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News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 9 mai 2026<\/a>: Webinaire | Projet de loi C-22, Loi sur l’acc\u00e8s l\u00e9gal : une surveillance sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent, 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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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 \u201cDevastating Civilian Harm Globally\u201d; Insane Pre-Crime Strategy Unveiled for Leftist \u201cExtremists”; Palestine Action: Deproscription Theatre Cannot Justify Terrorism Laws; et plus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 25 avril 2026<\/a>: Civil Society to Parliament: Kill Bill C-22;<\/strong> LDL: De nombreuses voix s\u2019\u00e9l\u00e8vent contre le projet de loi f\u00e9d\u00e9ral liberticide C-9;<\/strong> Canada is cancelling thousands of asylum claims. It\u2019s leaving this man and many other migrants stuck in limbo here;<\/strong> Canadians oppose the Middle East war. The federal government doesn\u2019t;<\/strong> Canadian Coast Guard tests Arctic surveillance drone as air force delivery stalls;<\/strong> Council passes bubble bylaw despite potential future legal challenges;<\/strong> Assembly of First Nations head rejects RCMP ‘regret’ for secret Indigenous surveillance program;<\/strong> A Traveller Accuses Vancouver Airport Border Agents of Racial Profiling;<\/strong> Bombshell development in Iain Hunt case with national security concerns;<\/strong> US Launches Another Airstrike in Somalia as Trump Continues Ramped Up Bombing Campaign;<\/strong> The U.S. Is Still Routinely Killing Civilians in Boats;<\/strong> Death by A.I.:\u00a0New “Autonomous Warfare Center” will automate targeted killings;<\/strong> What are “Nihilistic Violent Extremists”?; et plus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 11 avril 2026<\/a>: C-22: New \u201cLawful Access\u201d 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\u2019s refusing to stop a deportation back to danger in Sri Lanka; It\u2019s 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\u2019s Secret Wars on the World Keep Expanding; Israel\u2019s War on Lebanon Is a Consequence of \u201cNo Accountability\u201d for Gaza: Human Rights Watch; Jordan Liz: Trump\u2019s Phoney War on Narcoterrorism; U.S. Pushes Allies to Chase a New Terrorism Target: The Far Left; Exclusive: FBI\u2019s New Political Pre-Crime Center; Not just ICE: Do we need DHS?; et plus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 28 mars 2026<\/a>: ICLMG\u2019s submission to the People\u2019s 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 \u201cabsence of a decision-maker\u201d; 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 \u201cBloodthirst\u201d of Iran War, Says Hegseth Is Enabling War Crimes; Afghan\u2013Pakistani 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\u2019s DOJ is Targeting Anti-ICE Protesters and Leftists; et plus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 14 mars 2026<\/a>: CMPAC presents ICLMG\u2019s Tim McSorley with its Community Partner Award; Bill C-9 Was Supposed to Fight Hate. Instead, It\u2019s Being Rushed Through Parliament and Threatens the Rights of Every Canadian; Join Hassan Diab for a Webinar and Information Evening on March 20th<\/sup>; 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\u2019 reaction to Palestine encampments; Carney government chooses Trump and arming genocide over international law as Liberals vote down \u2018No More Loopholes\u2019 Act; Carney\u2019s 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\u2019s Rise\u2014Now He\u2019s Making It His Own; Judge Blocks DeSantis\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 28 f\u00e9vrier 2026<\/a>: ICLMG: Government must take immediate action to address serious concerns with Canada\u2019s No Fly List regime following independent review; Open Letter to Federal Parliamentarians to remove \u201cHenry the VIII\u201d 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: \u2018Please Canada, try your best to help me\u2019; Canada\u2019s national amnesia on Islamophobia; Conservative MP searches for \u2018antifa\u2019 in federal government, Canadian Armed Forces; Trump\u2019s Version of \u201cDomestic Terrorism\u201d 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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 14 f\u00e9vrier 2026<\/a>: ICLMG testifies against Bill C-12 at Senate Committee; ICLMG raises concerns with the proposed regulations for the Foreign Influence Registry; ICLMG reacts to\u00a0Federal 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; \u201cTerrorist\u201d: How ICE Weaponized 9\/11\u2019s Scarlet Letter; UK Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful, in humiliating blow for ministers; UN report warns of \u201cexistential threat\u201d to civil liberties; et plus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 31 janvier 2026<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>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; \u2018No justification\u2019 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 \u2018propaganda\u2019 as CSIS officials tout agency\u2019s 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 \u201cManifestly Unlawful\u201d Killings; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 17 janvier 2026<\/a>: 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 \u2014 all under the broad banner of \u201csecurity\u201d; The \u201cCombatting Hate Act\u201d 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\u2019s terrorism designations for crime groups; Justice Dept. Drops Claim That Venezuela\u2019s \u2018Cartel de los Soles\u2019 Is an Actual Group; Iran: UN Human Rights Chief urges authorities to end violent repression and calls for accountability; What\u2019s Behind Trump\u2019s Christmas Strikes on Nigeria? Anti-Christian Genocide or Appeasing\u00a0MAGA\u00a0Base?; 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; \u201cWe never feared drones until they killed Omar”; Calling for Closure of Guant\u00e1namo after 24 Years \u2013 A Joint Statement; Australia\u2019s NSW passes tough anti-protest, gun laws after Bondi attack; et plus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 6 d\u00e9cembre 2025<\/a>: 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 \u00abterrorisme\u00bb; World BEYOND War\u2019s Canada Organizer\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 22 novembre 2025<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>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 \u2013 Punishing Solidarity; Canada dispatch: Human Rights Tribunal limits government delay tactics in national security cases; The day pipeline security followed me \u2014 and what I learned later about Canada\u2019s spy agency; Canada once spoke out against unlawful American military action. Why it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 8 novembre 2025<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>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:\u00a0Civil Society and Human Rights Groups Reject \u201cNational Sprint\u201d on AI Strategy; ACTION\u00a0Stop Silencing Survivors: Ban National Security Secrecy in Violence Against Women Cases; Open letter:\u00a0200+ 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;<\/em> Yemen: US air strike on migrant detention centre must be investigated as a war crime; Are You on Trump\u2019s List of Domestic Terrorists? There\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 25 octobre 2025<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>Rejecting Bill C-9, the ‘Combatting Hate Act’ webinar, featuring ICLMG’s Tim McSorley<\/span>;<\/strong> C-12: Controversial border bill in Canada is ‘about pleasing Trump,’ says non-profit<\/span>;<\/strong> The Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility, featuring ICLMG’s Tim McSorley<\/span>;<\/strong> Is Canada complicit in Trump\u2019s illegal war in Venezuela?<\/span>;<\/strong> \u2018Kill them\u2019: Trump says no Congress nod needed to attack \u2018narco-terrorists\u2019<\/span>;<\/strong> \u201cThe War Has Not Really Ended\u201d: Gaza Reporter on Israeli Attacks & Reuniting with Imprisoned Brother<\/span>;<\/strong> Seeking Justice for Hassan Diab: Event in Ottawa, November 14, 2025<\/span>;<\/strong> CSIS failed to disclose use of new ‘intrusive’ technology to minister and court: watchdog<\/span>;<\/strong> RCMP admits they \u201coverstepped authority\u201d at Fairy Creek, but will anything change?<\/span>;<\/strong> Sentencing of land defenders sends \u2018chilling message\u2019 about Indigenous rights in Canada<\/span>;<\/strong> The Danger in Designations: U.S. Terrorism Designation Lists in Gaza and Beyond<\/span>; <\/strong>FIDH publishes a report on the repression of the solidarity movement with Palestine<\/span>;<\/strong> First\u00a0\u201cAntifa\u201d Protesters Charged With Terrorism for Constitutionally Protected Activity<\/span>;<\/strong> Fighting For LGBTQ Rights is Terrorism Now<\/span>;<\/strong> Trump \u201cNational Police Force\u201d Built on ICE Partnerships With Local Agencies Like\u2026 Wildlife Commissions?; et plus.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 11 octobre 2025<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>Bill C-12\u2019s introduction solves none of Bill C-2\u2019s problems;<\/strong> 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;<\/strong> Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, risks criminalizing dissent and must be withdrawn;<\/strong> Two years into genocide in Gaza, civil liberties coalition condemns ongoing violence, Canada\u2019s complicity, and attacks on the right to protest;<\/strong> This family applied to leave Gaza on 1st day of Canada’s visa program. 21 months later, they’re still waiting;<\/strong> Canada\u2019s increasingly militarized border pushes migrants into taking riskier routes to claim asylum;<\/strong> Nova Scotia passes law that may allow police to remove Mi\u2019kmaw land protectors;<\/strong> Collateral Damage Podcast: Trump\u2019s War on Drugs;<\/strong> Trump Administration Conjures Up New \u201cTerrorist\u201d Designation to Justify Killing Civilians;<\/strong> Trump\u2019s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism \u201cIndicators\u201d;<\/strong> Trump\u2019s Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy;<\/strong> The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act;<\/strong> US Supreme Court lets Trump strip temporary status from 300,000 Venezuelan migrants;<\/strong> Myanmar junta says it targeted rebels in deadly attack on protest;<\/strong> Security frameworks and terror accusations weaponised to punish cooperation with UN in 62% of reprisals cases across the MENA;<\/strong> UK: ‘New’ police powers to tackle protest yet another attempt to clamp down on human rights; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 27 septembre 2025<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>Open Letter: Withdraw Bill C-2, the\u00a0“Strong Borders” Act; <\/em>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\u2019s unlawful occupation; Results of the call to withdraw from \u201ccounter-terrorism\u201d 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 \u201cWar on Terror\u201d?; \u2018Killed us twice\u2019: Families of US drone victims seek reparations in Somalia; Where Are the Detainees? Hundreds of \u201cAlligator Alcatraz\u201d 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 \u2018Terrorism\u2019 Designation for Palestine Action; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 13 septembre 2025<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>Watch the webinar: Stop Bill C-2, the dangerous\u00a0“Strong Borders” Act<\/em>; Remembering and confronting the legacy of the \u201cWar on Terror,\u201d 24 years on; Submission to the Financial Action Task Force in regard to the Fifth Mutual Evaluation of Canada; Call to withdraw from \u201ccounterterrorism\u201d summit in Israel amid genocide in Gaza; Canada is arming Israel \u2014 and Liberals can\u2019t stop lying about it; Immediate Action Needed to Fulfill Canada\u2019s Humanitarian Commitment for Gaza Family Reunification; \u201cUniting for Peace\u201d: 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\u2019s 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\u2019s border agency plans to use AI to screen everyone entering the country \u2014 and single out \u2018higher risk\u2019 people; Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians; Trump\u2019s Personal Army? Exec. Order to Create \u201cQuick Reaction Force\u201d Raises Alarm; Judge Blocks Trump\u2019s Late-Night Deportation of Hundreds of Guatemalan Children; Trump\u2019s Union Busting Tests Limits of \u2018National Security\u2019 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\u2019s facial recognition plans fall foul of European law, says watchdog; et plus.<\/p>\n

