; One Year on From French Court INJUSTICE, Hassan Diab Remains Unprotected and in Limbo; UN Special Rapporteur comments on the “repression and persecution” faced by Indigenous water protectors in Canada; Montreal Chinese community centres serve RCMP with $5M defamation suit over ‘police station’ allegations; US-trained Burkina Faso military executed 220 civilians; Iraq: At least 13 people executed amid alarming lack of transparency; Spencer Ackerman: Now The Students Are “Terrorists”; US trial unveils horrors of Abu Ghraib scandal, decades later; “Enormous Expansion of the Law”: James Bamford on FISA Extension, U.S.-Israel Data Sharing; Prosecutor Says Sept. 11 Suspects Can Be Held Past War Crimes Sentence; Exporting Prevent: The UK government’s complicity in rights-violating counter-extremism programmes in Indonesia; What happens when activists are branded ‘terrorists’ in the Philippines?; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 13 avril 2024: Sanaa Ali-Mohammed and Monia Mazigh: Politicking in the face of genocide: A uniquely Canadian performance; Alex Neve: Exceptional application asks SCC to reconsider case of Canadians in Northeast Syria + Updated ICLMG action; Letter to the Honourable Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Regarding Hassan Diab + New parliamentary petition; The federal government’s proposed AI legislation misses the mark on protecting Canadians; We Spied on the Spies Who Spy on Activists; Military drone installation to be built in Ottawa – DND says exact location will remain secret; Israel Created ‘Kill Zones’ in Gaza. Anyone Who Crosses Into Them Is Shot 20 years later, Abu Ghraib detainees get their day in US court; The CIA’s Long and Dangerous History of Refusing to Answer Absurdly Obvious Questions; Opinion: Why India Might Want to Pursue Transnational Killings; Opinion: Russia’s Terrorism Laws Target Everyone But the Real Threat; Écoutes, géolocalisations : de plus en plus de personnes sont surveillées en France; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 29 mars 2024: URGENT: Send a message to Mélanie Joly for Hassan Diab; Ensemble pour Gaza et la Palestine! Ensemble pour la justice et la paix!; States must adhere to obligations under Genocide Convention to prevent further loss of life in Gaza, says Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese; Canadian spy agency’s big data program is breaking the law: review body; Families of Canadians Detained in Northeast Syria Ask Supreme Court for Reconsideration of Appeal; How Can There Be a Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference When Much Relevant Information Is Classified “Top Secret”?; Chief Na’Moks: The RCMP’s specialized C-IRG unit exists to crush Indigenous resistance; Attempt to Advance Environmental Consultation for Atico’s Mine in Ecuador Brings Renewed Criminalization, Police Repression, and Militarization; Rampant abuse of counter-terrorism laws threaten human rights globally, warns UN expert; Rethinking Risk: Reducing Harm to Nonprofits in the Push to Counter Terrorism Financing; The changing face of protest; Spencer Ackerman: The TikTok Ban Is Security State Protectionism; Musk’s SpaceX is building spy satellite network for U.S. intelligence agency, sources say; Pakistan says 8 killed in its anti-terror airstrikes in Afghanistan, Taliban condemns attack; Putin has repeatedly used terror attacks to tighten his grip on Russia; Hong Kong’s new national security law enforced for first time; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 16 mars 2024: ICLMG’s Submissions to the Foreign Interference Consultation; Open Letter Urged Canadian Government to Reject Private Sector Carve-Out in Council of Europe AI Convention Negotiations; Lawsuit filed against Canadian government to stop arms exports to Israel; UNRWA report says Israel coerced some agency employees to falsely admit Hamas links; Reasonable Cause to Suspect: A Discussion on a Hidden Human Rights Crisis; Seeking Truth: The Hassan Diab Awareness Event; Government Gaslighting Again?: Unpacking the Uncomfortable Reality of the Online Harms Act; RCMP C-IRG assisted North Vancouver detachment after injunction prohibits protests on highway overpass; Surveillance and the Global War on Terror: Muslims and 21st-Century Racism; “Everything is by the Power of the Weapon”: Abuses and Impunity in Turkish-Occupied Northern Syria; “They Should Be Beaten and Skinned Alive”: The Final Phase of India’s War on Kashmiri Civil Society; The EU AI Act: a failure for human rights, a victory for industry and law enforcement; What’s in the UK’s new definition of ‘extremism’; Socialism, anti-fascism and anti-abortion on Prevent list of terrorism warning signs; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 2 mars 2024: 75+ Canadian civil society organizations – including ICLMG – call on Ministers Joly, Hussen, and Miller to “Stop Genocide or Resign”; Arms exports to Israel must stop immediately: UN experts; Israel Kills 104 Palestinians Waiting for Food Aid as U.N. Expert Accuses Israel of Starving Gaza; The Anti-Palestinian Origins of The War on Terror; ICLMG’s submission to the Privacy Commissioner’s consultation on biometrics guidance; AI bill ‘democratically illegitimate’ and litigation ‘likely’ without proper consultations, say AFN, civil society orgs; CCLA Urges Substantial Amendments to the Online Harms Act; New federal security restrictions: CAUT warns of negative impact on research and researchers; Canadian court finds Likhts’amisyu Clan Wing Chief Dsta’hyl guilty of criminal contempt for upholding Wet’suwet’en law; Military worried fake wolves exercise, pandemic propaganda efforts undercut public trust: documents; Turkiye conducted 4 drone strikes on NES, killing 3, wounding 2; State urged to resist use of ‘exceptional’ measures to tackle terror and extremism; The United States must be held accountable for its ‘war on terror’ crimes; I was taken from Australia as a boy to live under IS in Syria. Now I want to come home; Environmental activism under the EU counter-terror microscope; Spain: Terrorism charges against protesters undermine “international human rights and democratic standards”; Report: Prevent and the pre-crime state: How unaccountable data sharing is harming a generation; Russia: Surge in abuse of anti-terrorism laws to suppress dissent; Saudi Arabia: Release forcibly disappeared woman facing trial for supporting women’s rights online; Q&A: The Citizen Lab’s John Scott-Railton on tackling the ongoing threat of Pegasus; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 17 février 2024: Civil Society Coalition Urges Canada To Stop Arms Transfers To Israel; Matthew Behrens: Canada’s temporary residence program for Palestinians from Gaza has serious flaws; Canadian police muzzle advocates for peace; Maha Hilal: Israel, the United States, and the Rhetoric of the War on Terror; National Day of Remembrance of the Québec City Mosque Attack and Action Against Islamophobia; Reasonable Cause to Suspect: Book Launch and Discussion on a Hidden Human Rights Case; Canada Must Put an End to This 15-Year Miscarriage of Justice; Amend or Reject: 100+ groups call for crucial changes to UN cybercrime treaty; ICLMG on new Privacy Commissioner’s report on RCMP’s “open source” internet surveillance under Project Wide Awake; Shiri Pasternak: Why is the RCMP taking civil-liberties advice from pipeline company lawyers?; Exclusive: Information commissioner finds feds withheld details of relationship with private spy agency; ICLMG on the Emergencies Act federal court ruling; Drone strikes in Burkina Faso killed scores of civilians; Türkiye’s Strikes Wreak Havoc on Northeast Syria; Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Author Q&A with Dr. Maha Hilal; Sunsetting the War on Terror — Or Not: The Stubborn Legacy of America’s Response to 9/11; After 22 Years of Human Rights Abuses, the U.S. Government Must Close the Military Detention Camp at Guantanamo Bay; National Security Carve-Outs Undermine AI Regulations; U.S. terrorist watchlist grows to 2 million people — nearly doubling in 6 years; UN expert condemns UK crackdown on environmental protest; UAE Confirms Trial Against 84 Detainees; Ahmed Mansoor Suspected Among Them; The Tragedy Of India’s Authoritarian Descent: The Case of Prabir Purukayastha; et plus.
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News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 6 janvier 2024: Canada must end potential genocide complicity by suspending arms exports to Israel; CJPME condemns arbitrary limitations on Gaza family reunification and bigoted statements from Canadian officials; Jeremy Scahill: This Is Not a War Against Hamas; Canada Has Quietly Announced Plans to Buy Killer Drones; Stop Moe Harkat’s deportation to torture today!; Advocates urge full public consultation on controversial AI legislation; UPR4: Which recommendations should Canada reject, which should it accept and how to implement them; Amnesty International Says CGL and the RCMP Violated Indigenous Rights; Secret Indian memo ordered “concrete measures” against Hardeep Singh Nijjar two months before his assassination in Canada; Dennis Edney, lawyer for former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr, dead at 77; Head of RCMP’s advisory board resigns, citing frustrations with federal government; The US’s “Global War on Terror” never ended; Riseup4Rojava calls for an immediate response to Turkish attacks on Northern and Eastern Syria; Brian Toohey: The greedy jaws of national security; UK supreme court rules Guantánamo ‘forever prisoner’ can sue the government under English law – here’s why it matters; Prevent: Rise in climate activists referred to anti-terror scheme; Greece: Report on National Intelligence Service’s activities: Demonisation of migration and targeting organisations defending human rights; Somalis Whose Relatives Were Killed by U.S. Strikes ‘Have Yet To Receive Acknowledgement’; In a Major Snub to Obama, Biden Is Sticking With Trump When It Comes to Cuba Policy; FTC Must Investigate Meta and X for Complicity with Government Surveillance; UN travel surveillance system needs “pause and urgent review”, says Special Rapporteur; France and six European states unite to authorise spying on journalists; Pak court issues arrest warrants to over 100 activists of Imran Khan’s party over May 9 violence; India bans pro-Pakistan separatist party over alleged terrorism support; Tunisian journalist serving five-year sentence subjected to appalling conditions in prison; Philippines: Groups denounce continued attacks vs activists, ‘drug war’ killings under Marcos; Hong Kong offers awards for arrests of activists abroad for breaching national security law; et plus.