La Revue de l’actualit\u00e9 a pris une courte pause.<\/em><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 16 ao\u00fbt 2025<\/a>: Webinar: Stop Bill C-2, the dangerous\u00a0“Strong Borders” Act<\/em>;<\/strong> Featuring ICLMG: Migrant surveillance data no longer has to remain in Canada. That has civil liberties advocates worried;<\/strong> Canada Must Deploy Peacekeeping Troops into Gaza to End Mass Starvation;<\/strong> As Gazans Starve, Families in Canada Struggle to Get Loved Ones Out;<\/strong> The Canadian Company Staffing \u2018Alligator Alcatraz\u2019;<\/strong> Recognizing the Tamil Canadian experience in public life;<\/strong> Trump\u2019s Trial Run for a Police State;<\/strong> Trump\u2019s New Secret Directive OKs Military Action in Latin America Under Guise of Drug War;<\/strong> Torture at\u00a0CECOT: Venezuelan Men Freed from Salvadoran Mega-Prison Describe Brutal Beatings, Humiliation;<\/strong> Trump\u2019s Entry Bans Aren\u2019t About National Security;<\/strong> Guant\u00e1namo and Beyond: A Conversation with Human Rights Lawyer Alka Pradhan;<\/strong> One Year On, EU AI Act Collides with New Political Reality;<\/strong> Response to the National Security Strategy 2025 and its Expansion of Powers;<\/strong> Amnesty International UK:\u00a0Arrests of Palestine Action protesters ‘deeply concerning’;<\/strong> Belarus: Anti-extremism laws put digital rights at risk; et plus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 2 ao\u00fbt 2025<\/a>:<\/span><\/span> Exposing Canadian military exports to Israel; Gazan Man Killed While Waiting on Canada as Son Launches Hunger Strike; \u201cOur Genocide\u201d: Israeli Human Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Destroying Palestinian Society in Gaza; The Great Canadian Rights Grab; Les donn\u00e9es des Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois [et Canadien.nes] h\u00e9berg\u00e9es par Microsoft accessibles au gouvernement am\u00e9ricain; Canada Awards $169 Million Deal To U.S. Company Sued Over Iraqi Abuse; Mark Carney\u2019s AI agenda is a gift to Big Tech; Faiza Patel: Peering into the \u2018Double Black Box\u2019 of National Security and AI; ICE Is Secretly Tracking Millions of Americans; Bush Lawyers\u2019 Legal Arguments for Guant\u00e1namo Bay Paved the Way for CECOT; ICE Detained 6-Year-Old with Cancer for Over a Month: \u201cHe and His Sister Cried Every Night\u201d; 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\u2019s rights group demands withdrawal of terror charges against a 7-year-old boy in Balochistan; \u2018Grave error\u2019: 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 19 juillet 2025<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>\u00a0Community Forum on Bill C-2, the Strong Borders Act<\/em>; Canada must end its complicity in torture!; Amnesty International Canada: Action must follow Canada\u2019s 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 Bogot\u00e1 conference; Lawyers take EU Commission, Council to court over their \u2018failure to act on Gaza genocide\u2019; UN experts urged United Kingdom not to misuse terrorism laws against protest group Palestine Action; \u201cIdeological Deportation\u201d: 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; \u201cGator Grift\u201d: Hundreds Caged in Inhumane Conditions with No Due Process at Florida Immigrant Jail; \u2018Shoot them in the leg\u2019: Kenyan president\u2019s 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 \u201cThe disaster is here\u201d; Time for Rightsizing: Change is Coming to the UN Counterterrorism System; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 21 juin 2025<\/a>: 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\u2019s 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\u00a0: le Canada doit radicalement changer d\u2019approche; 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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 7 juin 2025<\/a>: New Border Bill Raises Major Concerns for Civil Liberties, Privacy, and Refugee Rights;<\/strong> What we\u2019ve been up to from January to May 2025 and our plan for the rest of the year;<\/strong> Groups mount legal challenge against Ottawa over refugee treaty with US;<\/strong> Human Rights Commission to Hear Discrimination Complaints of Canadians Detained in Syria;<\/strong> Critics say Ottawa harmed progress on intimate partner violence by invoking national security in case of assault by elite soldier;<\/strong> NDP statement on Canada\u2019s response to the genocide in Palestine;<\/strong> Protest challenges CANSEC weapons show in Ottawa; thirteen arrested at demonstration upholding international laws;<\/strong> \u201cDeath Traps\u201d: U.S.-Israeli Aid Scheme Paused in Gaza After 100+ Palestinians Killed While Waiting for Food;<\/strong> The U.S. launched 16 jets from the USS Harry S. Truman to drop 125,000 pounds of bombs in Somalia, killing 14;<\/strong> What exactly is Trump\u2019s new travel ban about? Not national security;<\/strong> Trump\u2019 immigration crackdown is leaving children terrified and \u2018truly alone\u2019;<\/strong> How Student Protesters and Immigrants Became Targets of Trump\u2019s Surveillance Tech;<\/strong> \u201cPanic, Terror, Chaos, Trauma\u201d:\u00a0SCOTUS\u00a0Ruling Lets Trump Strip Protections for 500K+ Immigrants;<\/strong> Judge rules Trump\u2019s deportations to El Salvador under Alien Enemies Act were illegal;<\/strong> Trump\u2019s Big, Beautiful Handout to the AI Industry U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data;<\/strong> CIA Interrogator Said Infamous Black Site Looked \u201cLike A Nazi Concentration Camp”;<\/strong> How the FBI and Big Ag Started Treating Animal Rights Activists as Bioterrorists; et plus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 24 mai 2025<\/a>: ICLMG & The Defend Dissent Coalition oppose Ottawa bubble by-law;<\/strong> Liberal government must prioritize strong, unequivocal action to protect civil liberties and human rights during time of turmoil;<\/strong> Syria: New urgency to end unlawful detention system holding tens of thousands of people following Islamic State defeat;<\/strong> Genocide in Gaza: The time for words is over, the time for action is now;<\/strong> Her husband and kids were given safe passage to Canada. She’s living in a tent in Gaza;<\/strong> As Trump Tours Mideast, Palestinians Report War-on-Terror-Like Torture in Israeli Jails;<\/strong> Gaza. Pour en finir avec la \u00ab guerre contre le terrorisme \u00bb;<\/strong> \u00ab Postes de police chinois \u00bb : quand la couverture m\u00e9diatique blesse une communaut\u00e9;<\/strong> UN: Start Talks on Treaty to Ban \u2018Killer Robots\u2019;<\/strong> Letter to the Prime Minister Urging Leadership on Refugees and Immigration;<\/strong> The “Invasion” Lie, The Intelligence Purge and The Threat to Habeas Corpus;<\/strong> Trump Is Building a Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE;<\/strong> Podcast: Migration, AI and The Rise of the Machines;<\/strong> Project Esther:\u00a0NYT\u00a0Details Right-Wing Plan to \u201cRebrand All Critics of Israel\u201d as Hamas Supporters;<\/strong> Trump admin claims donating to LGBTQ+ rights group undermines national security;<\/strong> UK special forces veterans accuse colleagues of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan;<\/strong> UK anti-terrorism tsar calls for anti-dissent laws; et plus!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 10 mai 2025<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>Canadian Government Files Motion to Strike (Dismiss) Our Case;<\/strong> Stop Repressive Protest Bans!;<\/strong> Toronto police move to upgrade facial recognition technology, raising concerns;<\/strong> ICE shows Canadians the frightening path the RCMP is on;<\/strong> Airlines Are Collecting Your Data and Selling It To ICE;<\/strong> How about a foreign policy that is truly a force for good?;<\/strong> Podcast: Maher Arar – The Syrian Revolution and Interrogation & Torture in Syrian Prison;<\/strong> Two months of cruel and inhumane siege are further evidence of Israel\u2019s genocidal intent in Gaza;<\/strong> Pentagon May Have Drawn on Anonymous Social Media Accounts in Planning Deadly Yemen Attack;<\/strong> \u201cA Dangerous Escalation\u201d: India Bombs Pakistan in Intensification of \u201cForever War\u201d over Kashmir;<\/strong> \u2018Killer Robots\u2019 Threaten Human Rights During War, Peace: Urgent Need for Treaty on Autonomous Weapon Systems;<\/strong> 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\u2019s 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\u2019s Border Security Bill: When Solidarity Becomes a Crime (video); EU\u2019s secretive \u201csecurity AI\u201d plans need critical, democratic scrutiny, says new report; et plus!