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News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 9 décembre 2023: Another year of injustice: Stop Moe Harkat’s deportation to torture today!; ICLMG’s new statement & action: Canada Must Oppose Genocide in Gaza and Defend Free Expression at Home; Canadian Public Servants Angered By Government’s Anti-Palestinian Bias; “Mass Assassination Factory”: Israel Using AI to Generate Targets in Gaza, Increasing Civilian Toll; European governments donors’ discriminatory funding restrictions to Palestinian civil society risk deepening human rights crisis; Tim McSorley Speaks with the CCU on Artificial Intelligence; Licence to break the law: More Canadian spies get permission to commit crimes, memo shows; A ‘predator’ at CSIS: Officers allege rape, harassment and a toxic workplace culture; Tools capable of extracting personal data from phones being used by 13 federal departments, documents show; New report by Citizen Lab finds serious Charter concerns with proposed federal cybersecurity legislation, Bill C-26; European Parliament sidelined in adoption of new travel surveillance agreement with Canada; ‘The Judge Sided with Peace’: Supporters celebrate as the first Coastal GasLink criminal trial ends in a not guilty verdict; New open access book: Intelligence Oversight in Times of Transnational Impunity: Who Will Watch the Watchers?; Lina Chawaf: The forgotten war in Syria; 88 dead after military drone mistakenly strikes festival in Nigeria’s Kaduna State, local officials say; The United States’ Forever Wars Yield a 75,000% Increase in Terror Attacks; The Enduring Surveillance Act of 2023; India accidentally hired a DEA agent to kill Sikh American activist, federal prosecutors say; Police Can Spy on Your iOS and Android Push Notifications; Family of last Afghan held in Guantanamo calls for his release; Russian court sentences Ukrainian ex-soldier to 12 years on ‘terrorism’ charges; Australia: Labor’s new laws to re-detain migrants at risk of reoffending to be modelled on Coalition’s anti-terror orders; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 25 novembre 2023: IJV Canada: A Temporary Pause Is not Enough; Canadian government issued with notice of intention to seek prosecution of Canadian politicians for complicity in war crimes in Gaza; In Toronto: Jews Say No to Genocide Coalition Condemns Arrests In Regards to Indigo Postering, Calls for All Charges to be Dropped; Adviser warns UK government against tightening laws on glorifying terrorism; Inaction by Design?: The Case of Canadians Trapped In North East Syria; 15 Years of Injustice: How Much More Must Hassan Diab Endure?; Calling for end to Canada’s support for Philippines counter-terrorism campaign; New Canada PNR Agreement to be adopted today at the EU-Canada Summit; Secret intelligence documents show global reach of India’s death squads; For a century, the American way of war has meant killing civilians; Cop City Protest Tear-Gassed as Activists Face “Unprecedented” RICO & Domestic Terrorism Charges; UN Committee against Torture publishes findings on Burundi, Costa Rica, Denmark, Egypt, Kiribati, Slovenia; Tunisia: Reject Bill Dismantling Civil Society; Revealed: plan to brand anyone ‘undermining’ UK as extremist; Europol deletes NoBorder initiatives from terror report, Dutch police doesn’t see them as “extremists”; LexisNexis sold powerful spy tools to U.S. Customs and Border Protection; US Congress Report Calls for Privacy Reforms After FBI Surveillance ‘Abuses’; Trump Wants to Use the Military Against His Enemies. Congress Must Act; Australian military whistleblower pleads guilty over Afghan Files leak; The State of Human Security in the UK; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 11 novembre 2023: Joint Statement against the attack on free speech and the labelling of pro-Palestinian rallies as ‘hate rallies’; Amnesty International: Peacefully protesting against injustice in Israel/OPT is not a threat to security; How Israel Is Repeating The U.S.’ Post-9/11 Mistakes; Traumatized by Turkish Airstrikes: Testimonies from Rojava; Canada’s legislation on facial recognition tech is dangerous, say civil society groups and scholars; ICLMG denounces Bill C-27 national security exemptions at parliamentary hearing; ICLMG on Senate report: Combatting Hate: Islamophobia & its impact on Muslims in Canada; Minister intervenes in deportation of man facing death sentence in Egypt; Calling for refusal of possible second extradition of Hassan Diab; Event Summary: “From Policy to Practice: Implementation of the Global Study on the impact of counter-terrorism on civil society and civic space”; A coalition of 6 organisations takes EU’s dangerous terrorist content regulation to court; Amnesty calls for Prevent strategy to be abolished over ‘human rights abuses’; Second investigation to open into role of British spies in torture of Guantánamo detainee; France says five-year conviction for citizen held in Iran ‘unacceptable’; The Adverse Impact of Counter Terrorism Laws on Human Rights Defenders and FATF Compliance in India; Oregon Police Obsessively Spied on Activists for Years, Even After Pipeline Fight Ended; Craig Murray: Incredibly, I Face Investigation for Terrorism; Reclaiming Security Webinar Series: Putting people & planet at the heart of national strategies; NEW ACTION: Canada: Remove the national security exemptions from Bill C-27!; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 28 octobre 2023: ICLMG: Canada must support human rights and civil liberties in Gaza and at home!; Azeezah Kanji: The Architecture of Anti-Palestinian Elimination: Legal Fallacies, False Analogies, and Inverted Realities; To guarantee our rights, Canada’s privacy legislation must protect our biometric data; Fahad Ahmad & Baljit Nagra: India’s accusation of ‘terrorism’ is a ploy to hide its own human rights abuses; Gar Pardy: The Canadian ship of state leaks again; When Political and Judicial Factors Collide: Dr. Hassan Diab tells his story; Podcast: Judge rules CRA audit of Muslim charity biased but fails to stop it; Exploring Systemic Islamophobia in Canada; MP stopped from boarding Air Canada flight as ‘his name was Mohammad’; Human rights violations while countering terrorism are systematic across the globe: UN expert; War on the ‘Women’s Revolution:’ Turkish Drone Strikes Target Feminist Leaders; Myanmar junta gives 6 men life sentences under martial law; How criminalisation is being used to silence climate activists across the world; The Fictional Terrorist Conspiracy Being Tried in France; French interior minister pushes for encryption ‘backdoors’ in mobile apps; Cory Doctorow: Why Big Tech, Cops, and Spies Were Made for One Another; US Regresses on Torture and Guantanamo at Treaty Review; Overdue Scrutiny for Watch Listing and Risk Prediction; Belarus misuses counter-terrorism and anti-extremism legislation to stifle dissent: UN expert; Australia: Law Council questions continuation and expansion of extraordinary counter terrorism measures; UN experts say Sri Lanka’s counter-terrorism bill fails to heed their recommendations, status quo fundamentally unchanged; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 13 octobre 2023: Mémoire sur le projet de loi C-27, la Loi de 2022 sur la mise en œuvre de la Charte du numérique; ‘The devil’s in the details, and we don’t have any’: critics, civil liberties groups decry feds’ lack of clarity on changes to privacy and AI bill; Confront 9/11 Politics And They Can Be Defeated; Independent Jewish Voices Calls for a Ceasefire and Systemic Change in Palestine-Israel; Global calls for immediate action to halt Turkey’s ‘war against humanity’ in North and East Syria; EVENT: When Political and Judicial Factors Collide: Dr. Hassan Diab tells his story; Gitxsan Hereditary Chiefs march in Vancouver to demand the dismantling of controversial RCMP C-IRG unit; BCCLA at Ontario Court of Appeal to intervene in Canada v Alford to promote accountability and transparency in national security oversight; Joint call by the UN Secretary-General & the Red Cross for States to establish new prohibitions and restrictions on Autonomous Weapon Systems; Somalia: US’s hidden and forgotten forever war; ‘Newburgh Four’ Terrorism Case Releases Show Dire Need for FBI Reforms; Gitmo detainees continue to be tortured by CIA physically, mentally: Attorney; Iraq: Torture Survivors Await US Redress, Accountability; Indian police arrest a news site’s editor and administrator after raiding homes of journalists; UN human rights experts ‘troubled’ over Hong Kong’s 47 democrats trial under national security law; France – Affaire du 8 décembre : L’antiterrorisme à l’assaut des luttes sociales; UN: Human rights concerns over two draft laws in Sri Lanka; Why your data might already be on a Europol list; ‘Predator Files’ spyware scandal reveals brazen targeting of civil society, politicians and officials; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 29 septembre 2023: Joint statement on urgent need for action to ensure accountable, independent and effective review of the RCMP and CBSA in Bill C-20; Canadians deserve to be protected from AI overreach, but Bill C-27’s Artificial Intelligence and Data Act is not up to the task; ICLMG’s Brief on Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Implementation Act; Global civil society and experts statement: Stop facial recognition surveillance now; Canadian tech company allegedly implicated in foreign spying received millions from Ontario government; Fearing Ethnic Cleansing, 90,000 Armenians Flee Nagorno-Karabakh After Azerbaijan Military Blitz; India raids 53 sites nationwide as crackdown on Sikh separatists deepens; India: Government weaponizing terrorism financing watchdog recommendations against civil society; British Volunteers Killed in Ukraine Were Prosecuted for Backing Kurds Against ISIS; Spain: The Prosecutor’s Office now considers ‘Extinction Rebellion’ and Futuro Vegetal as “terrorist” groups; Lawsuit by Islamic rights group says US terror watchlist woes continue even after names are removed; Guantanamo ‘forever prisoner’ files lawsuit against CIA torture architects; RICO and Domestic Terrorism Charges Against Cop City Activists Send a Chilling Message; U.S. Counterintel Buys Access to the Backbone of the Internet to Hunt Foreign Hackers; France : le harcèlement judiciaire contre la journaliste Ariane Lavrilleux est une atteinte intolérable à la liberté de la presse; Interpol: multi-million dollar “predictive analytics” system under construction; Bangladesh: Government must cease enforced disappearances, stop harassment of the victims’ families and hold perpetrators accountable; “If We Raise Our Voice They Arrest Us”: Sri Lanka’s Proposed Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Philippines: Global rights groups assail terror law misuse; Time to revoke death penalty for social media dissent, UN experts urge; How Hong Kong Authorities Are Using National Security Law to Target Dissidents; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 16 septembre, 2023: 22 Years Later: The Continuing Impact of the War on Terror on Human Rights in Canada; MAC gives its “Friend of the Community” award to Tim McSorley and ICLMG; The Ontario Superior Court Confirms Bias in CRA Audit but Delays Justice for the Muslim Association of Canada; Mother of Canadian man detained in Syria ‘overjoyed’ to get word of son following Canadian delegation visit of the camps; Une experte de l’ONU décrit l’enfer que vivent des enfants canadiens détenus en Syrie; Procès de l’attentat de la rue Copernic à Paris. Les dessous d’un verdict annoncé; CAUT issued warning to its researchers: “You do not have a legal obligation to talk to a CSIS officer”; Playbook for RCMP’s Wet’suwet’en raids provided by former U.S. commander in Iraq and Afghanistan; Quand la police «produit la menace» au nom de la sécurité; Canada and Saudi arms exports; The Canadian government’s poor track record on public consultations undermines its ability to regulate new technologies; The ‘war on terror’ lives on 22 years after 9/11; Human Rights and Security Coalition Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee Review of the United States of America; Judge throws out confession of bombing suspect as derived from torture; 9/11 Families Like Mine Want Plea Agreements to End Indefinite Detention at Guantanamo; “A Political Prosecution”: 61 Cop City Opponents Hit with RICO Charges by Georgia’s Republican Attorney General; EFF: End unconstitutional government spying on Americans; Documents Reveal Widespread Use of Fake Social Media Accounts by DHS; Saudi Arabia: Man Sentenced to Death for Tweets; Russian Journalist Jailed 17.5 Years for ‘Financing Terrorism’; Explainer: Hong Kong’s national security crackdown – month 38; Pakistani rights activist Ali Wazir and lawyer Imaan Mazari