<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 26 avril 2025<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>Updated ICLMG\u2019s Election 2025\u00a0: National Security Info Card; CSILC\u00a0: Le Canada doit se dissocier du r\u00e9gime de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale des \u00c9tats-Unis et prot\u00e9ger les droits, les libert\u00e9s et les personnes vuln\u00e9rables;<\/strong> Action:\u00a0These Kids Need Their Moms: Canada Must Immediately Evacuate Doaa and Nariman from Gaza;<\/strong> Family of 4 jailed in U.S. for weeks after Canadian border guards turned them away;<\/strong> Poilievre\u2019s plan to deport residents under the pretense of hate crimes is not leadership. It\u2019s dangerous politics;<\/strong> Canadian lawyers borrow from U.S. playbook to quash Palestine solidarity;<\/strong> Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow and City Council: Vote against any anti-protest “bubble” bylaw;<\/strong> Green Party deputy leader and Fairy Creek land defender appealing to the Supreme Court of Canada;<\/strong> Israel Is Using Suicide Drones to Target Displaced Palestinian Families Sheltering in Tents;<\/strong> Why Does \u201cNational Security\u201d Always Mean More War, Not More Health Care?;<\/strong> Pete Hegseth Is Gutting Pentagon Programs to Reduce Civilian Casualties;<\/strong> Can a U.S. Citizen Be Deported? Trump\u2019s Comments Raise Legal Alarms;<\/strong> If Trump flouts the Abrego Garcia rulings, the Constitution is done;<\/strong> What is a \u2018criminal\u2019 immigrant? The word is an American rhetorical trap;<\/strong> OFAC Alert on Cartel Designations: Growing Risks to Nonprofits from the Expanded Use of Counter-Terrorism Frameworks via FTO Designations;<\/strong> By Weaponizing Arrest Records and Suspending Due Process, the Trump Administration Has Targeted Over 1,000 Foreign Students;<\/strong> Trump\u2019s Social Media Surveillance: Social Scoring by Another Name;<\/strong> Guantanamo Judge Rules Government Cannot Use Confession Obtained Through Torture in\u00a09\/\u200b11\u00a0Capital\u00a0Case;<\/strong> From Atlanta to Kashmir, States Weaponize Counterterrorism Frameworks to Target Social Justice Movements;<\/strong> Tunisia: Crackdown on dissent intensifies with arrest of human rights lawyer following verdict in sham trial;<\/strong> UK student charged under counter-terror laws for protesting Gaza genocide; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 12 avril 2025<\/a>: ICLMG: Canada must disentangle from the US national security regime, and protect rights, freedoms and the vulnerable;<\/strong> For a Canada as welcoming as we are;<\/strong> Tim McSorley:\u00a0Government Proposal to Fight \u201cOnline Harms\u201d Presents Dangers of its Own;<\/strong> ICLMG 20th<\/sup> anniversary publication:\u00a0In Closing;<\/strong> UN experts urge end to ISIL-related arbitrary detention in North-East Syria and accountability for international crimes;<\/strong> Nineteen Years of Injustice: Demand Freedom for Huseyin Celil;<\/strong> The Copernic Affair: The professor accused of a Paris bombing;<\/strong> Iran-born Canadians denied US entry;<\/strong> Activists Occupy Global Affairs Office, Call For Israel Arms Embargo;<\/strong> OCHA, UNICEF, UNOPS, UNRWA, WFP, WHO and IOM:\u00a0World must act with urgency to save Palestinians in Gaza, top UN officials say;<\/strong> Under Primacy, Weapons Sales Will Always Supersede Human Rights;<\/strong> Hamas Launches Unprecedented Legal Case in Britain, Demanding the Government Remove its Terror Designation;<\/strong> Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported, Immigration Judge Rules;<\/strong> Trump Appears to Be Targeting Muslim and \u201cNon-White\u201d Students for Deportation;<\/strong> El Salvador And The Dark Lessons of Guantanamo;<\/strong> Homeland Security revokes legal status for migrants who entered U.S. using CBP One app;<\/strong> The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI;<\/strong> Civil Society Organisations Face Backlash After Trump, Musk Link USAID Grantees to \u2018Terrorism\u2019;<\/strong> Under Trump and Musk, billionaires wield unprecedented influence over US national security;<\/strong> 12 ‘terrorists’ killed in drone strikes by Pakistani forces, nine civilian deaths reported;<\/strong> This is Repression: Annual State of Protest UK Report 2024; et plus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 29 mars 2025<\/a>: Xan Dagenais:\u00a0COVID, Surveillance and Defending Privacy Rights;<\/strong> Maureen Webb:\u00a0Mobilizing Against Surveillance on the International Scene;<\/strong> Ontario\u2019s police force using \u2018growing ecosystem\u2019 of Israeli spyware \u2013 report;<\/strong> Roger Clark: Hassan Diab\u2019s Nightmare and the \u201cFascist Agenda\u201d;<\/strong> BCCLA Statement Against the Systemic Suppression of Support for Palestine;<\/strong> \u201cThe Target is Unmistakable\u201d: The Shooting of Gaza\u2019s Children;<\/strong> Costs of War: Lessons from Fallujah: War Returnees Face Long-Term Health Risks from Heavy Metal Exposure;<\/strong> 10 Years of War on Yemen: Leaked War Plan Chats Overshadow U.S. Deadly History Targeting Yemen;<\/strong> How the \u2018war on terror\u2019 paved the way for student deportations in the US;<\/strong> Faisa Patel: U.S. AI-Driven \u201cCatch and Revoke\u201d Initiative Threatens First Amendment Rights;<\/strong> How a Landlord and a Florida PR Firm Helped Trump Kick Off the Tren de Aragua Gang Panic;<\/strong> U.S. to revoke legal status of more than a half-million migrants, urges them to self deport;<\/strong> The FBI Is Investigating Attacks on Tesla as \u2018Domestic Terrorism.\u2019 Here\u2019s Why That Matters;<\/strong> Lawyers and Courts Must Not Back Down as President Trump Issues Executive Order Calling for Sanctions and Investigations of Attorneys and Law Firms;<\/strong> 1,400+ Arrested in Turkey as Erdo\u011fan Jails Istanbul Mayor & Intensifies Authoritarian Crackdown;<\/strong> Pakistan: Systematic attacks and relentless crackdown on Baloch activists must end;<\/strong> Regional organisations must respect and promote human rights while countering terrorism: UN expert; et plus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 15 mars 2025<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>Brenda McPhail:\u00a0Facial Recognition Technology: Rights, Risks and Required Regulation;<\/strong> David Lyon:\u00a0The ICLMG and Surveillance Studies at Queen\u2019s University;<\/strong> Ronald Deibert:\u00a0The U.S. Wants Canada to Become A Police State;<\/strong> Canada-U.S. Cross-Border Surveillance Negotiations Raise Constitutional and Human Rights Whirlwind under U.S. CLOUD Act;<\/strong> The Canadian Guide to Understanding and Combatting Islamophobia: For a more inclusive Canada;<\/strong> Electric shock equipment widely abused by law enforcement agencies due to alarming lack of regulation;<\/strong> Activists take protest to the doorstep of Canada\u2019s Defence Minister after repeatedly ignoring calls for action;<\/strong> US, Israel want to displace Palestinians from Gaza to East Africa: Report;<\/strong> Trump\u2019s \u201cGenocidal\u201d Threat to Gaza: If Hamas Won\u2019t Release Hostages, \u201cYou Are DEAD\u201d;<\/strong> Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is A War on Terror Milestone;<\/strong> An All-American Nightmare: How to Build a Deportation Machine in the Age of Trump;<\/strong> Tesla Takedown: Protests Grow Across the U.S. as Trump & Musk Brand Activists as Terrorists;<\/strong> Myanmar: Four years after coup, junta increases legal restrictions and continues its persecution of political prisoners; <\/strong>et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 1er mars 2025<\/a>: ICLMG: Canada must abolish the rights-violating terror entities list;<\/strong> ICLMG welcomes commitment to tackle prejudiced audits of Muslim-led charities in Canada from Liberal leadership contender, calls on others to follow suit;<\/strong> CBSA complaints commission still not up and running – interviews with ICLMG & CCR;<\/strong> Patricia Poirier:\u00a0Information Clearinghouse on Border Controls and Infringements to Travellers\u2019 Rights;<\/strong> Alex Neve:\u00a0Without Effective Review, Human Rights Remain Tenuous;<\/strong> Internal report urged Canada to counter rhetoric about a ‘crisis’ at border;<\/strong> Brandi Morin in Ecuador part 3: Bullets and beatings support Canadian mine;<\/strong> RCMP caused ‘serious interference’ with press freedom in 2020 Wet’suwet’en raid, review body finds;<\/strong> CUASA: A Letter to the Carleton Community in Support of Dr. Hassan Diab;<\/strong> Gazan families sue Canada for visa application delays;<\/strong> CJPME joins 230+ organisations in urging F-35 partners to stop arming Israel;<\/strong> Detained, Dehumanized, Forgotten: The Endless Cycle of Guant\u00e1namo;<\/strong> UN experts: Belarus government committed crimes against humanity to suppress opposition;<\/strong> Vietnamese government declares human rights organisation as a terrorist group;<\/strong> Thailand: \u2018Deportation\u2019 of Uyghurs to China \u2018unimaginably cruel\u2019;<\/strong> Hong Kong To Tighten Union Rules To ‘Protect National Security\u2019;<\/strong> Apple removes advanced data protection tool in face of UK government request; et plus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 14 f\u00e9vrier 2025<\/a>: Carleton University Fails to Counter Smears Against Hassan Diab; Joint Letter on the UK Government\u2019s use of Investigatory Powers Act to attack End-to-End Encryption; Janet Dench: Upholding the Rights of Asylum Seekers; \u00a0Tim McSorley: A Victory for Citizenship Equality!;<\/strong> Abdelrazik’s lawyer cites ‘serial hypocrisies’ in final detention case arguments;<\/strong> As Trump\u2019s anti-migrant push gains steam, advocates urge Canada to act;<\/strong> Immigration lawyers accuse Ottawa of stalling on visa approvals for thousands of stranded Gazans;<\/strong> US proposal to \u2018take over\u2019 Gaza would shatter fundamental rules of international order, warn UN experts;<\/strong> Trump the \u201cPeacemaker\u201d Ramps Up America\u2019s Forever War in Somalia;<\/strong> Center for Constitutional Rights Challenges Trump Migrant Flights to Guant\u00e1namo, ICC Sanctions & More;<\/strong> Corey Saylor: What America\u2019s Muslims can teach you about resisting political oppression;<\/strong> Spencer Ackerman: Elon Musk and The Security State’s Uvalde Moment;<\/strong> Surveillance Without Scrutiny: Trump\u2019s PCLOB Purge Could Be Highly Consequential;<\/strong> Noura Erakat: The Boomerang Comes Back;<\/strong> Craig Murray: UN Censures UK Abuse of Terrorism Act; <\/strong>Australia – Mandatory sentencing is not the answer;<\/strong> Philippines: Terrorism-Financing Charges Abused India: NGOs call on the EU to take action on urgent human rights concerns; <\/strong>et plus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 1er f\u00e9vrier 2025<\/a>: Eight years since the Quebec City Mosque massacre: ICLMG renews commitment to fight against Islamophobia;<\/strong> Hogue Commission succeeds in setting the record straight on foreign interference, but misses opportunity to highlight government failure to protect civil liberties;<\/strong> Lutter contre l\u2019ing\u00e9rence sans bafouer les droits; Justin Mohammed:\u00a0The Fight for the Return of Canadians Detained in Northeast Syria;<\/strong> Khadija Cajee: Kids on Canada\u2019s No-Fly List;<\/strong> Matthew Behrens: Canada Must Urgently Process Gaza Visa Applications During Ceasefire Window;<\/strong> After the ceasefire, Israel is still acting with impunity;<\/strong> It\u2019s time for Canada to withdraw from the Safe Third Country Agreement;<\/strong> Owen Schalk: Forced disappearances in Kandahar show need for Canadian Afghanistan Papers;<\/strong> Hassan Diab: An Innocent Man Scapegoated by Lies and Disinformation;<\/strong> India detaining, ejecting Canadian man is the latest example of revived ‘blacklist’ for Sikhs: experts;<\/strong> A climate activist was deported from Canada \u2014 a first;<\/strong> Mass Deportation\u2019s War-on-Terror DNA;<\/strong> Trump moves to close Pentagon office focused on curbing civilian deaths; America\u2019s gulag\u2019: Trump\u2019s Guant\u00e1namo ploy tars migrants as terrorists;<\/strong> VICTORY! Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional;<\/strong> A decade of attacks on our democratic rights \u2013 a timeline;<\/strong> Australia – Excessive Force, Special Powers, and Misinformation Characterise Policing of DLF Protests, Report Finds;<\/strong> Russia: Special Rapporteur appalled by prison sentences to punish Navalny lawyers;<\/strong> Six UN Special Rapporteurs to the Italian Government: Human rights concerns over the “Security Package” Bill; et plus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 18 janvier 2025<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>ICYMI: What we\u2019ve 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 \u2018War on Terror\u2019: 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\u2019s 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 r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s de la Palestine, une obligation morale, une affaire de dignit\u00e9, un devoir d\u2019humanit\u00e9; ‘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\u2019s 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 \u2018continued misuse\u2019 of T\u00fcrkiye counter-terrorism law; Egypt: Special Rapporteur concerned about use of anti-terrorism legislation against human rights defenders; Swansea mother \u2018traumatised\u2019 by arrest under Terrorism Act; Italian security decree “most serious attack on right to protest in recent decades”; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 7 d\u00e9cembre 2024<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>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 \u201ccybercrime\u201d 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\u2019s Time for the US to Ditch \u2018Terrorism\u2019 Designations Altogether; Defense Secretary strips Guant\u00e1namo 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: \u2018It threatens democracy and freedom\u2019; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 23 novembre 2024<\/a>: New independent review body for CBSA welcome, but falls short \u2013 interview with ICLMG; Pamela Palmater:\u00a0Canada\u2019s National Security Practices Part of Genocide Against First Nations; Jen Moore:\u00a0Canada and Criminalization in the War Over Land and Nature; Senator Kim Pate,\u00a0Alex Neve,\u00a0Hadayt 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;<\/strong> Joint letter: Urgent changes needed to Canada\u2019s Temporary Residence Visa Program for Gazans;<\/strong> Four pro-Palestinian protesters arrested for allegedly blocking road;<\/strong> The Most Dangerous Domestic Antiterrorism Bill Since The PATRIOT Act;<\/strong> Homeland insecurity: the rise and rise of global anti-terrorism law;<\/strong> Amnesty International: Write for Rights!;<\/strong> Special Rapporteur urges Security Council to renew humanitarian exemption to counter-terrorism sanctions;<\/strong> Biden’s AI Spying Rules Are A Last Gift of Power To Trump;<\/strong> America\u2019s Shadow War in Yemen Has Its Own Racist Military Swag;<\/strong> Abu Ghraib Verdict: Iraqi Torture Survivors Win Landmark Case as Jury Holds Private Contractor CACI Liable;<\/strong> Five killed in Turkish drone strikes on PKK members in northern Iraq;<\/strong> 45 activists sentenced in Hong Kong national security case. The longest term is 10 years;<\/strong> Imran\u2019s close aide and former Pakistan foreign minister, 20 others indicted by court;<\/strong> Action: Saudi Arabia must release\u00a0Mohammad bin Nasser al-Ghamdi immediately and unconditionally;<\/strong> Cara and Celeste, charged with eco-terrorism, accused of freeing mink from fur farm, are out of jail; <\/strong>et plus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 9 novembre 2024<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>Letter to Minister Joly: Urgent Call for Independent Investigation into the Death of Canadian Citizen FJ; Canada\u2019s 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\u2019s 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 \u2018terrorists\u2019 abroad, why isn\u2019t 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\u2019s Proposal to Imprison the Innocent; La d\u00e9sob\u00e9issance civile au service des droits humains; La “fr\u00e9n\u00e9sie” autour de l’ing\u00e9rence \u00e9trang\u00e8re jette une ombre sur la communaut\u00e9 chinoise; Kenya: Security Forces Abducted, Killed Protesters; Law to ban UNRWA amounts to criminalization of humanitarian aid; ACLU Asks Supreme Court to Hear Guant\u00e1namo Attorney\u2019s Lawsuit Challenging CIA\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 25 octobre 2024<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>Canada\u2019s 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 \u2018Anti-Racist\u2019 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\u2019s killing of Hamas\u2019s leader should mean an end to this war. It probably won\u2019t; Pakistan – Fourth Schedule: Combating terrorism or silencing dissent?; Turkey\u2019s Crackdown on Students and Women: Criminalising Ordinary Life; Philippines: Authorities increasingly using Facebook to stifle young activists\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 11 octobre 2024<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>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\u00a0Defending Civil Liberties in an Age of Counter-terrorism and National Security<\/em>;<\/strong> Roch Tass\u00e9: The ICLMG\u2019s Beginnings and the Commissions of Inquiry;<\/strong> Canada’s terror list targeted against those opposing Israeli terror;<\/strong> 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;<\/strong> Legal action underway to force Canadian Forces to release propaganda documents; The killing of Hassan Nasrallah and how the west legitimised its use of\u00a0assassination; After 23 Years. It’s Time to End the War on Terror for Good;<\/strong> Jammu & Kashmir: New report details India\u2019s land rights violations since the abrogation of statehood;<\/strong> Pakistan: Authorities must immediately revoke ban on Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement; Niger: New Terrorism Database Threatens Rights; EU: Definition of \u201cpotential terrorists\u201d opens door to broad information-sharing; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 27 septembre 2024<\/a>: 20 Years of Defending Civil Liberties: Publication launch & online panel!; 20 ans de d\u00e9fense des libert\u00e9s civiles: Lancement & panel francophone montr\u00e9alais; What To Do About Foreign Interference: Nick Robinson in conversation with Tim McSorley on Oct 1st<\/sup>; Abdul Nakua: Bill C-70 could further erode minority rights; Two Canadians with ties to Ottawa killed in Lebanon; Report from Beirut: Israel Is \u201cTargeting Everyone\u201d 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 \u2018Speech Crimes\u2019; 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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 14 septembre 2024<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>Defending Civil Liberties in an Age of Counter-terrorism and National Security; Online Harms Conference featuring ICLMG\u2019s 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\u2019t Hype the Terror Threat: The Dangers of Official Alarmism; Turkey\u2019s political dissidents face arbitrary prosecutions, report says; Encryption FAQ: encrypted messaging, AI, content moderation, et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 30 ao\u00fbt 2024<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>New ICLMG online event: Twenty Years of Defending Civil Liberties From the Impact of Counter-terrorism;<\/strong> Fareed Khan: Canada shows it doesn\u2019t really care about stopping genocide;<\/strong> Alex Neve:\u00a0One year on: My shaken but determined belief that human rights will prevail in Northeast Syria;<\/strong> Green Party of Canada Stands Against the Extradition of Dr. Hassan Diab; <\/strong>National security agencies should explain how they’re using AI: federal advisory body; Who saved Chinese Family Services?;<\/strong> BC\u2019s Secretive Plan to Tighten Protest Response;<\/strong> ‘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;<\/strong> Stop the Crackdown in Bangladesh!;<\/strong> Venezuela: Ongoing arbitrary detentions, disproportionate use of force fuelling climate of fear, T\u00fcrk warns;<\/strong> Joint Statement: EU Should Press India to End Rights Abuses;<\/strong> Kazakhstan: Unjustified \u2018Financing Terrorism\u2019 Restrictions;<\/strong> China: UN rights office reiterates need to review national security framework;<\/strong> A Global Treaty to Fight Cybercrime\u2014Without Combating Mercenary Spyware; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 16 ao\u00fbt 2024<\/a>: How Canada\u2019s \u2018off-the-record\u2019 arms exports end up in Israel; Israel\u2019s \u2018War on Terror\u2019 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 \u2014 even when it admitted to killing civilians; Spencer Ackerman: The Cowardice of Lloyd Austin; Bangladesh on Brink as Anti-Government Protests Become \u2018People\u2019s Uprising\u2019; 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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 25 juillet 2024<\/a>: Groups representing minorities say they’re alarmed by foreign interference legislation;<\/strong> LNG is an intelligence operation: TC Energy has spies, soldiers, even a former CIA director pushing pipelines and fracking in B.C. But they\u2019re not invincible;<\/strong> Universities, police spread \u2018jaw-dropping\u2019 misinformation about encampments;<\/strong> Feds were warned about setting \u2018significant precedent\u2019 with Ukraine visa program;<\/strong> The spy who kept notes: Pulling back the Cold War curtain on Canada\u2019s ignominious history of anti-communism;<\/strong> Anti-Terrorism Laws Are Being Used Against Environmentalists;<\/strong> Natasha Lennard: The Only Kind of \u201cPolitical Violence\u201d All U.S. Politicians Oppose;<\/strong> \u2018Terrorist Organization\u2019 \u2013 Israeli Knesset Passes First Reading of Bills to Ban UNRWA;<\/strong> Iraq Hangs 10 ‘Terror’ Convicts;<\/strong> Paris Olympics security sweep upends lives;<\/strong> Sri Lanka: False Terrorism Cases Enable Repression;<\/strong> AANES releases 180 terrorism-related prisoners in Syria\u2019s Hasakah;<\/strong> Head psychologist defends CIA waterboarding of inmates in 9\/11 case; et plus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 12 juillet 2024<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>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 \u2018Hamas Call\u2019 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; \u2018I\u2019m bored, so I shoot\u2019: The Israeli army\u2019s 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 \u201cexcruciating detail\u201d about the CIA\u2019s abuses; Civil Rights Advocates Achieve the Nation\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 21 juin 2024<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>Charter Rights Under Threat as Parliament Fails to Fix Foreign Interference Bill;<\/strong> Fahad Ahmad\u00a0&\u00a0Jeffrey Monaghan: Painting Arabs and Muslims as a threat to Canada is irresponsible;<\/strong> States and companies must end arms transfers to Israel immediately or risk responsibility for human rights violations: UN experts;<\/strong> Owen Schalk: Canada is still blocking aid to Afghanistan;<\/strong> ‘In prison because of our parents’: Children of alleged ISIS fighters coming of age in detention ask what they’re being punished for;<\/strong> New UN Special Rapporteur\u2019s Report Underscores Risks of Abusive Counterterrorism;<\/strong> UAVs continually kill civilians, but the U.S. military wants to expand its arsenal with an army of new, mass-produced kamikaze AI drones;<\/strong> International People’s Tribunal: US, Marcos & Duterte Guilty of Massive War Crimes;<\/strong> Arundhati Roy \u2018anti-terror\u2019 charge part of a push to silence Modi\u2019s\u00a0critics;<\/strong> Anti-terrorism court judge accuses Pakistan’s spy agency ISI of harassing him and his family to get desired verdicts;<\/strong> Paris Olympics crowd scans fuel AI surveillance fears;<\/strong> Signal: New Branding, Same Scanning: \u201cUpload Moderation\u201d Undermines End-to-End Encryption; <\/strong>et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 7 juin 2024<\/a>: Alarmed groups urge MPs to extend study of troubling new foreign interference bill;<\/strong> What we\u2019ve been up to so far in 2024;<\/strong> A call for Canadian support for the ICC\u2019s work with respect to Palestine\/Israel;<\/strong> Palestine Legal Warns Against Escalating Efforts to Weaponize Terror Laws and Suppress Advocacy for Palestinian Rights;<\/strong> Citizen Lab: Ottawa wants the power to create secret backdoors in our networks to allow for surveillance;<\/strong> Canadian Jack Letts has been illegally detained without charge for 2,582 days in Northeast Syria;<\/strong> Canada’s war in Afghanistan;<\/strong> Last chance: Sign the parliamentary petition for justice for Hassan Diab before June 10th<\/sup>;<\/strong> Amina Shareef: Dismantle the knowledge systems that enable genocide;<\/strong> What does the death of a jailed Jesuit priest say about India’s democracy under Modi?;<\/strong> Iraq Hangs Eight Convicted Of ‘Terrorism’: Sources;<\/strong> Guant\u00e1namo Scandal: Eleven Men Were Set To Be Freed Last October, Until \u2018Political Optics\u2019 Shifted After Hamas\u2019 Attack On Israel \u2013 OpEd;<\/strong> 14 pro-democracy activists convicted, 2 acquitted in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case;<\/strong> European Court of Human Rights: Important decision against mass surveillance;<\/strong> As DHS Implements New AI Technologies, It Must Overcome Old Shortcomings; et plus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 25 mai 2024<\/a>: Joint letter urges Justice Minister to split Bill C-63, the new Online Harms Act; Muslim charities want a tough talk with the CRA; Priorit\u00e9 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\u2019s 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 Guant\u00e1namo Bay for 20 years without charge, then sent him to have his rights violated in Algeria; Who\u2019s a \u201cpotential terrorist or violent extremist threat\u201d? Plans to exchange information about \u201cfuture\u201d criminals; Mass executions in Iraq under anti-terrorism laws of ‘great concern’, UN envoy says; Sri Lanka\u2019s killing fields cast a long shadow; No Justice for Crackdown in Tajikistan\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 11 mai 2024<\/a>: Provisions of new foreign interference bill will have much broader consequences on rights and freedoms in Canada;<\/strong> Canadian coalition calls for urgent action to uphold civil liberties and Charter rights at protests and encampments across the country;<\/strong> Arms Embargo on Israel Now;<\/strong> 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;<\/strong> ‘The world is too messy for bureaucratic hurdles’: Canada still bars Afghanistan aid;<\/strong> Court concludes curbing parliamentary immunity of spy watchdog members is constitutional;<\/strong> Report Reveals Serious Human Rights Violations as First Quantum Enters Annual Shareholder Meeting;<\/strong> Special Toronto screening of Manufacturing the Threat;<\/strong> Watchdog calls out ‘gaps’ in how Canada conducted online intelligence operations;<\/strong> Nigeria has gotten billions in U.S. security assistance even as its counterterrorism campaign has a massive civilian death toll<\/strong>;<\/strong> Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail of Palestinians in shadowy detention center;<\/strong> ACLU: A disturbing national security bill could silence nonprofits and college protests;<\/strong> Former Guant\u00e1namo Bay detainee faces re-victimisation in Algeria, UN experts say;<\/strong> Lawsuit by Abu Ghraib Torture Survivors Ends in Mistrial Even as CACI\u2019s Role Made Clear in U.S. Court;<\/strong> Met police to pay \u2018five-figure sum\u2019 to French publisher arrested under anti-terror laws;<\/strong> European Court gives notification to T\u00fcrkiye of second batch of 1,000 applications concerning convictions for terrorism offences based on use of ByLock messaging application;<\/strong> Russia: UN Human Rights Chief troubled by increasing crackdown on journalists;<\/strong> Makabayan officer, activists push back vs anti-terror law complaint filed by military;<\/strong> Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years in prison for \u2018support\u2019 of women\u2019s rights; <\/strong>et plus.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 27 avril 2024<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>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; \u2018Secret\u2019 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 \u201crepression and persecution\u201d 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; \u201cEnormous Expansion of the Law\u201d: 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\u2019s complicity in rights-violating counter-extremism programmes in Indonesia; What happens when activists are branded \u2018terrorists\u2019 in the Philippines?; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 13 avril 2024<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>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\u2019s 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 \u2013 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\u2019s Terrorism Laws Target Everyone But the Real Threat; \u00c9coutes, g\u00e9olocalisations : de plus en plus de personnes sont surveill\u00e9es en France; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 29 mars 2024<\/a>: URGENT: Send a message to M\u00e9lanie 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\u2019s 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 \u201cTop Secret\u201d?; Chief Na\u2019Moks: The RCMP\u2019s specialized C-IRG unit exists to crush Indigenous resistance; Attempt to Advance Environmental Consultation for Atico\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 16 mars 2024<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>ICLMG\u2019s 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; \u201cEverything is by the Power of the Weapon\u201d: 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\u2019s in the UK\u2019s new definition of \u2018extremism\u2019; Socialism, anti-fascism and anti-abortion on Prevent list of terrorism warning signs; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 2 mars 2024<\/a>:<\/span><\/span> 75+ Canadian civil society organizations – including ICLMG – call on Ministers Joly, Hussen, and Miller to \u201cStop Genocide or Resign\u201d; 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\u2019s submission to the Privacy Commissioner\u2019s consultation on biometrics guidance; AI bill \u2018democratically illegitimate\u2019 and litigation \u2018likely\u2019 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\u2019amisyu Clan Wing Chief Dsta\u2019hyl guilty of criminal contempt for upholding Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en 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 \u2018exceptional\u2019 measures to tackle terror and extremism; The United States must be held accountable for its \u2018war on terror\u2019 crimes; I was taken from Australia as a boy to live under IS in Syria. Now I want to come home; \u00a0Environmental 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\u2019s rights online; Q&A: The Citizen Lab\u2019s John Scott-Railton on tackling the ongoing threat of Pegasus; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 17 f\u00e9vrier 2024<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>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 Qu\u00e9bec 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; T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s Strikes Wreak Havoc on Northeast Syria; Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Author Q&A with Dr. Maha Hilal; Sunsetting the War on Terror \u2014 Or Not: The Stubborn Legacy of America\u2019s 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 \u2014 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\u2019s Authoritarian Descent: The Case of Prabir Purukayastha; et plus.<\/p>\n

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News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 6 janvier 2024<\/a>: <\/span>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 Guant\u00e1namo \u2018forever prisoner\u2019 can sue the government under English law \u2013 here\u2019s why it\u00a0matters; 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 \u201cpause and urgent review\u201d, 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 violenc<\/span>e;<\/span> India bans pro-Pakistan separatist party over alleged terrorism support;<\/span><\/span> 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; <\/span>et plus.<\/span><\/p>\n

La Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9 \u00e9tait en pause.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 9 d\u00e9cembre 2023<\/a>: <\/span>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\u2019s Anti-Palestinian Bias; \u201cMass Assassination Factory\u201d: Israel Using AI to Generate Targets in Gaza, Increasing Civilian Toll; European governments donors\u2019 discriminatory funding restrictions to Palestinian civil society risk deepening human rights crisis; <\/span>Tim McSorley Speaks with the CCU on Artificial Intelligence;<\/span><\/span> 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; \u2018<\/span>The Judge Sided with Peace\u2019: Supporters celebrate as the first Coastal GasLink criminal trial ends in a not guilty verdict;<\/span> 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\u2019 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\u2019s new laws to re-detain migrants at risk of reoffending to be modelled on Coalition\u2019s anti-terror orders; <\/span>et plus<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 25 novembre 2023<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>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 \u201cUnprecedented\u201d 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 \u2018undermining\u2019 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 \u2018Abuses\u2019; 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 11 novembre 2023<\/a>: <\/span>Joint Statement against the attack on free speech and the labelling of pro-Palestinian rallies as \u2018hate rallies\u2019; 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; <\/span>ICLMG on Senate report:\u00a0Combatting Hate: Islamophobia & its impact on Muslims in Canada;<\/span> 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\u2019s dangerous terrorist content regulation to court; Amnesty calls for Prevent strategy to be abolished over \u2018human rights abuses\u2019; Second investigation to open into role of British spies in torture of Guant\u00e1namo 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; <\/span>Craig Murray:\u00a0Incredibly, I Face Investigation for Terrorism;<\/span> Reclaiming Security Webinar Series: Putting people & planet at the heart of national strategies; <\/span>NEW <\/span>ACTION: <\/span>Canada: Remove the national security exemptions from Bill C-27!;<\/span> et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 28 octobre 2023<\/a>: <\/span>ICLMG: Canada must support\u00a0human rights and civil liberties in Gaza and at home!; <\/span>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\u2019s accusation of \u2018terrorism\u2019 is a ploy to hide its own human rights\u00a0abuses; 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 \u2018his name was Mohammad\u2019; Human rights violations while countering terrorism are systematic across the globe: UN expert; War on the \u2018Women\u2019s Revolution:\u2019 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\u2019s counter-terrorism bill fails to heed their recommendations, status quo fundamentally unchanged<\/span>; et plus.