jailed on terror charges; Philippine intelligence agency links gay-rights, youth groups in anti-communist campaign; International arrest warrant issued for former Tunisian officials on terrorism charges; UK: Criminalising dissent: how the police label political protest as a “threat”; Australia: Labor’s counter-terror laws may stifle ‘political dissent’, Law Council warns; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 18 août 2023: ICLMG raises significant concerns in submission to federal anti-terrorist financing consultation; Canada is condemning citizens in Syrian camps to ‘life sentence,’ UN rapporteur says; National security committee submits classified report about RCMP federal policing; Il faut renforcer la Loi sur l’intelligence artificielle et les données avant son adoption; Launch of the Global Study on the Impact of Counter-Terrorism on Civil Society & Civic Space; 2023 Palestine Delegation: Report; How the Israeli right cynically exploits the word ‘terror’ for its political ends; It’s Time for the U.S. to End the War on Terror; Will Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Finally Get Their Day in Court? CACI Lawsuit Will Proceed to Trial; The Lawfare Podcast: How is it that torture-obtained evidence still seems to be being used in certain GTMO cases?; Pregnant Woman’s False Arrest in Detroit Shows “Racism Gets Embedded” in Facial Recognition Technology; What is end-to-end encryption and how does it work?; Australia: Home affairs tried to water down report critical of ‘extraordinary’ counter-terror powers, documents reveal; Rizwaan Sabir : Ernest Moret & the double-standards of UK counterterrorism; Lithuania declares more than 1,000 Belarusians and Russians to be national security risks; Activist or terrorist? How Filipino authorities blur the line; Foreign diplomats in China treated to tour of Xinjiang and ‘happy’ Uyghurs; Hong Kong national security police arrest 10 linked to 2019 protester relief fund; Venezuela: UN experts condemn use of counter-terrorism laws to convict trade unionists and labour leaders; 2 youths held for posting video of Pakistan’s Independence Day; The Dissident: Umar Khalid Challenged Modi’s Anti-Muslim Agenda. India Accused Him of Terrorism and Locked Him Up; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 4 août 2023: Justice for Hassan Diab Press Conference + Petition signed by 10,000 delivered to PMO; ICLMG comments: Ottawa mosque has charity status restored; Espionage, terrorism, plotting against governments? Numbers offer a glimpse of Canada’s security screening — and its problems; Gar Pardy: The Law and its Absurdities; Wet’suwet’en leaders highlight RCMP C-IRG violence in presentation to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; Armed Drones Killing in Palestine! Armed drones purchase underway in Canada!; Canada funneled arms to Saudis during Yemen war via opaque U.S. program; Trudeau is striking a new National Security Council, but what will it do?; New book: War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine; Wagner group disappeared and executed civilians in Mali; UN Cybercrime Convention Negotiations Enter Final Phase With Troubling Surveillance Powers Still on the Table; Despite U.S. guarantee, Guantanamo prisoner released to Algeria immediately imprisoned and abused; The Forever War’s forever legacy: Shutting down Guantánamo is hardly the last step; “FBI-Orchestrated Conspiracy”: Judge Orders Release of 3 of Newburgh 4 Tied to Fake NY Bomb Plot; After his mother asked for help, FBI terrorism sting targets mentally ill teen; Meet the Colorado Springs Activist Suing the FBI & Police After Being Targeted by Undercover Agent; Biden Goes All In On FBI/NSA Mass Surveillance; Department of Homeland Security’s Use of “Domestic Violent Extremism” Negatively Impacts Civil Rights and Liberties; Final EU negotiations: we need an AI Act that puts people first; From Napoléon to Macron: How France learned to love Big Brother; ‘We Are Hiding in Forests’: Fear in Uttar Pradesh’s Rohingya Camps After Anti-Terrorism Squad Arrests 74; Al Jazeera slams naming of its journalists on Egypt ‘terror’ list; Philippines: Makabayan bloc slams government use of anti-terror law to solve crimes; Anti-terrorism raps vs Southern Tagalog activists alarm group; Tunisia: Human rights at risk two years after President Saied’s power grab; Hong Kong Court Says Protest Song is Matter of National Security; “We condemn the arrest of Russian intellectual Boris Kagarlitsky” et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 22 juillet 2023: 650+ individuals call on Prime Minister Trudeau to say “No” to a 2nd extradition for Hassan Diab; Lettre commune: Le Canada ne doit pas extrader Hassan Diab à la demande de la France; Canada’s ‘Counterinsurgency Doctrine’ Is Up For Review. It Warns About Labour Unrest; Journalist asked for RCMP bodycam footage from Fairy Creek protest. Two years later, their answer is: “No.”; Top-secret security committee reports challenges accessing information from government; We’re in an AI hype cycle—can Canada make it a responsible one?; Palestinian teenager killed by Israeli sniper during Jenin raid was unarmed, CCTV footage shows; The Cost of Consensus in the Eighth Review of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy; Countering counter-terrorism policies: tools of ‘repression and reprisal’; A new global cybercrime treaty risks becoming yet another legal instrument to punish and muzzle the press; Closing Guantanamo Bay Prison Won’t Erase the Crimes Committed Against Muslims; FBI hired social media surveillance firm that labeled BLM organizers “threat actors”; “Only good part of the NDAA”: New Legislation Would Close a Fourth Amendment Loophole; Trump revives “Muslim Ban” while GOP courts Muslim voters for 2024; France: Empêcher l’accès à la bassine quel qu’en soit le coût humain; The Australian climate protesters cast as extremists; UK police shouldn’t have stopped French publisher under anti-terror laws, an independent review says; Apple slams UK surveillance-bill proposals; Terrorism trial of 17 Kurdish journalists, media worker begins in Turkey; Philippines government designates as terrorists 4 Cordillera IP activists; Hong Kong Prosecutors Gain New Powers In National Security Trials; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 8 juillet 2023: What we’ve been up to so far in 2023: Help us protect civil liberties for the rest of the year!; Action: The Canadian government is attempting to purchase and deploy its first fleet of armed drones; Civil society under attack: A United Nations global study on counter-terrorism and civic space; ICLMG comments on the new defence committee report on cybersecurity and cyberwarfare; Government powers under Canada’s proposed cybersecurity law should be limited: Rights groups; Welcomed by Canada for defying a dictator, Syrian activist now considered a security risk; Canada Issues Third Forcible Child Separation Ultimatum to Mothers Detained in NE Syria Prison Camps; Constitutional Rights and Wrongs: Why We Must Stop Hassan Diab’s Extradition (video); Bill to create watchdog for border agency still in limbo as travel season picks up; Review of Departmental Implementation of the Avoiding Complicity in Mistreatment by Foreign Entities Act for 2020; Under Fire: Report from Jenin Refugee Camp on Israel’s Largest West Bank Attack in 20 Years; Parliamentary event on targeted human rights sanctions with a focus on Turkey; Expert welcomes historic visit to United States and Guantánamo detention facility and affirms rights of victims of terrorism and victims of counter-terrorism; Remembering Guantánamo’s Dead On 17th Anniversary Of An Implausible ‘Triple Suicide’; Domestic terrorism charges in Georgia are prompting concern over political repression; Civil society urges UK to protect global digital security and safeguard private communication; Met police admit downloading sim of French publisher, lawyer claims; Tunisia: Crackdown on media freedoms; Anti-terrorism court extends judicial remand of 17 women leaders of Imran’s party; Tajikistan: UN experts deplore criminal proceedings against human rights defenders; National security law: Hong Kong Authorities arrest 4 men and offer HK$1 million bounty for 8 activists abroad; Myanmar junta sentences LGBTQ activist to 10 years in prison; UN report calls on Saudi Arabia to release 2 women jailed over tweets, alleging rights abuses; After 63 Days In Jail Under Anti-Terrorism Law For Poem On Defiance, Assam Poet Now Writes Odes To Love; Council of Europe must not water down their human rights standards in Convention on AI; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 24 juin 2023: Bill C-41: Changes to anti-terror laws a step forward on humanitarian aid, but leave other forms of vital international assistance behind; Civil Society Statement on Bill C-20; Civil liberties groups recommend fixes for controversial cybersecurity legislation ahead of detailed Commons scrutiny; Joint Letter of Concern: In reply to the ETHI Committee’s FRT & AI Report and the Government’s Response; Human Rights Advocates Discuss Upcoming Trip to Syrian Detention Camps; Prime Minister Trudeau: Say “No” to a second extradition for Hassan Diab!; MPs call for reform of Canada’s extradition system to avoid ‘further injustices’; More than 130 civil society organizations send an open letter to the Prime Minister on STCA; ‘Hamoudi’s gone’: Palestinian village reels after Israeli soldiers kill toddler; Calls for solidarity, as Turkish drones assassinate members of the Kurdish women’s movement; New and emerging technologies need urgent oversight and robust transparency: UN experts; New UN Security Council Resolution on “Human Fraternity” Raises Human Rights Concerns; Twenty Years Too Many: A Call to Stop the FBI’s Secret Watchlist; How DHS is Fueling Georgia’s “Terrorism” Crackdown on Cop City Protests; After GOP pressure, FBI abortion “terrorism” investigations increased tenfold, government data shows; The FBI groomed a 16-year-old with “brain development issues” to become a terrorist; Prosecutors Disclose Discovery of Secret Guantanamo Prison Videos; US intelligence confirms it buys Americans’ personal data; ‘Encryption protects our rights, privacy is not a crime’; French government outlaws climate activist group; German police raid climate activists who blocked traffic; Action: Release those wrongfully detained in Algeria; Pakistani journalists abroad face terrorism investigations at home; Tunisia bars TV, radio reports of opposition conspiracy cases; Myanmar court convicts journalist injured by army on 2nd charge, extending jail term to 13 years; India: UN body demands immediate release of Khurram Parvez; Hong Kong student indicted over social media posts made from Japan; Majority Of Canada’s Non-U.S. Military Exports Go To Anti-Democratic Regimes; UK universities and the further development of killer robots and more.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 10 juin 2023: Canada must not bow to French demands to extradite Hassan Diab; Over 130 members of Canadian legal community call on Trudeau government to deny French extradition request in case of Hassan Diab; New CBSA and RCMP watchdog: ICLMG’s concerns and recommendations; ICLMG reacts to troubling court decision on Canadians indefinitely detained in northeast Syria; Federal Court of Appeal Perpetuates Torture and Arbitrary Detention of Four Canadians in NE Syria; Website for the CSO coalition on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism is live; MPs must say no to agency request for powers to spy on your bank and travel records; Against democracy: A brief history of CSIS; End Canada’s support to the counter-terrorism campaign in the Philippines; Canadian Muslim charity wins ‘milestone’ settlement after being falsely accused of funding terrorism; ‘We are being treated like trash’: Afghan-Canadians sue Ottawa, claim immigration rules are discriminatory; Our London Family: Two Year Commemoration; The Mounties: 150 years of conflict with Indigenous Peoples; Did Canada Fail to Protect a Human Rights Defender Assassinated for His Opposition to a Canadian Mine in Mexico?; Niger’s cycle of deadly violence raises questions over US counter-terror role; UN group says systematic imprisonment at Guantanamo in violation of international law; When Protest Is ‘Terrorism,’ Material-Support Charges Are Next; Abolish Section 702; The Harvard of anti-terrorism: how Israel’s military-industrial complex feeds the global arms trade; Political leaders blast push for Kashmiri separatist leader to get death sentence; Iran begins trial of journalist who covered Mahsa Amini’s death; Amnesty International expresses concerns over Sri Lanka’s continued use of draconian anti-terrorism laws; En France, une vague d’arrestations contre le mouvement écologiste radical; France: Affaire du 8 décembre: Le chiffrement des communications assimilé à un comportement terroriste; Europe fixed its poor intelligence sharing. Now it’s a privacy risk; Reporters Without Borders: Macau national security law threatens residents and journalists; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 26 mai 2023: RCMP, Islamophobia, and the “War on Terror”; Shiri Pasternak: The campaign to abolish the RCMP unit called C-IRG; ‘Death Outlives War’: Analysis Estimates Post-9/11 US Conflicts Killed Over 4.5 Million; Canada’s extradition law desperately needs reform; Mansoor Adayfi: In search of Saeed: From Guantanamo to an Algerian prison; A foreign influence transparency registry could cause more harm than good; Amnesty International Global Report: Death Sentences and Executions 2022; Journalists are under threat at border zones; FBI broke own rules in January 6 and BLM intelligence search, court finds; DHS and FBI Depict Vegan Activists as Potential Domestic Terrorists; Inside the Pentagon’s new “perception management” office to counter disinformation; The U.S. still owes money to family of 10 Afghans it killed in “horrible mistake”; Turkish drone kills three YBS fighters in Iraq – Kurdish authorities; Tunisia: Ghannouchi sentencing marks aggressive crackdown on Saied opposition; Tunisian Journalists Protest Anti-Terror Laws; Pakistan Anti-Terrorism Court Allows Military to Prosecute 16 Supporters of Ex-PM Khan; Anti-War Activist In Moscow Gets Seven Years In Prison On Terrorism Charge; Open Letter to the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union: Ensuring the protection of fundamental rights on the AI Act; EU rules allowing “exceptional” use of spyware against journalists need “fine-tuning”; UK: Criminalizing Dissent – a bonfire of liberties; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 13 mai 2023: Des associations juives canadiennes et françaises sont solidaires avec Hassan Diab; Call to prevent any extradition of Dr. Hassan Diab; ICLMG supports new bill to increase CSIS accountability; Open Letter: Protect our rights to privacy, free expression and press freedom; Citizenship was a right. Is it now a privilege?; Faisal Kutty: The CRA’s biased approach to Eid celebrations; New book: Manufacturing Threats: Case Studies of State Manipulation and Entrapment in Canada; Intelligence watchdog questions cyber agency’s approach to international law, CSE insists it was above board; Documents related to Canadian Forces propaganda program have disappeared — investigation is under way; Brandi Morin: Stranded on the dark roads of Wet’suwet’en territory with CGL security; Experts want Canada’s proposed law to include stronger privacy and human rights protections; The foreign influence registry could fail a Charter challenge; Israel Kills 13, Including Women & Children, in Airstrikes Targeting Militant Leaders in Gaza; Human rights experts alarmed over ‘imminent executions’ in Saudi Arabia; ‘The forever prisoner’: Abu Zubaydah’s drawings expose the US’s depraved torture policy; ‘Crimes against humanity’: UN body calls for release of Guantánamo inmate; U.S. Domestic Terrorism Prosecutions: The Reality Behind the Government’s Inflated Numbers; DHS Rebrands and Expands Biased, Ineffective Countering Violent Extremism Program; US ‘war on terror’ feeding global anti-Muslim feelings – scholar; Explainer: Hong Kong’s national security crackdown – month 34; Lasso’s Anti-Terrorist Operations Raise Concern in Ecuador; Widespread protests in Sri Lanka highlight unified opposition to Anti-Terrorism Act; UN Human Rights Chief urges UK to reverse ‘deeply troubling’ Public Order Bill; Tunisia: Move to Dismantle Country’s Largest Opposition Party; No to spyware: media, civil society demand ban on tech used for human rights abuses; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 29 avril 2023: NDP calls for Liberals to block extradition of Dr. Hassan Diab; ICLMG: Canada must protect Hassan Diab; Alex Neve and Robert Currie: Up to Canada to end 15 years of injustice for Hassan Diab; ICLMG testifies on cybersecurity and cyberwarfare at the National Defence Committee; ICLMG: Privacy, technology and surveillance: What to watch for; What happened to women, teens missing from repatriation flight? Family receives proof of life from Syria; Reasonable Cause to Suspect by Sally Lane review – my son, the enemy of the state; ‘A chilling effect’: Muslim charities fall prey to Canada’s double standards; NDP plans humanitarian exemption amendment for bill easing aid restrictions; Canadian Surveillance Under the Microscope; Ben & Jerry’s wants this contentious RCMP unit abolished; Azeezah Kanji: Charges Against Stop Cop City Protesters Continue Terror of “Anti-Terrorism; Oregon Domestic Terrorism Law Targets the Far Right. Here’s How It’ll Backfire; The US and the War Crimes in the War on Terror; Leaked tape reveals how spy camera firm used ex-U.S. official to cover up Uyghur abuses; ‘Chilling’ arrest of French publisher by UK counter-terrorism police condemned; Turkey: Hands off the HDP; Myanmar’s “counter-terrorism” by-laws must be denounced for what they are – illegal; Monitor reporter’s trial opens: Why India treats journalists as terrorists; China Reveals It Arrested Taiwan-Based Book Publisher on National Security Charge; Australia – Protester who defaced Frederick McCubbin painting fights counter-terrorism charge; Here Come the Militarized Robots (But There Go Our Civil Liberties); Homeland Security’s domestic surveillance program needs thorough overhaul; EU: European Union must protect human rights in upcoming AI Act vote; Security and the Politics of Exclusion; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 15 avril 2023: Hassan Diab’s kafkaesque nightmare continues: Trial in absentia underway in France; ICLMG’s submission to United Nations for Canada’s Universal Periodic Review; Urgent repatriation of Canadians detained in northeast Syria only rights-compliant response: legal community to PM Trudeau; ‘Unnecessary’ Muslims: Ottawa appeals to prolong torture of Canadians detained in Syria; Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson report on systemic bias at Canada Revenue Agency demonstrates need for moratorium, accountability and transparency; The Muslim Association of Canada is Challenging the CRA’s Audit Practices Tainted by Systemic Bias and Islamophobia; Podcast: Federal government’s proposed AI and Data Act deeply flawed; CBC Listen: Taking a closer look at Canada’s spy agency, CSIS, with ICLMG; Chantal Hébert: Think intelligence agencies always get it right? Here’s why you should be skeptical; Carters law firm analysis of the humanitarian aid authorization proposed in Bill C-41; Canada: Expanding Safe Third Country Agreement a shameful response to Roxham Road crossings; RCMP raid of Wet’suwet’en territory a ‘flagrant attack’ on Indigenous rights; ‘Canada can no longer stand on the sidelines’: Politicians, Jewish, Muslim groups condemn attack at Al-Aqsa mosque; Rideau Institute: Afghanistan and war crimes – Australia acts where Canada has not; Almost half of human rights defenders killed last year were in Colombia; “Terrorism from the Sky”: Burmese Junta Bombs Civilians, Killing 100, Escalating Attack on Resistance; Child detainees subjected to flogging, electric shocks and sexual violence in brutal protest crackdown in Iran; The Case Against National Security Law; UN human rights council details mistreatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees, calls for closure; After spying on Standing Rock, TigerSwan shopped anti-protest “counterinsurgency” to other oil companies; Tasked with stopping terror, Colorado’s intel agency monitors students protesting gun violence; Biden Should Reverse Trump’s Designation of Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”; James Risen: The Anti-War Vote That Came 20 Years Late; Podcast: U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts Destabilizing African Nations; No to spyware: Biden administration bars U.S. federal government from using rights-abusing tech; Colombia: Misuse of counter-terrorism measures to prosecute protesters threatens human rights, say UN experts; Sri Lanka: Reject New Counterterrorism Bill; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 25 mars 2023: ICLMG: National security review of Canada Revenue Agency welcome, but should not delay immediate action; ICLMG testifies on Islamophobia in Canada at Senate committee; Party leaders urged to vote against the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act; 13 civil society groups – including the ICLMG – share core guiding principles for Canada’s upcoming online safety proposal; Hassan Diab Support Event; Amnesty International calls on France to halt its case against Ottawa’s Hassan Diab; Ramadan Repatriation Chain Fast to Free the Canadian Captives March 23 to April 20, 2023; Pulling Back the Curtain on Canada’s Mass Surveillance Programs – Part Two: The CSE Secret Spying Archive; Complaints commission opens investigation into RCMP’s ‘Indian fighters’; Document reveals Canada’s undisclosed motives for arming Saudi Arabia; Blood and Treasure: Documenting the Costs of Iraq War from Civilian Casualties to Trillions Spent; Iraq War anniversary: Repeal military force authorization, limit presidential war powers; DeSantis Says He Advised on Guantánamo Torture in Unearthed Video; Alarming misuse of high-risk technologies in global fight against terrorism says UN expert; 69 Organizations Urge that Domestic Terrorism Charges Against Defend the Atlanta Forest Protesters Be Dropped; The government of Sri Lanka’s crackdown on protesters must end; Pakistan: Drop Overbroad Terrorism Charges; International solidarity with the HDP against closure case; Amendment grants Myanmar junta sweeping new powers under Anti-Terrorism Law; Germany follows US lead in misuse of airline reservation data; Supreme Court agrees to hear case about Quebec’s ‘secret trial’; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 11 mars 2023: ICLMG response to Criminal Code amendments on counterterrorism and international assistance; Government agency for monitoring social media could be legacy of Emergencies Act report; Le SCRS ne considère pas assez les effets des mesures de réduction de menace; Demonizing Detainees: A Case Study in Canadian Media Islamophobia; How the Hassan Diab affair undressed Canada’s extradition law; Congédiée pour la « sécurité nationale » à cause de son oncle; Harper blocked U.S. move to repatriate Omar Khadr, book says; Canadian Jews call for action following Israeli pogrom and comment from senior minister that Israel should “wipe out” Palestinian town; Black activist who became PM of Dominica was target of RCMP dirty tricks: documents; Montreal to pay $6M, apologize publicly to protesters arrested illegally; Atlanta Cop City Protesters Charged With Domestic Terror for Having Mud on Their Shoes; Ralph Nader: The 20th Anniversary of the Sociocide of Iraq by Bush/Cheney; Rehabilitation for Torture at Guantanamo is a Moral and Legal Imperative; Turkey has killed, injured 21 Syrians since February 6 earthquake; Starting Bell Rings for U.N. Counterterrorism Negotiations with Big Questions Unanswered; New technologies having devastating impact on rights in counter-terrorism policy, says UN Special Rapporteur; ACLU Obtains Docs Detailing FBI, Pentagon Development of Facial Recognition Tech; German Constitutional Court strikes down predictive algorithms for policing; Exclusive Excerpt: Inside The Hidden World Of Incarcerated Indians Accused Of Terrorism; Colombian State Responsible for ‘Extermination’ of UP Political Party; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 25 février 2023: ICLMG: Feds must immediately suspend CSIS threat reduction powers following latest watchdog report; Baljit Nagra & Paula Maurutto: CSIS targeting of Canadian Muslims reveals the importance of addressing institutional Islamophobia; UN Special Rapporteur Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Anne Charbord: Repatriating Alleged ISIS-Linked Men from Northeast Syria: The Start of Judicial Responses to the Political Stalemate; Emergencies Act inquiry report should tackle the racist origins of national security; Webinar: Out of sight: Ending Canada’s armed drone purchase; Currie, Harrington and Neve: Overhaul Canada’s unjust approach to extradition; An Afghan military interpreter made it to Canada — but his siblings were forced back to Afghanistan; Adnan Khan: The Toronto 18 case still skews our views on ‘radicalization’ and terrorism; The Narwhal Is Suing the RCMP; Outrage Soars in Occupied West Bank After Israel Kills 11, Injures 500 Palestinians in Nablus Raid; Turkey Doesn’t Need F-16s. It Needs Humanitarian Aid; En Iran, un ressortissant irano-allemand condamné à mort pour «terrorisme»; China laid more than 1,400 national security charges since 2018, top prosecutor’s office reveals in a first; Tunisia: President Saied must immediately stop his political ‘witch hunt’; 2 Pakistanis leave Guantanamo after 20 years without charges; An Opportunity to Stop Warrantless Spying on Americans; USA: Supreme Court decision will have global impact on free speech online; UK – Press greets Home Office redraft of national security bill with scepticism; UK counter-terrorism report author accused of basing conclusions on ‘handful of cases’; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 11 février 2023: Ottawa appealing ruling that officials must help repatriate 4 men in Syrian camps; New Book: Reasonable Cause to Suspect: A Mother’s Ordeal to Free Her Son from a Kurdish Prison, by Sally Lane; ICLMG testifies on extradition reform at the Justice Commitee; Abdul Nakua: The ripple effects of invoking draconian laws must not be ignore; Azeezah Kanji – Canada 2030: Drone Colony?; Baljit Nagra & Paula Maurutto: Anti-Muslim Surveillance: Canadian Muslims’ Experiences with CSIS; Canadian Parliament Votes to Bring Uyghurs to Canada; Basman and Sadinsky: Refugees still endangered by Canada-U.S. border accord; State files confirm targeted RCMP violence in the aftermath of 1969 Sir George protest; Imperial Dominance Disguised as Democratic Deterrence; What Is The Pentagon’s Updated Policy On Killer Robots?; UN counterterrorism expert to finally visit the Guantanamo detention facility for the first time; Local cops harassed and threatened U.S. veteran because of terror watchlist, lawsuit says; COINTELPRO 2.0: How the FBI Infiltrated BLM Protests After Police Murder of George Floyd; UK: Shawcross review of Prevent is ‘deeply prejudiced and has no legitimacy’; “An Intolerable Situation”: Rashid Khalidi & Orly Noy on Israeli Colonialism & Escalating Violence; 3 million signatures for the removal of PKK from terror list submitted to the European Commission; Peru calls on citizens to report ‘acts of terrorism’ on social media; Hong Kong: landmark national security trial of 47 democracy advocates begins; Ban all AI systems posing an unacceptable risk to fundamental rights & plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 28 janvier 2023: ICLMG remembers Quebec city mosque victims and renews commitment to fight Islamophobia; Letter to Minister Joly: It is time to immediately bring all Canadians detained in northeast Syria home; Matthew Behrens: How False Labeling Threatens the Lives of Canadian Muslims Illegally Detained in Syria; MPs implored federal government to bring former Afghan politician to Canada before she was killed; End of the Road for Justice in Canada: Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Appeal by Family of Murdered Mexican Environment Defender; Ken Rubin: Canadians’ privacy could take a serious hit this coming legislative session; As deadly protests continue, Peru’s government faces crisis; Israel army kills 10 Palestinians, including elderly woman; Georgia police kill a protester and are invoking a 2017 terrorism law against 19 activists accused of little more than trespassing; Ending Fusion Center Abuses; A bored hacktivist browsing an unsecured airline server stumbled upon national security secrets including the FBI’s ‘no-fly’ list; Robots in the Age of Digital Surveillance, Digital Surveillance in the Age of Robots; Meta Sues Surveillance Firm That Worked with Police; A review of The Secret History of the Five Eyes; In Guantanamo cases, is the government trying to profit from torture?; Free Julian Assange: Noam Chomsky, Dan Ellsberg & Jeremy Corbyn Lead Call at Belmarsh Tribunal; Rights groups ask Sri Lanka to free student arrested for protests; Erdoğan does not permit workers to strike on grounds of ‘national security’ & plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 14 janvier 2023: What we’ve been up to from July to Dec 2022 + Our plans for 2023; Canadian special forces involved in U.S. military team accused of killing scores of innocent people in Iraq, Syria; Press release: Troubling revelation of possible government targeting of Muslim Association of Canada requires independent investigation; Alex Neve & Leilani Farha: If the CRA is targeting Muslim-led charities, Canadians deserve to know; ‘No reason’ Canadians detained in Syria should still be there, lawyer tells court; Canada is still preventing charities from bringing aid to Afghanistan; Shree Paradkar: A four-year study has mapped out ‘The Canadian Islamophobia Industry’; Canadian officials ignored their obligation to support activist detained in 2017 over mining dispute in Peru: report; Pulling Back the Curtain on Canada’s Mass Surveillance Programs – Part One: A Decade of Secret Spy Hearings; RCMP has spent nearly $50M on policing pipeline, logging standoffs in B.C.; Mendicino willing to talk about changing CSIS’s legal authority after Emergencies Act hearings; Le gouvernement Trudeau achète les premiers F-35. A-t-on vraiment besoin de ces avions coûteux?; How To Fix Canada’s Proposed Artificial Intelligence Act; More than 150 international organizations call on Biden to close Guantanamo on 21st anniversary; Turkey exploits Paris attack on Kurds while claiming to be ‘anti-terror’ – analysis; Turkish Medical Association chief convicted on ‘terror’ charge; Nigerian Army killed children in its anti-terror war: Witnesses; Night Raids: Victims of CIA-Backed Afghan Death Squads Known as “Zero Units” Demand Accountability + New actions and events! & plus.
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News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 10 décembre 2022: 20 years of fighting deportation to torture: Justice for Mohamed Harkat Now!; Tim McSorley: Canada’s persecution of Muslim charities must stop; Hassan Diab supporters urge government to deny extradition; Letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Joly: Canada must immediately repatriate Canadians detained in Northeastern Syria; Watch: At the federal court to repatriate 40+ Canadian Muslim men, women and children illegally detained in Northeast Syria; ICLMG comments on yet another call for more powers for spy agency; Ministers decline request to testify on why Canada won’t allow Afghan aid work as desperation grows; Christopher Parsons: Don’t give more powers to CSE until it submits to effective review; Broad application of cabinet confidence risks compromising NSICOP, says chair; How the Canada Border Services Agency tolerates and even encourages refugee mistreatment; The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 148: Christelle Tessono on Bringing a Human Rights Lens to AI Regulation in Bill C-27; ‘I did not want to be involved’: Police officer quits task force over concerns about RCMP tactics at Fairy Creek; UN Budget vs. Rhetoric: Touting “Agenda for Peace” But Investing in Counterterrorism Instead?; Beyond the Pale: The Turkish and Iranian War in Kurdistan; Podcast: Gov. Ron DeSantis oversaw torture in Guantanamo as a military lawyer; Podcast: Can A Lawsuit Against The CIA Affect U.S. Extradition Attempt of Julian Assange?; Former NLD lawmaker sentenced to 26 years on anti-terrorism and treason charges; Philippines: Global solidarity with Filipino human rights defenders & plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 26 novembre 2022: Press conference: Justice for Hassan Diab; MPs to review Canada’s extradition system in coming justice committee hearings; Watch: Advocates Call for Repatriation of Canadians Detained in Syria, feat. ICLMG; Independent agency probing CSIS after claim that operative smuggled teenage girls into Syria; The Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson’s tells Senate he cannot access critical information in investigation of prejudiced CRA audits; CJPME welcomes government’s decision to not conflate criticism of Israel’s human rights abuses with “Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism”; Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems has launched a new micro-‘suicide-drone’; Opinion: The CSIS Act threshold on ‘threat to the security of Canada’ in the Emergency Act must be met; Monia Mazigh: Racial bias and profiling in security intelligence: what we’re learning from the Rouleau Commission; Minding Your Business: A Critical Analysis of the Collection of De-identified Mobility Data and Its Use Under the Socially Beneficial and Legitimate Interest Exemptions in Canadian Privacy Law; Background Information: Turkish War Against Rojava; UN Counterterrorism and Technology: What Role for Human Rights in Security?; 20 Years Later, It’s Time to Overhaul the Department of Homeland Security; Senate Committee Finds FBI Response to White Supremacist Violence Woefully Inadequate; Somali Prisoner At Guantánamo, Approved For Release A Year Ago, Calls On US Court To Act – OpEd; New UK national security law could offer ministers immunity from enabling torture abroad; Algeria lambasted for abusive prosecution of 260 people for alleged terrorism; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 11 novembre 2022: Watch: 20 years of fighting for rights in the War on Terror; It’s time to bring detained Canadians home from NE Syria; Doctors Without Borders: Danger and desperation in Syria camp; Women repatriated from ISIS camps should be offered rehabilitation, not punishment: professor; The U.S. did it. The EU might. Why Canada won’t put Iran’s revolutionary guard on its terrorist list; AI Oversight, Accountability and Protecting Human Rights; Christopher Parsons on NSICOP’s Special Report on the National Security and Intelligence Activities of Global Affairs Canada; Ken Rubin: Access to information in Canada is broken beyond repair; New Report Sheds Light on Pentagon’s Secret Wars Playbook; Ending Perpetual War; Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump; Turkey’s Erdoğan Deploys Sweden and Finland’s NATO Membership Bids to Further His Repression; If NATO Opposes Aggression, Why Does it Support Turkish Crimes Against the Kurds?; USA: Biden administration must not detain Haitian asylum seekers at Guantánamo; Biden administration not taking ‘concrete steps’ to close Guantanamo, defence lawyers say; Andrew Mitrovica: American horror: POTUS after POTUS wronged this old Pakistani man; Dept. of Homeland Security Ramps Up Efforts to Police Online Speech on Ukraine, COVID & Afghanistan; Journalism is at risk from the National Security Bill. We’re fighting back; New Europol rules massively expand police powers and reduce rights protections; Europe at a Crossroads over Planned Use of Biometrics; EU calls for spyware moratorium, but no ban to protect human rights; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 29 octobre 2022: Following repatriation of four Canadians from Northeastern Syria, the Canadian government must act quickly to bring all detainees home; Urgent need for ban on use of facial recognition technology by police, featuring ICLMG; Egypt’s Misuse of Counter-terrorism Measures Casts Shadow over COP27; CSIS weighed whether rail blockades supporting Wet’suwet’en could be classed as terrorism; Was the ‘Freedom Convoy’ a national security threat? Conflicting OPP testimonies at the Public Order Emergency Commission; Canadian Bar Association: Facilitate humanitarian aid in Afghanistan; Matthew Behrens: After Devastating Rejection, High-Profile Afghan Women’s Rights Activist Submits New Canadian Application; Privacy expert Christopher Parsons: Analysis and highlights of the 2021 National Security and Intelligence Review Agency’s Annual Report; Cybersecurity Will Not Thrive in Darkness: A Critical Analysis of Proposed Amendments in Bill C-26 to the Telecommunications Act; Biden’s New Counterterrorism Policy Guidance Further Entrenches the Forever War; The Biden Drone Playbook: The Elusive Promise of Restrained Counterterrorism; What Can a Secretive Funding Authority Tell Us About the Pentagon’s Use of Force Interpretations?; Turkish doctor detained for proposing chemical weapons probe; Israel’s Detention of Palestinian Minors: a Horror Show; India’s Abuses at Home Raise Concerns About Its Global Counterterrorism Role; Data retention: France illegally extends blanket mass surveillance of the entire population; The Parts Of Chelsea Manning’s Book Censored By The US Government; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 15 octobre 2022: New parliamentary report demonstrates urgent need to rein in facial recognition, artificial intelligence to protect the rights of people in Canada; CSIS violated its own rules in smuggling of British teens; Canada’s talks with Taliban undercut ban on aid work in Afghanistan, lawyers argue; Insiders reveal why Canada won’t brand this Iran military group as terrorists; Spy agency oversight committee calls on government to respond to five years’ worth of recommendations; Australia to launch rescue mission for women and children trapped in Syrian detention camps; Jasmine