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 13 octobre 2023<\/a>: <\/span>M\u00e9moire sur le projet de loi C-27, la Loi de 2022 sur la mise en \u0153uvre de la Charte du num\u00e9rique; \u2018<\/span>The devil\u2019s in the details, and we don\u2019t have any\u2019: critics, civil liberties groups decry feds\u2019 lack of clarity on changes to privacy and AI bill; <\/span>Confront 9\/11 Politics And They Can Be Defeated;<\/span> Independent Jewish Voices Calls for a Ceasefire and Systemic Change in Palestine-Israel; Global calls for immediate action to halt Turkey\u2019s \u2018war against humanity\u2019 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; <\/span>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\u2019s hidden and forgotten forever war; \u2018<\/span>Newburgh Four\u2019 Terrorism Case Releases Show Dire Need for FBI Reforms<\/span>; 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 \u2018troubled\u2019 over Hong Kong\u2019s 47 democrats trial under national security law; F<\/span>rance –\u00a0<\/span>Affaire du 8 d\u00e9cembre\u00a0: L\u2019antiterrorisme \u00e0 l\u2019assaut des luttes sociales;<\/span> UN: Human rights concerns over two draft laws in Sri Lanka; <\/span>Why your data might already be on a Europol list<\/span>; <\/span>\u2018<\/span>Predator Files\u2019 spyware scandal reveals brazen targeting of civil society, politicians and officials; et plus.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 29 septembre 2023<\/a>: <\/span>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\u2019s Artificial Intelligence and Data Act is not up to the task; ICLMG\u2019s 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\u00a0: le harc\u00e8lement judiciaire contre la journaliste Ariane Lavrilleux est une atteinte intol\u00e9rable \u00e0 la libert\u00e9 de la presse; Interpol: multi-million dollar \u201cpredictive analytics\u201d\u00a0system\u00a0under construction; Bangladesh: Government must cease enforced disappearances, stop harassment of the victims\u2019 families and hold perpetrators accountable; \u201cIf We Raise Our Voice They Arrest Us\u201d:\u00a0Sri Lanka\u2019s Proposed Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Philippines:\u00a0<\/span>Global rights groups assail terror law misuse;<\/span> Time to revoke death penalty for social media dissent, UN experts urge; <\/span>How Hong Kong Authorities Are Using National Security Law to Target Dissidents; <\/span>et plus.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 16 septembre, 2023<\/a>: <\/span>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 \u2018overjoyed\u2019 to get word of son following Canadian delegation visit of the camps; Une experte de l\u2019ONU d\u00e9crit l\u2019enfer que vivent des enfants canadiens d\u00e9tenus en Syrie; Proc\u00e8s de l\u2019attentat de la rue Copernic \u00e0 Paris. Les dessous d\u2019un verdict annonc\u00e9; CAUT issued\u00a0warning to its researchers: “You do\u00a0not have a legal obligation to talk to a CSIS officer”; Playbook for RCMP\u2019s Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en raids provided by former U.S. commander in Iraq and Afghanistan; Quand la police \u00abproduit la menace\u00bb au nom de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9; Canada and Saudi arms exports; The Canadian government\u2019s poor track record on public consultations undermines its ability to regulate new\u00a0technologies; 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; \u201cA Political Prosecution\u201d: 61 Cop City Opponents Hit with\u00a0RICO\u00a0Charges by Georgia\u2019s 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’;<\/span> Explainer: Hong Kong\u2019s national security crackdown \u2013 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 \u201cthreat\u201d; Australia: Labor\u2019s counter-terror laws may stifle \u2018political dissent\u2019, Law Council warns; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 18 ao\u00fbt 2023<\/a>: <\/span>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\u2019intelligence artificielle et les donn\u00e9es 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 \u2018terror\u2019 for its political ends; It\u2019s 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\u2019s False Arrest in Detroit Shows \u201cRacism Gets Embedded\u201d 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 \u2018extraordinary\u2019 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 \u2018happy\u2019 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\u2019s Independence Day; The Dissident: Umar Khalid Challenged Modi\u2019s Anti-Muslim Agenda. India Accused Him of Terrorism and Locked Him Up; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 4 ao\u00fbt 2023<\/a>: <\/span>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\u2019s security screening \u2014 and its problems; Gar Pardy: The Law and its Absurdities; Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en 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:\u00a0War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine;<\/span> 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\u2019s forever legacy: Shutting down Guant\u00e1namo is hardly the last step; \u201cFBI-Orchestrated Conspiracy\u201d: 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\u2019s Use of \u201cDomestic Violent Extremism\u201d Negatively Impacts Civil Rights and Liberties; Final EU negotiations: we need an AI Act that puts people first; From Napol\u00e9on to Macron: How France learned to love Big Brother; \u2018We Are Hiding in Forests\u2019: Fear in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Rohingya Camps After Anti-Terrorism Squad Arrests 74; Al Jazeera slams naming of its journalists on Egypt \u2018terror\u2019 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\u2019s power grab; Hong Kong Court Says Protest Song is Matter of National Security; “We condemn the arrest of Russian intellectual Boris Kagarlitsky” et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 22 juillet 2023<\/a>: <\/span>650+ individuals call on Prime Minister Trudeau to say \u201cNo\u201d to a 2nd extradition for Hassan Diab; Lettre commune: Le Canada ne doit pas extrader Hassan Diab \u00e0 la demande de la France; Canada\u2019s \u2018Counterinsurgency Doctrine\u2019 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\u2019re in an AI hype cycle\u2014can 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 \u2018repression and reprisal\u2019; A new global cybercrime treaty risks becoming yet another legal instrument to punish and muzzle the press; Closing Guantanamo Bay Prison Won\u2019t 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: Emp\u00eacher l’acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la bassine quel qu’en soit le co\u00fbt 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 8 juillet 2023<\/a>: <\/span>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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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 Guant\u00e1namo detention facility and affirms rights of victims of terrorism and victims of counter-terrorism; Remembering Guant\u00e1namo\u2019s Dead On 17th Anniversary Of An Implausible \u2018Triple Suicide\u2019; 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 24 juin 2023<\/a>: <\/span>Bill C-41:\u00a0Changes to anti-terror laws a step forward on humanitarian aid, but leave other forms of vital international assistance\u00a0behind; 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\u2019s FRT & AI Report and the Government\u2019s Response; Human Rights Advocates Discuss Upcoming Trip to Syrian Detention Camps; Prime Minister Trudeau: Say\u00a0\u201cNo\u201d 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; \u2018Hamoudi\u2019s gone\u2019: Palestinian village reels after Israeli soldiers kill toddler; Calls for solidarity, as Turkish drones assassinate members of the Kurdish women\u2019s movement; New and emerging technologies need urgent oversight and robust transparency: UN experts; New UN Security Council Resolution on \u201cHuman Fraternity\u201d Raises Human Rights Concerns; Twenty Years Too Many: A Call to Stop the FBI’s Secret Watchlist; How DHS is Fueling Georgia\u2019s \u201cTerrorism\u201d Crackdown on Cop City Protests; After GOP pressure, FBI abortion \u201cterrorism\u201d 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\u2019 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\u2019s Non-U.S. Military Exports Go To Anti-Democratic Regimes; UK universities and the further development of killer robots and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 10 juin 2023<\/a>: <\/span>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\u2019s 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\u2019s support to the counter-terrorism campaign in the Philippines; Canadian Muslim charity wins ‘milestone’ settlement after being falsely accused of funding terrorism; \u2018We are being treated like trash\u2019: 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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s death; Amnesty International expresses concerns over Sri Lanka\u2019s continued use of draconian anti-terrorism laws; En France, une vague d\u2019arrestations contre le mouvement \u00e9cologiste radical; France: Affaire du 8 d\u00e9cembre: Le chiffrement des communications assimil\u00e9 \u00e0 un comportement terroriste; Europe fixed its poor intelligence sharing. Now it\u2019s a privacy risk; Reporters Without Borders: Macau national security law threatens residents and journalists; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 26 mai 2023<\/a>: <\/span>RCMP, Islamophobia, and the \u201cWar on Terror\u201d; 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 13 mai 2023<\/a>: <\/span>Des associations juives canadiennes et fran\u00e7aises 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\u2019s 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 \u2014 investigation is under way; Brandi Morin: Stranded on the dark roads of Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en 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 \u2018imminent executions\u2019 in Saudi Arabia; \u2018The forever prisoner\u2019: Abu Zubaydah\u2019s drawings expose the US\u2019s depraved torture policy; \u2018Crimes against humanity\u2019: UN body calls for release of Guant\u00e1namo inmate; U.S. Domestic Terrorism Prosecutions: The Reality Behind the Government\u2019s Inflated Numbers; DHS Rebrands and Expands Biased, Ineffective Countering Violent Extremism Program; US \u2018war on terror\u2019 feeding global anti-Muslim feelings \u2013 scholar; Explainer: Hong Kong\u2019s national security crackdown \u2013 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 \u2018deeply troubling\u2019 Public Order Bill; Tunisia: Move to Dismantle Country\u2019s Largest Opposition Party; No to spyware: media, civil society demand ban on tech used for human rights abuses; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 29 avril 2023<\/a>: <\/span>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 \u2013 my son, the enemy of the state; ‘A chilling effect’: Muslim charities fall prey to Canada\u2019s double standards; NDP plans humanitarian exemption amendment for bill easing aid restrictions; Canadian Surveillance Under the Microscope; Ben & Jerry\u2019s wants this contentious RCMP unit abolished; Azeezah Kanji: Charges Against Stop Cop City Protesters Continue Terror of \u201cAnti-Terrorism; Oregon Domestic Terrorism Law Targets the Far Right. Here\u2019s How It\u2019ll 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; \u2018Chilling\u2019 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 \u2013 illegal; Monitor reporter\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 15 avril 2023<\/a>: <\/span>Hassan Diab’s kafkaesque nightmare continues: Trial in absentia underway in France; ICLMG\u2019s submission to United Nations for Canada\u2019s Universal Periodic Review; Urgent repatriation of Canadians detained in northeast Syria only rights-compliant response: legal community to PM Trudeau; \u2018Unnecessary\u2019 Muslims: Ottawa appeals to prolong torture of Canadians detained in Syria; Taxpayers\u2019 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\u2019s 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 H\u00e9bert: Think intelligence agencies always get it right? Here\u2019s 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\u2019suwet\u2019en territory a \u2018flagrant attack\u2019 on Indigenous rights; ‘Canada can no longer stand on the sidelines\u2019: 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; \u201cTerrorism from the Sky\u201d: 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<\/span>;<\/span> 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\u2019s Designation of Cuba as a \u201cState Sponsor of Terrorism\u201d; 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 25 mars 2023<\/a>: <\/span>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\u2019s 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\u2019s Mass Surveillance Programs \u2013 Part Two: The CSE Secret Spying Archive; Complaints commission opens investigation into RCMP\u2019s \u2018Indian fighters\u2019; Document reveals Canada\u2019s 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 Guant\u00e1namo 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 11 mars 2023<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span>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 consid\u00e8re pas assez les effets des mesures de r\u00e9duction de menace; Demonizing Detainees: A Case Study in Canadian Media Islamophobia; How the Hassan Diab affair undressed Canada\u2019s extradition law; Cong\u00e9di\u00e9e pour la \u00ab\u00a0s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 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 \u201cwipe out\u201d 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;<\/span> 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 \u2018Extermination\u2019 of UP Political Party; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 25 f\u00e9vrier 2023<\/a>: <\/span>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 N\u00ed Aol\u00e1in 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\u2019s unjust approach to extradition; An Afghan military interpreter made it to Canada \u2014 but his siblings were forced back to Afghanistan; Adnan Khan: The Toronto 18 case still skews our views on \u2018radicalization\u2019 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\u2019t Need F-16s. It Needs Humanitarian Aid; En Iran, un ressortissant irano-allemand condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 mort pour \u00abterrorisme\u00bb; China laid more than 1,400 national security charges since 2018, top prosecutor\u2019s office reveals in a first; Tunisia: President Saied must immediately stop his political \u2018witch hunt\u2019; 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 \u2018handful of cases\u2019; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 11 f\u00e9vrier 2023<\/a>: <\/span>Ottawa appealing ruling that officials must help repatriate 4 men in Syrian camps; New Book: Reasonable Cause to Suspect:\u00a0A 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:\u00a0The ripple effects of invoking draconian laws must not be ignore; Azeezah Kanji –\u00a0Canada 2030: Drone Colony?; Baljit Nagra & Paula Maurutto: Anti-Muslim Surveillance: Canadian Muslims\u2019 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\u00a0protest; Imperial Dominance Disguised as Democratic Deterrence; What Is The Pentagon\u2019s Updated Policy On Killer Robots?; UN counterterrorism expert to finally visit the Guantanamo detention facility for the first time;<\/span> 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’; \u201cAn Intolerable Situation\u201d: 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 \u2018acts of terrorism\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 28 janvier 2023<\/a>: <\/span>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\u2019 privacy could take a serious hit this coming legislative session; As deadly protests continue, Peru\u2019s 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; Erdo\u011fan does not permit workers to strike on grounds of \u2018national security\u2019 & plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 14 janvier 2023<\/a>: <\/span>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:\u00a0<\/span>Troubling revelation of possible government targeting of Muslim Association of Canada requires independent investigation;<\/span> Alex Neve & Leilani Farha: If the CRA is targeting Muslim-led charities, Canadians deserve to know;<\/span> ‘No reason’ Canadians detained in Syria should still be there, lawyer tells court;<\/span> Canada is still preventing charities from bringing aid to\u00a0Afghanistan<\/span>; <\/span>Shree Paradkar: A four-year study has mapped out \u2018The Canadian Islamophobia Industry\u2019;<\/span> Canadian officials ignored their obligation to support activist detained in 2017 over mining dispute in Peru: report<\/span>; <\/span>Pulling Back the Curtain on Canada\u2019s Mass Surveillance Programs \u2013 Part One: A Decade of Secret Spy Hearings;<\/span> RCMP has spent nearly $50M on policing pipeline, logging standoffs in B.C.<\/span>; <\/span>Mendicino willing to talk about changing CSIS’s legal authority after Emergencies Act hearings;<\/span> Le gouvernement Trudeau ach\u00e8te les premiers F-35. A-t-on vraiment besoin de\u00a0ces avions co\u00fbteux?;<\/span> How To Fix Canada\u2019s Proposed Artificial Intelligence Act;<\/span> More than 150 international organizations call on Biden to close Guantanamo on 21st anniversary;<\/span> Turkey exploits Paris attack on Kurds while claiming to be ‘anti-terror’ \u2013 analysis;<\/span> Turkish Medical Association chief convicted on \u2018terror\u2019 charge;<\/span> Nigerian Army killed children in its anti-terror war: Witnesses;<\/span> Night Raids: Victims of\u00a0CIA-Backed Afghan Death Squads Known as \u201cZero Units\u201d Demand Accountability<\/span> +<\/span> New actions and events! <\/span>& plus.<\/p>\n

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News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 10 d\u00e9cembre 2022<\/a>: <\/span>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\u2019t allow Afghan aid work as desperation grows; Christopher Parsons: Don\u2019t 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; \u2018I did not want to be involved\u2019: Police officer quits task force over concerns about RCMP tactics at Fairy Creek; UN Budget vs. Rhetoric: Touting \u201cAgenda for Peace\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 26 novembre 2022<\/a>: <\/span>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 \u2018threat to the security of Canada\u2019 in the Emergency Act must be met; Monia Mazigh: Racial bias and profiling in security intelligence: what we\u2019re 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\u2019s Time to Overhaul the Department of Homeland Security; Senate Committee Finds FBI Response to White Supremacist Violence Woefully Inadequate; Somali Prisoner At Guant\u00e1namo, Approved For Release A Year Ago, Calls On US Court To Act \u2013 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 11 novembre 2022<\/a>: <\/span>Watch: 20 years of fighting for rights in the War on Terror; It\u2019s 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\u2019s Erdo\u011fan Deploys Sweden and Finland\u2019s 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 Guant\u00e1namo; 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\u2019re 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 29 octobre 2022<\/a>: <\/span>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\u2019s 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\u2019s Rights Activist Submits New Canadian Application; Privacy expert Christopher Parsons: Analysis and highlights of the 2021 National Security and Intelligence Review Agency\u2019s Annual Report; Cybersecurity Will Not Thrive in Darkness: A Critical Analysis of Proposed Amendments in Bill C-26 to the Telecommunications Act; Biden\u2019s 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\u2019s Use of Force Interpretations?; Turkish doctor detained for proposing chemical weapons probe; Israel\u2019s Detention of Palestinian Minors: a Horror Show; India\u2019s 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\u2019s Book Censored By The US Government; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 15 octobre 2022<\/a>: <\/span>New parliamentary report demonstrates urgent need to rein in\u00a0facial recognition,\u00a0artificial intelligence\u00a0to protect the\u00a0rights\u00a0of people in\u00a0Canada; 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\u2019t 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\u2019s Ecosystem in the Great White North; Report: Unveiling the Chilly Climate \u2013 The Suppression of Speech on Palestine in Canada; Leading human rights groups challenge Safe Third Country Agreement at Supreme Court of Canada;<\/span> Podcast episode on National Security Law with Yavar Hameed; Erica Ifill: Racism rears its ugly head in police\u2019s untested tech; Marwan Bishara: The flaws and fantasies of the new Biden doctrine; Spy agency ASIO \u2018acquiesced in the use of torture\u2019 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\u2019ve got news for them; Surveillance tech is weaponry; Inside the Chinese government’s growing surveillance state; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 1er octobre 2022<\/a>:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Press release: Civil Society groups highlight concerns with \u2018deeply problematic\u2019 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\u2019ll be taking on this fall; Matthew Behrens: UN Slams Canada\u2019s Failure to Repatriate Citizens Illegally Detained in Syria; Detainees Face Life-Threatening Conditions; CSIS\u2019s role in the Syrian trafficking operation must come to light; \u2018Time is past urgent\u2019: 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\u2019en 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\u2019s 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\u2019s BJP bans Indian Islamic group for \u2018terrorist\u2019 links; Geneva Declaration: international community unites to end spyware abuse; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 17 septembre 2022<\/a>:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>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\u2019s trail of mistakes; UN Accuses Canadian Government of Breach of International Law in the Case of Jack Letts; Will Trudeau\u2019s Liberal government open the door to at-risk Uyghurs?; Taha Ghayyur: Canada\u2019s foreign policy is at odds with Trudeau\u2019s 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\u2019 phone data at massive scale; Maha Hilal: 9\/11 anniversary: When \u2018never forget\u2019 is used to justify the \u2018forever war\u2019; The War on Terror\u2019s 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 \u2013 Syria\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 3 septembre 2022<\/a>:<\/span>\u00a0ICLMG: We need answers and