Zine: The Canadian Islamophobia Industry: Mapping Islamophobia’s Ecosystem in the Great White North; Report: Unveiling the Chilly Climate – The Suppression of Speech on Palestine in Canada; Leading human rights groups challenge Safe Third Country Agreement at Supreme Court of Canada; Podcast episode on National Security Law with Yavar Hameed; Erica Ifill: Racism rears its ugly head in police’s untested tech; Marwan Bishara: The flaws and fantasies of the new Biden doctrine; Spy agency ASIO ‘acquiesced in the use of torture’ when detaining Egyptian refugee, court told; Urgent action needed to protect civic space against misuse of counter-terrorism, ODIHR event underlines; UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Alarm by sentencing under national security law; U.S. Supreme Court to rule on protections for social media firms hosting terror content; Jan. 6 suspects in a D.C. jail think Guantanamo would be better. I’ve got news for them; Surveillance tech is weaponry; Inside the Chinese government’s growing surveillance state; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 1er octobre 2022: Press release: Civil Society groups highlight concerns with ‘deeply problematic’ Cybersecurity Bill C-26 ahead of Commons debate; Beyond Surveillance Data videos: Lopsided Surveillance featuring ICLMG’s Tim McSorley; ICLMG: Key bills and legislative proposal we’ll be taking on this fall; Matthew Behrens: UN Slams Canada’s Failure to Repatriate Citizens Illegally Detained in Syria; Detainees Face Life-Threatening Conditions; CSIS’s role in the Syrian trafficking operation must come to light; ‘Time is past urgent’: legislation needed to help Canadian aid groups work in Afghanistan, says Sen. Omidvar; Ottawa advocates plead for intervention after Afghan rights worker’s application to come to Canada is rejected; RCMP Refuses to Respond to Gidimt’en Lawsuit, Continue Surveillance and Harassment of Land Defenders as Coastal GasLink Poised to Drill Headwaters; Did Canada use facial-recognition software to strip two refugees of their status? A court wants better answers; Canadian Law Professors Are Speaking Out in Support of Palestinian Human Rights Defenders; With mounting evidence of Israeli responsibility, Canada must support an ICC investigation into the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh; Iran sanctions, terrorism listing unlikely to pressure regime, experts say; Pressure Cooker; 2 AANES Officials Killed In Turkish Drone Strike In Syria’s Qamishli; Guantanamo: Biden appoints senior diplomat to oversee detainee transfers, report says; Drone debt: U.S. refuses to help wounded survivor of wrongful attack in Yemen; The Global War on Terror doubles as a war on peace building; UK: Creeping Authoritarianism – The next threat to our civil liberties; Narendra Modi’s BJP bans Indian Islamic group for ‘terrorist’ links; Geneva Declaration: international community unites to end spyware abuse; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 17 septembre 2022: Watch: Militarizing the Sky: Opposing Canada’s Armed Drone Purchase; ICLMG: Twenty-one years later, the brutal legacy of the War on Terror lives on; Government proposal to fight “online harms” presents dangers of its own; Monia Mazigh: From Omar Khadr to Shamima Begum: CSIS’s trail of mistakes; UN Accuses Canadian Government of Breach of International Law in the Case of Jack Letts; Will Trudeau’s Liberal government open the door to at-risk Uyghurs?; Taha Ghayyur: Canada’s foreign policy is at odds with Trudeau’s promise to fight Islamophobia; Ryan Alford: Hiding behind national security will erode trust in Emergencies Act inquiries; Military probe of reported torture videos still silent after more than a year; Spy service analyst appeals judge’s decision to throw out his discrimination case; Carleton PhD student returns to Canada after imprisonment in Turkey; Customs officials have copied Americans’ phone data at massive scale; Maha Hilal: 9/11 anniversary: When ‘never forget’ is used to justify the ‘forever war’; The War on Terror’s Detention and Torture Practices Have Not Gone Away; President Biden, release my father from Guantanamo says Ismail, son of Muhammad Rahim; Former Turkish Shelling Claims Life Of Female Student – Syria’s AANES; Turkish State Violence and Kurdish Self-Determination: The PKK and the Conundrum of Innocence; Inside Fog Data Science, the Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Local Police; European police facial recognition system must be halted, warns new paper; How Israel’s ‘anti-terror’ law is crushing Palestinian civil society; Lawmakers seek answers on Pentagon’s role in deadly airstrike et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 3 septembre 2022: ICLMG: We need answers and accountability from Prime Minister Trudeau and CSIS on Canada’s role in the Shamima Begum affair; Over 200 Organizations – including ICLMG – Demand International Community Stand Against Raids and Closures of 7 Palestinian Organizations; CIA unable to corroborate Israel’s ‘terror’ label for Palestinian rights groups; UN urges Israel to allow humanitarians to continue working in Palestine; Israel’s ‘Operation Breaking Dawn’ killed 49 Palestinians. These are their stories; Canada is complicit in the starvation of Afghanistan; Major banks have been cutting ties with some Muslim organizations. This is why the process should be more transparent; Monia Mazigh: Canada’s Muslim charities deserve fairness from tax officials; Upcoming book: Reasonable Cause to Suspect: A Mother’s Ordeal to Free Her Son from a Kurdish Prison; Couple entrapped by the RCMP in 2013 sues police; Migrante Canada’s Statement on Danilo De Leon’s Deferred Removal Order; War on Yemen: Stop Canadian arms sales to Saudi Arabia; La reconnaissance faciale : Un outil de surveillance de masse; Turkish Attack Claims Lives Of 4 Children At UN Center In NE Syria; Potential ‘crimes against humanity’ in China’s Xinjiang, UN says; Saudi woman jailed for 45 years over social media use, says group; Correcting the record on Bill Graham and the Iraq War; Retaliation isn’t justice: Biden’s assassination of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was illegal. Canada should not have condoned it; We’re Suing DHS to Uncover Its Use of Social Media Surveillance Tools; Sri Lanka: Protesters must not be detained under the draconian anti-terror law; Tariq Ali: Terrorism Charges Against Pakistan’s Former PM Imran Khan Are “Truly Grotesque”; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 20 août 2022: Against Islamophobia: Islam, Beauty, and Justice – A Conversation with Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Khaled Abou El Fadl; Aid to Afghanistan can’t wait: Demand Prime Minister Trudeau act to remove barriers to vital humanitarian assistance; Yves Engler: Canada’s terrorist list actually enables terrorism; Jewish group calls on Canadian government to condemn Israeli raids on Palestinian civil society; Zachary Al-Khatib’s comments on the constitutionality of Canada’s No Fly List; Iranian-Canadians feel like ‘2nd-class citizens’ as many continue to be stopped while travelling to the U.S.; One in four border officers witnessed discrimination by colleagues: internal report; Canada’s former privacy watchdog ‘surprised’ by RCMP spyware program; Face Recognition Technology for the Protection of Canada’s Parliament Hill? Potential Risks and Considerations; SFU prof targeted by China for groundbreaking Uyghur research; Canadian Muslim News: Proposed bill to enshrine a “duty of candour” for CSIS; Gidimt’en Civil Suit; The Similarities Between Red and Yellow: A global map details danger to press freedom. What are Canada’s true colours?; Mike Pompeo & CIA Sued for Spying on Americans Who Visited Julian Assange in Ecuadorian Embassy in U.K.; Turkey attacked Northern and Eastern Syria 3,761 times in past 8 months, killing 33 and wounding 124; “There Are Good Reasons to Defund the FBI. They Have Nothing to Do with Trump”: Professor Alex Vitale; In U.S. v. Al-Nashiri the Government Is Rewarding Torture and Incentivizing Torturers; Biden’s Assassination of al-Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Was Illegal; Filipino nuns accused of ‘financing terrorism’; KWF urged to review policy banning books it decided are ‘subversive’; FOI reveals over 12,000 people profiled by flawed Durham police predictive AI tool; New UK Cabinet Office rules ban speakers who have criticised government policy; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 5 août 2022: Abdul Nakua: Tackling Islamophobia begins by rebuilding trust with the Muslim community; ICLMG in the media: Canada Ends Muslim Charity Suspension Amid Bias Review; Letter to Public Safety Minister: Don’t conflate human rights work with “violent extremism”; ‘Terrifying’: Canada’s police going all in on ‘pre-crime’ intervention; Privacy committee to study RCMP use of spyware tools; Canada said her case was urgent. Four months later, this Afghan women’s activist waits with no visa; U.S. played secret role in Nigeria attack that killed more than 160 civilians; Burkina Faso : l’armée reconnait la mort de civils lors d’un raid aérien; Turkish drone attacks in 48 hours: Nearly 15 people killed and injured in four attacks on SDF-held areas; Israeli sniper kills 16-year-old Palestinian boy in Jenin; Myanmar: First executions in decades mark atrocious escalation in state repression; The Assassination of Ayman al-Zawahiri: CIA Drone Kills al-Qaeda Leader – and 12 Civilians – at Safe House in Kabul; Nicaragua: Rights experts denounce shutdown of over 700 civil society groups; India’s plot to criminalize Islam in Kashmir (video); Israel sends veiled threat to attorneys of outlawed Palestinian NGOs; Lost in the Matrix – how police surveillance is mapping protest movements; Tool to assess jailed terrorists before release criticised as unreliable and prejudicial to Muslims; Top rights experts urge repeal of Hong Kong’s national security law; Sunak wants to extend the Prevent program to those who ‘vilify the UK’. That’s wrong – and he’s chosen the wrong target; Podcast: The cost of saying no to the FBI; Surveillance is pervasive: Yes, you are being watched, even if no one is looking for you; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 22 juillet 2022: Federal suspension lifted, but Muslim charity presses ahead with case in top court; 2-year Uighur Resettlement Plan Must Include Releasing Prisoners of Conscience; Dominique Peschard: Forces policières et capitalisme de surveillance; Homeland Security records show ‘shocking’ use of phone data, ACLU says; ‘Follow colonial laws or go to jail’: Wet’suwet’en people criminalized for standing firm on their own territory; Detained Australian Teenager Dies in Northeast Syria; Turkish Shelling In the Kurdistan Region of Iraq Kills 9, Injures 23; When Protesting ISIS is a Terror Offense: The Kobani Trial; As Biden shrinks Guantanamo’s population, GOP balks at closure; New Defense Bill Bars Pentagon from Assisting Afghanistan in Any Way; America’s $1.4 Trillion So-Called “National Security” Budget Makes Us Less Safe—Not More; Has the Secret Service become a national security threat?; Philippines: UN expert slams court decision upholding criminal conviction of Maria Ressa and shutdown of media outlets; UN Special Rapporteurs Urge Israel to Free Ahmad Manasra – Press Release; and more.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 9 juillet 2022: What we’ve been up to from January to June 2022; Watch: International Voices Join MPs in Call for Repatriation of Canadians from Northeast Syria; Tim McSorley comments on the news “London, Ont., family stuck in London, England after airlines refuse to let them board”; CSILC: Les dangers de la lutte contre les méfaits en ligne – Proposition du gouvernement du Canada; Anti-Taliban law could be tweaked to get more humanitarian aid to Afghans: minister; ‘Asleep at the wheel’: Canada police’s spyware admission raises alarm; Gidimt’en Checkpoint response to NDP Attorney General issuing criminal charges to four additional land defenders; RCMP spied on activists in early days of universal medicare planning in Sask., documents show; Liberals to release cabinet documents to Emergencies Act inquiry; US repatriates Guantanamo prisoner back to Afghanistan after court ruled he was detained unlawfully; Maha Hilal: Torture is an American value. US leaders from Bush to Biden are in denial; Azeezah Kanji: Extraditing Assange Would Be a “Legalized” Rendition to US Torture; Turkey subjected Northeast Syria to 47 drone attacks so far in 2022, wounding 55, killing 16; UK’s anti-terrorism strategy has ‘negative effect’ on Muslim communities, says UN official; Searching for humane alternatives to the ‘whole society’ approach to security; The Forgotten Crime of War Itself + ACTION: Stop Mohamed Harkat’s deportation to torture; et plus!
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 18 juin 2022: ICLMG: Senate amendments to electronic device search bill will strengthen privacy, help protect against profiling at the border; Panel: The Supreme Court’s Bissonnette Decision: Anti-Racist and Abolitionist Perspectives; ICLMG mourns the horrific murder of members of the Afzaal family and calls for concrete action against Islamophobia; Azeezah Kanji: Thoughts on the current dynamics, contradictions, and limitations of state “anti-Islamophobia”; Behind the Thin Blue Line: Meet a secretive arm of the RCMP in B.C.; Liberal backbencher pushing bill to make CSIS more forthcoming in its warrant applications; Ottawa’s anti-terrorism laws hinder efforts to evacuate Afghans loyal to Canada out of Afghanistan; Coalition calls on Canada to stop funding Philippine counter-terrorism campaign; UN inquiry finds Israel responsible for “root causes” of last year’s violence in Palestine; National security agencies’ relationship with racialized communities marred by a ‘trust gap:’ report; Gar Pardy: Expert report on national security lacks urgency, offers conflicting yet vague advice; Federal Court says it lacks jurisdiction to hear CSIS employee’s discrimination claim; ACLU files lawsuit for more information on DHS’s new domestic violent extremism initiatives; Secret photos of first Guantanamo Bay detainees revealed; Right-Wing Judges Say It’s “Harmless” to Label Climate Activist a Terrorist; Punished for Exposing War Crimes? U.K. Approves Assange Extradition to U.S., Faces 175 Years in Prison; Amnesty International: Myanmar’s plans to carry out arbitrary executions must halt immediately; World Organization Against Torture: Turkey weaponizes anti-terror laws to silence human rights defenders’ + NEW ACTION: LeadNow petition: Protect Hassan Diab from further injustice. Say NO to any future request for Hassan’s extradition! et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 3 juin 2022: Video: ICLMG testifies at Senate Committee on Bill S-7: Proposed rules for searching cell phones at Canada’s border threatens rights; The ‘terrorist’ smear: a settler-colonial ploy; Dr. Monia Mazigh Calls on Trudeau: Free Jack Letts, Free ALL the 44 Canadians Detained in Northern Syria; BC Prosecution Service will apply criminal contempt charges against 15 people arrested last fall under the Coastal GasLink pipeline injunction; National security committee violates MPs’ parliamentary privilege: Ontario court; Ottawa is trying a third time to set up a watchdog for powerful border cops. This time it must not fail; Former Guantanamo detainee explains why he’s suing Canada; Christopher Parsons: Justice Mosley on a request from CSIS to retain a pair of Canadian datasets; Turkish airstrike kills at least two children in Iraqi Kurdistan; War as Terrorism: Conflicts We Can’t Win, Suffering We Don’t See; Progressives Need to Resist the Domestic “War on Terror”; Immoral Code: Amnesty International Short Film against Autonomous Killer Drones; The faces from China’s Uyghur detention camps; US Surveillance of Americans Must Stop; The Rise and Fall of America’s Environmentalist Underground; Facebook Anti-Terror Policy Lands Head of Afghan Red Crescent Society on Censorship List; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 21 mai 2022: Report “Beyond Big Data Surveillance: Freedom and Fairness” sheds light on big data surveillance in Canada; Tim McSorley’s response to news article: No, modernization of the CSIS Act is not “long overdue”; Double Standard: Canada’s terrorist list, the IDF, Palestinians and the case of Khaled Barakat; Liberals revive bill to create watchdog for Canada Border Services Agency; Ottawa’s Mom’s 5-Hour Vigil Seeks Meeting to Free Son Jack Letts and 43 other Canadian Men, Women and Kids; Algeria: Lift Arbitrary Travel Bans on Algerian-Canadian Activists; Michelle Weinroth: Unfinished Business: The Hassan Diab Affair Continues; UN committee calls for investigation of RCMP on Secwepemc and Wet’suwet’en territories; Emails reveal how the RCMP changed its story about arresting journalists in Wet’suwet’en raid; MP accuses RCMP officials of delivering ‘dodgy’ testimony on facial recognition technology; International women call on UN to stop Turkey’s attacks on Kurds; Everything you need to know about the UK’s connection to torture in Xinjiang; Documentary: Austria’s Operation Luxor: Anti-terrorism or Islamophobia?; US House passes domestic terrorism bill in mostly party-line vote; Paul Jay on 9/11; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 7 mai 2022: Webinar: “The least fair law in Canada”- Why the Extradition Act Must Be Reformed; Matthew Behrens: Islamophobia preventing Jack Letts from returning home to Canada; Former Guantanamo Bay detainee sues Canada for $35 million over 14-year imprisonment; Samidoun statement on smear campaigns targeting Palestinian liberation and anti-Palestinian racism in Canada; UN experts call on governments to resume funding for six Palestinian CSOs designated by Israel as ‘terrorist organisations’; In ‘grey zone’ of national security, suspects face no charges but can’t leave Canada; Webinar: Under Siege: Islamophobia and the 9/11 Generation; Rizwaan Sabir: No, Muslims critical of Prevent are not ‘enabling terrorism’; Justice minister invokes cabinet secrecy around use of Emergencies Act; Wet’suwet’en report round-the-clock surveillance and harassment by RCMP and pipeline security; Climate activist’s fight against ‘terrorism’ sentence could impact the future of protests; ‘All of These Guys Belong in Prison’: CIA Torture Described in Vivid Detail by Psychologist; Turkey is Committing War Crimes in Iraq; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 22 avril 2022: ICLMG video: Canada must reform its extradition laws now!; Civil Society Calling for Robust Inquiry Into Use of Emergencies Act; Muslim charity seeks court shutdown of federal audit, alleging systemic Islamophobia; Inadmissible: How a U.S. policy is wreaking havoc on the lives of Iranian-Canadians; OPC not consulted, privacy experts concerned on cell phone border search bill; Family living in London, Ont., for 5 years fears being deported to Egypt will tear them apart; Ottawa tracked Mohawk-Wet’suwet’en links, feared repeat of 2020 blockades: memo; People being held in Syria are in conditions that ‘meet the standard of torture’, UN says; Ottawa faces blowback for plan to regulate internet; Arming Apartheid: Canada’s arms exports to Israel – New report; Stop Turkish war in Kurdistan!; U.S. didn’t expect major explosions when it bombed a Daesh bomb factory; ‘Why don’t we just kill them?’: New book details CIA rendition and torture programme; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 9 avril 2022: ICLMG Event: “The least fair law in Canada”: Why the Extradition Act must be reformed; ICLMG: In clear view: Confronting Canadian police use of facial recognition technology; ICLMG: Canadian Iranians watchlisted because of mandatory military service; ICLMG: CSIS jumps on latest crisis to ask for more powers, yet again; Civil society first reactions to the new Senate bill on searches of devices at the border; Canada Should Mark Ramadan by Helping Bring Home Unlawfully Detained Muslims; CBSA Discriminates against Egyptian Refugees; Brent Patterson: How many people will Canada’s new F-35 fighter jet kill?; U.S. airstrike killed 11 Libyan civilians and allies, human rights groups say; Back from Kabul, Women’s Delegation Urges U.S. & Europe to Unfreeze Afghan Funds Amid Humanitarian Crisis; Annihilation over compromise for Myanmar’s generals; Azeezah Kanji: Save us from ‘securo-feminism’; Special Report: French mosque closures based on ‘secretive evidence,’ critics say; Guantanamo Prisoner Finally Returned to Algeria After Being Cleared for Transfer in 2016; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 26 mars 2022: ICLMG appears at ETHI committee for study of the use of facial recognition tech by law enforcement; Islam & Life show: Episode 7 featuring ICLMG; Azeezah Kanji: Freeing Canada from colonial freedom; Canada’s spy agencies have held back information from Parliament’s watchdogs; Matthew Behrens: Afghanistan’s Women’s Rights Defenders Abandoned by Canada; Canada must bring back Jack Letts and other Canadians detained in North East Syria; UN rights chief decries mass execution of 81 people in Saudi Arabia; British spies who helped CIA torturers subject to English law, court rules; CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach interrogators torture techniques; EU: Free speech under attack: French Presidency proposes action against “radical rhetoric”; ACLU sues DHS, says Muslim Americans questioned about faith at border; Remembering the victims of the Islamophobic Christchurch massacre; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 11 mars 2022: ICLMG: RCMP violates national security disclosure rules, potentially placing thousands at risk; Out of sight, but not out of mind: Laying bare the RCMP’s efforts to evade public transparency; Steven Zhou: Don’t use post-9/11 vocab in future online regulations; Ken Rubin: Federal, city inquiries into occupations and blockades too limited; Endless Exile: The Tangled Politics Keeping a Uyghur Man in Limbo; SOARING: The Harms and Risks of Fighter Jets and Why Canada Must Not Buy a New Fleet; What I Told Congress about U.S. Lethal Strikes; Family members of 9/11 victims call on Biden to unfreeze Afghan funds; C.I.A. Black Sites Are State Secrets, the Supreme Court Rules; Supreme Court Sides With F.B.I. in Case on Spying on Muslims; A People-Led Review of the United Kingdom’s Prevent Captures Its Abuse of Children; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 26 février 2022: ICLMG statement on use of Emergencies Act; Canada’s secretive policy on ISIS detainees closes door to repatriation; Canada: Let Gravely Ill Canadians Leave Northeast Syria; Friends and families of Canadians detained in Syria gather to call for their immediate repatriation; RCMP inappropriately shares personal information on thousands of individuals with other federal agencies; Ottawa launches long-awaited competition for armed military drones; Biden’s decision on frozen Afghanistan money is tantamount to mass murder; Why Half of Guantanamo’s Prisoners Could Get Out; Israel revives assassination tactics not seen for 15 years in the West Bank; Connecting the Dots: The Surge in Reprisals Against Women and the Rise of Counterterrorism; The Belmarsh Tribunal Is Demanding Justice for Victims of the War on Terror; Looks Are Deceiving: The Rebranding and Perpetuation of Counterterrorism Watchlisting in Multilateral Spaces; et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 12 février 2022: ICLMG press release: Government must take bold action if it is serious about resolving systemic Islamophobia in CRA counter-terrorism audits; ICLMG’s Tim McSorley on the Public Safety Minister’s comments about the convoy; Remember Huseyin Celil and other Canadians in Chinese prison as Olympics start, activists urge; Livermore, Pardy & Welsh: Ottawa shirking duty to help Canadians stuck abroad; Air travellers using special code to avoid Canadian no-fly list snags; No Fly List Kids co-founder: the list should still be abolished; New report “In Their Words: Untold Stories of Islamophobia in Canada” reveals impact of everyday Islamophobia on Muslims; The Hassan Diab Support Committee Presentation; Biden Team Gets It Right on Inadmissibility of Torture Evidence in Al-Nashiri Case; White House discusses reinstating Trump’s terror designation for Yemen’s Houthis; Killing of ISIS Leader Shows That U.S. Forever Wars Will Never End; We Don’t Need a Department of Homeland Security; What if the U.S. hadn’t gone to war after 9/11? et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 29 janvier 2022: Press conference with ICLMG and the Hassan Diab Support Committee on France setting a date for Hassan Diab’ trial; The ICLMG remembers January 29, 2017; Où en est le Québec dans sa lutte contre l’islamophobie? (vidéo); Canada secretly amends Safe Third Country Agreement with US to nail door shut to refugees; Nearly 850 children at immediate risk as violence continues in northeast Syria; Opinion: Parliamentarians can be trusted with sensitive security information; CSIS survey finds majority of Canadians leery of giving more powers to police, intelligence agencies; The Uyghurs of China: Who they are, human rights abuses, implications for US policy (video); A Rare Public Wake-Up Call from the ICRC on Guantanamo Transfers; Ban Weaponized Drones from the World; Calling Civilian Casualties a ‘Failure,’ Democrats Urge Biden to Do Better; Afghanistan Faces “Tsunami of Hunger” as U.S. Sanctions Crash Country’s Economy; Biometrics and counter-terrorism: UN briefing shows global spread of technology; EU, Egypt Bid to Lead Global Counterterrorism Body an Affront to Rights et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 15 janvier 2022: Canadian police expanding surveillance powers via new digital “operations centres”; Top Mountie violated her legal obligations by being too slow to respond to complaints, judge rules; Coastal GasLink drops charges against journalists arrested on Wet’suwet’en territory; The settler colonial origins of the Five Eyes alliance; Matthew Behrens: No Room at Canada’s Inn for Afghan Refugees; Held without Charge: The Call to Repatriate Canadians Detained in Northeast Syria (video); La reconnaissance faciale : La fin de l’anonymat?; Civilian Casualty Files Reveal U.S. Hid Thousands of Deaths in Middle East Air War; ‘Anti-Democratic and Cowardly’: US Building New Secret Courtroom at Guantánamo; Innocent Until Proven Muslim book talk with Dr. Maha Hilal (video); A data ‘black hole’: Europol ordered to delete vast store of personal data; Nearly 8,000 detained in Kazakhstan amid anti-government protests + NEW ACTIONS: The Green Square Campaign; Tell President Biden: Close Guantanamo; Ban Weaponized Drones from the World et plus.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 18 décembre 2021: New ICLMG video & action: Canada must protect encryption!; Watch the recording: “20 Years of the Anti terrorism Act: The legacy of Canada’s War on Terror”; What we’ve been up to! Summary of our activities from July to December 2021; Lettre au premier ministre Trudeau sur la poursuite des exportations d’armes vers l’Arabie saoudite; Les vérifications préjudiciables de l’ARC; Paul Weinberg: Experts fear Canada will extradite Hassan Diab to France again; ‘Please get me out’: Alleged ex-ISIL follower tells Canadian official he would take Siberia, Guantanamo over Kurdish jail; Canadian spies and cybercrime; Christopher Parsons’ analysis of the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency’s Annual Report; Provinces order Clearview AI to stop using facial recognition without consent; Mugyenyi: Canada doesn’t need these costly warplanes; Israel killed up to 192 Palestinian civilians in May 2021 attacks on Gaza; “No Food Available”: Afghanistan Faces Catastrophe as Donors Cut Humanitarian Aid to Taliban Gov’t; No U.S. Troops Will Be Punished for Deadly Kabul Strike, Pentagon Chief Decides; Oregon’s anti-terrorism fusion center lacks legislative authority, collects intelligence on protesters, lawsuit says; Customs and Border Protection Unit Used Anti-Terrorism Tools on Journalists; The Biden administration was a no-show at a Senate hearing on closing Guantanamo and more.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 3 décembre 2021: Statement of Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation; Event: 20 years of the Anti-terrorist Act: The Legacy of Canada’s War on Terror; Canadian civil society groups call on Canada to protect Palestinian human rights defenders; CUPE support gives Cihan Erdal strength in his fight for freedom; Father of Canadian man held in Syrian detention camp calls for federal assistance; CSIS efforts to derail threats to 2019 election sometimes skirted law: watchdog; World Uyghur Congress urges Canada to take refugees, block Chinese imports; The War Party: From Bush to Obama, and Trump to Biden, U.S. Militarism Is the Great Unifier; The U.S.-led bombing that ended the ISIS “Caliphate” killed scores of civilians; Human Rights Groups Call on Pentagon to Reinvestigate Civilian Deaths in Yemen; Durbin Introduces Amendment to End ‘Legacy of Cruelty’ by Closing Guantánamo; US lifts Colombia’s FARC ‘foreign terrorist’ designation; He Declined the FBI’s Offer to Become an Informant. Then His Life Was Ruined & more
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 20 novembre 2021: The Liberal government must rid the country of systemic Islamophobia; Land defenders arrested on Wet’suwet’en territory; Terrorism laws target racism, but what about racism in the legal system?; An Audacious Suggestion for the new Minister of Foreign Affairs: Help Canadians; Canadian stranded in Iraq to be issued emergency passport; How the U.S. Hid an Airstrike That Killed Dozens of Civilians in Syria; An Undefined Defining Moment: Marking 20 Years of Counterterrorism Without Ever Agreeing What Terrorism Is; UN Agencies and the Association of International Development Agencies stand by civil society organisations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory; The Etymology of Terror; Edward Snowden: ‘If you weaken encryption, people will die’; Editorial Board: Biden administration must declassify CIA torture program & more
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 6 novembre 2021: How Canadian Taxpayers Helped Murder an Afghan Family; Monia Mazigh: How PM Trudeau can prove that he is serious about fighting Islamophobia; Four dozen Canadians are imprisoned in Syrian camps. Why is our government ignoring their plight?; Canadian extradition system in need of significant overhaul, legal experts says; John Clarke: Sorry, Justin Trudeau: There is no equivalence between the extreme right and the extreme left; Jeff Monaghan: When Police Responses Diverge; Families left in limbo. National security decisions left unmade. Is this Canadian system ‘designed not to work’?; G7: Still coming after encryption, plans to reinforce Interpol and global travel surveillance; Secret Israeli document offers no proof to justify terror label for Palestinian groups; “Stain on the Moral Fiber of America”: Military Jurors Decry Majid Khan’s Torture at CIA Black Sites; Sorry, Biden: There Is No “National Security” Solution to the Climate Crisis; Amnesty to close Hong Kong offices over National Security Law & more.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 23 octobre 2021: Canada’s extradition system needs major reform, legal and human rights experts say; ‘Bring our Canadians home’: Lawyer files suit on behalf of 26 Canadians stuck in Syrian camps; Impact of online harms bill includes ‘spectre of censorship,’ library group warns in submission; Revealed: Facebook’s secret blacklist of “dangerous individuals and organizations”; Justin Trudeau Tells International Conference Left-Wing ‘Extremist Groups’ Are ‘Pushing White Supremacy’; A Florida Anarchist Will Spend Years in Prison for Online Posts Prompted by Jan. 6 Riot; Bill would allow B.C. citizens’ personal data to be sent out of country; ‘Really hopeless’: Canada-bound Afghan family stuck in Ukraine after fleeing Kabul; New human-rights campaign targets Canadian practice of holding some asylum seekers in jails; No decision yet on whether Chelsea Manning can visit Canada; China: UN must act on Xinjiang atrocities after petition shows mass global outrage; ‘Historic Victory’: US Judge Rules Guantánamo Detainee’s Imprisonment Illegal; Israel labels Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist organisations; Who we hurt when we attack encryption; European Parliament calls for a ban on facial recognition; Primer on climate security: The dangers of militarising the climate crisis + New action: Canada must reform its extradition system now! & more
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 8 octobre 2021: ICLMG: Seven Civil Liberties Priorities for the Next Parliament; CSILC: Pourquoi nous devons abandonner l’antiterrorisme et la sécurité nationale; ICLMG Submission to Government’s “Online Harms” Consultation; Anti-Racist Groups Concerned Canada’s Proposed “Online Harms” Legislation Could Do More Harm Than Good; Neve, Aiken and Champ: Canada’s next justice minister must defend Hassan Diab’s rights; Extradition Law: Should we really be handing them over?; Family of Canadian Uyghur advocate held in China upset, outraged he remains detained; Debunking Myths about Canada’s $36m Israeli Drone Contract; Enough is Enough: We took the RCMP Commissioner to Court; Since 9/11, Islamophobia has been ‘a constant feature’ in Canada, experts say; U.S. Muslims recall questionable detentions that followed 9/11 attacks; Abu Zubaydah Was Tortured for Years at CIA Black Sites. Biden Is Trying to Keep the Abuse Secret; ‘Some are just psychopaths’: Chinese detective in exile reveals extent of torture against Uyghurs; The CIA Plot to Kidnap or Kill Julian Assange in London is a Story that is Being Mistakenly Ignored; ICC Prosecutor’s statement on Afghanistan jeopardises his Office’s legitimacy and future; The Most Terrifying Thing About 9/11 Was America’s Response; The War on Terror Film Festival & more news, actions and events.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 25 septembre 2021: More than 110 Canadian Jurists Demand Justice for Hassan Diab; Countering Islamophobia in Canada: After 20 Years of the “War on Terror”; Open letter: Defer consultations on the Internet until after the election; Does CRA’s Charities Directorate have an Islamophobia problem?; Monia Mazigh: 9/11 aftermath — A life destroyed by the ‘War on Terror’; Advocates call on Canada to name special envoy to secure Huseyin Celil’s release from China; “Essentially you have a police state” – Podcast; U.S. whistleblower Chelsea Manning challenging secrecy laws barring her from Canada; Up to Half of the $14 Trillion Spent by Pentagon Since 9/11 Has Gone to War Profiteers; U.S. Drone Killed 10 Afghans, Including Aid Worker & 7 Kids, After Water Jugs Were Mistaken as Bombs; Appeals Panel Overturns Army Judge’s Ruling on Torture; Hong Kong Quietly Widens National Security Law With Subtle Shift; How to Help Afghans in Afghanistan and Canada & more.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 11 septembre 2021: ICLMG: Five reasons to ditch anti-terrorism and national security; 20 ans depuis les attentats du 11 septembre 2001: Quels impacts sur l’état de droit? (vidéo avec ICLMG); Over Two Decades, U.S.’s Global War on Terror Has Taken Nearly 1 Million Lives and Cost $8 Trillion; Empire, Islamophobia and the War on Terror (video); The domestic legacy of our global ‘war on terror’; Canada’s spy service once again admonished by court over duty of candour; Mazigh: We need a public inquiry into Canada’s presence in Afghanistan; Lettre ouverte d’Échec à la guerre: Vingt années d’une guerre destructrice; U.S. Winds Down Afghanistan Occupation Like It Began, with Drone Strikes & Civilian Casualties; Peace Activist Kathy Kelly on Reparations for Afghanistan & What the U.S. Owes After Decades of War; Taliban’s Victory In Afghanistan Mustn’t Prevent Closure Of Guantánamo – OpEd; ‘Blacklisting’ terrorist groups: the post-9/11 strategy that only serves to prolong wars; How 9/11 helped China wage its own false ‘war on terror’; ‘I’m Part of Something That’s Really Evil’ (podcast); Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism; Why encryption is important: 10 facts to counter the myths and more.
News Digest – Revue de l’actualité, 27 août 2021: ICLMG & Noor Cultural Centre: Islamophobia in Canada; Taxpayers’ ombudsperson investigates CRA targeting of Muslim-led charities; Andrew Mitrovica: The Canadian prime minister must put a stop to the repeated victimisation of a Muslim Canadian citizen by French courts; Canada set to buy armed drones in 2022-23 that the military says are capable of “pinpoint strikes”; Erin O’Toole vows to increase criminal punishment for people who disrupt pipelines and railways; Tyler Shipley: Canada hasn’t reckoned with its bloody legacy in Afghanistan; The Secrets They Keep: Why Canada Fears Afghan Interpreters; Spencer Ackerman: Today’s Crisis in Kabul Is Direct Result of Decades of U.S. War & Destabilization; The FBI’s Domestic “War on Terror” Is an Authoritarian Power Grab; The Most High-Profile Al Qaeda Plot Foiled After 9/11 was an FBI Scam; Spyware scandal: UN experts call for moratorium on sale of ‘life threatening’ surveillance tech; We need more protection from government surveillance — not less; Two Hong Kong activists convicted on security law charge; France Adopts Laws to Combat Te