accountability from Prime Minister Trudeau and CSIS on Canada\u2019s role in the Shamima Begum affair<\/span>;<\/span> Over 200 Organizations – including ICLMG – Demand International Community Stand Against Raids and Closures of 7 Palestinian Organizations; CIA unable to corroborate Israel\u2019s \u2018terror\u2019 label for Palestinian rights groups; UN urges Israel to allow humanitarians to continue working in Palestine; Israel\u2019s \u2018Operation Breaking Dawn\u2019 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\u2019t justice: Biden\u2019s assassination of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was illegal. Canada should not have condoned it; We\u2019re 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\u2019s Former PM Imran Khan Are \u201cTruly Grotesque\u201d; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 20 ao\u00fbt 2022<\/a>: <\/span>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\u2019s 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\u2019s former privacy watchdog \u2018surprised\u2019 by RCMP spyware program; Face Recognition Technology for the Protection of Canada\u2019s 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\u2019s 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; \u201cThere Are Good Reasons to Defund the FBI. They Have Nothing to Do with Trump\u201d: Professor Alex Vitale; In U.S. v. Al-Nashiri the Government Is Rewarding Torture and Incentivizing Torturers; Biden\u2019s Assassination of al-Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Was Illegal; Filipino nuns accused of ‘financing terrorism\u2019; 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 5 ao\u00fbt 2022<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>Abdul Nakua: Tackling Islamophobia begins by rebuilding trust with the Muslim community; ICLMG in the media:\u00a0<\/span>Canada Ends Muslim Charity Suspension Amid Bias Review;<\/span> Letter to Public Safety Minister: Don’t conflate human rights work with “violent extremism”; \u2018Terrifying\u2019: Canada\u2019s police going all in on \u2018pre-crime\u2019 intervention; Privacy committee to study RCMP use of spyware tools; Canada said her case was urgent. Four months later, this Afghan women\u2019s activist waits with no visa; U.S. played secret role in Nigeria attack that killed more than 160 civilians; Burkina Faso : l’arm\u00e9e reconnait la mort de civils lors d’un raid a\u00e9rien; 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 \u2013 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\u2019s national security law; Sunak wants to extend the Prevent program to those who \u2018vilify the UK\u2019. That\u2019s wrong \u2013 and he\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 22 juillet 2022<\/a>: <\/span><\/span>Federal suspension lifted, but Muslim charity presses ahead with case in top court; 2-year Uighur Resettlement Plan Must Include Releasing Prisoners of Conscience;<\/span> Dominique Peschard:\u00a0Forces polici\u00e8res et capitalisme de surveillance; Homeland Security records show ‘shocking’ use of phone data, ACLU says; ‘Follow colonial laws or go to jail’:\u00a0Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en people criminalized for standing firm on their own territory; Detained Australian Teenager Dies in Northeast Syria; Turkish Shelling In\u00a0the Kurdistan Region of Iraq\u00a0Kills 9, Injures 23; When Protesting ISIS is a Terror Offense: The Kobani Trial; As Biden shrinks Guantanamo\u2019s 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\u2014Not 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 9 juillet 2022<\/a>: <\/span>What we\u2019ve 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\u00a0the news “London, Ont., family stuck in London, England after airlines refuse to let them board”;<\/span> CSILC: Les dangers de la lutte contre les m\u00e9faits en ligne \u2013 Proposition du gouvernement du Canada; Anti-Taliban law could be tweaked to get more humanitarian aid to Afghans: minister; \u2018Asleep at the wheel\u2019: Canada police\u2019s spyware admission raises alarm; Gidimt\u2019en 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 \u201cLegalized\u201d 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!<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 18 juin 2022<\/a>: <\/span>ICLMG: Senate amendments to electronic device search bill will strengthen privacy, help protect against profiling at the border; <\/span>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 \u201canti-Islamophobia\u201d; Behind the Thin Blue Line: Meet a\u00a0secretive arm of the\u00a0RCMP in B.C.; Liberal backbencher pushing bill to make CSIS more forthcoming in its warrant applications; Ottawa\u2019s 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;<\/span> 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\u2019s discrimination claim; ACLU files lawsuit for more information on DHS\u2019s new domestic violent extremism initiatives; Secret photos of first Guantanamo Bay detainees revealed; <\/span>Right-Wing Judges Say It\u2019s \u201cHarmless\u201d to Label Climate Activist a Terrorist;<\/span> Punished for Exposing War Crimes? U.K. Approves Assange Extradition to U.S., Faces 175 Years in Prison<\/span>; <\/span>Amnesty International: Myanmar’s plans to carry out arbitrary executions must halt immediately;<\/span> World Organization Against Torture:\u00a0<\/span>Turkey weaponizes anti-terror laws to silence human rights defenders’ <\/span><\/span>+ NEW ACTION: LeadNow petition: Protect Hassan Diab from further injustice. Say NO to any future request for Hassan’s extradition! et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 3 juin 2022<\/a>: <\/span>Video: ICLMG testifies at Senate Committee on Bill S-7: Proposed rules for searching cell phones at Canada’s border threatens rights; The \u2018terrorist\u2019 smear: a settler-colonial ploy; <\/span>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\u2019 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\u2019t Win, Suffering We Don\u2019t See;<\/span> Progressives Need to Resist the Domestic \u201cWar on Terror\u201d; Immoral Code: Amnesty International Short Film against Autonomous Killer Drones; The faces from China\u2019s Uyghur detention camps; US Surveillance of Americans Must Stop; The Rise and Fall of America\u2019s Environmentalist Underground; Facebook Anti-Terror Policy Lands Head of Afghan Red Crescent Society on Censorship List; et plus.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 21 mai 2022<\/a>: <\/span>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”; <\/span>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\u2019suwet\u2019en territories; Emails reveal how the RCMP changed its story about arresting journalists in Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en raid; MP accuses RCMP officials of delivering ‘dodgy’ testimony on facial recognition technology; International women call on UN to stop Turkey\u2019s attacks on Kurds; Everything you need to know about the UK\u2019s connection to torture in Xinjiang; Documentary: Austria\u2019s Operation Luxor: Anti-terrorism or Islamophobia?; US House passes domestic terrorism bill in mostly party-line vote; Paul Jay on 9\/11; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 7 mai 2022<\/a>: <\/span>Webinar: “The least fair law in Canada”- Why the\u00a0Extradition Act\u00a0Must Be Reformed; Matthew Behrens: Islamophobia preventing Jack Letts from returning home to Canada;<\/span> 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 \u2018terrorist organisations\u2019; In \u2018grey zone\u2019 of national security, suspects face no charges but can\u2019t leave Canada; Webinar: Under Siege: Islamophobia and the 9\/11 Generation; Rizwaan Sabir: No, Muslims critical of Prevent are not \u2018enabling terrorism\u2019; Justice minister invokes cabinet secrecy around use of Emergencies Act; Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 22 avril 2022<\/a>: <\/span>ICLMG video: Canada must reform its extradition laws now!; Civil Society Calling for Robust Inquiry Into Use of Emergencies Act;<\/span> 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\u2019suwet\u2019en 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 9 avril 2022<\/a>: <\/span>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\u2019s new F-35 fighter jet kill?; U.S. airstrike killed 11 Libyan civilians and allies, human rights groups say; Back from Kabul, Women\u2019s Delegation Urges U.S. & Europe to Unfreeze Afghan Funds Amid Humanitarian Crisis; Annihilation over compromise for Myanmar\u2019s generals; Azeezah Kanji: Save us from \u2018securo-feminism\u2019; Special Report: French mosque closures based on \u2018secretive evidence,\u2019 critics say; Guantanamo Prisoner Finally Returned to Algeria After Being Cleared for Transfer in 2016; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 26 mars 2022<\/a>: <\/span>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\u2019s spy agencies have held back information from Parliament\u2019s watchdogs; Matthew Behrens: Afghanistan\u2019s Women\u2019s 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 \u201cradical rhetoric\u201d; ACLU sues DHS, says Muslim Americans questioned about faith at border; Remembering the victims of the Islamophobic Christchurch massacre; et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 11 mars 2022<\/a>: <\/span>ICLMG: RCMP violates national security disclosure rules, potentially placing thousands at risk; Out of sight, but not out of mind: Laying bare the RCMP\u2019s efforts to evade public transparency; Steven Zhou: Don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 26 f\u00e9vrier 2022<\/a>: <\/span>ICLMG statement on use of Emergencies Act; Canada\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 12 f\u00e9vrier 2022<\/a>: <\/span>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\u2019t Need a Department of Homeland Security; What if the U.S. hadn’t gone to war after 9\/11? et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 29 janvier 2022<\/a>: <\/span>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; O\u00f9 en est le Qu\u00e9bec dans sa lutte contre l’islamophobie? (vid\u00e9o); 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 \u2018Failure,\u2019 Democrats Urge Biden to Do Better; Afghanistan Faces \u201cTsunami of Hunger\u201d as U.S. Sanctions Crash Country\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 15 janvier 2022<\/a>: <\/span>Canadian police expanding surveillance powers via new digital \u201coperations centres\u201d;<\/span> Top Mountie violated her legal obligations by being too slow to respond to complaints, judge rules;<\/span> Coastal GasLink drops charges against journalists arrested on Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en territory;<\/span> The settler colonial origins of the Five Eyes alliance;<\/span> Matthew Behrens: No Room at Canada\u2019s Inn for Afghan Refugees;<\/span> Held without Charge: The Call to Repatriate Canadians Detained in Northeast Syria (video);<\/span> La reconnaissance faciale : La fin de l\u2019anonymat?;<\/span> Civilian Casualty Files Reveal U.S. Hid Thousands of Deaths in Middle East Air War;<\/span> ‘Anti-Democratic and Cowardly’: US Building New Secret Courtroom at Guant\u00e1namo;<\/span> Innocent Until Proven Muslim book talk with Dr. Maha Hilal (video);<\/span> A data \u2018black hole\u2019: Europol ordered to delete vast store of personal data;<\/span> Nearly 8,000 detained in Kazakhstan amid anti-government protests <\/span>+ NEW ACTIONS: The Green Square Campaign; Tell President Biden: Close Guantanamo; Ban Weaponized Drones from the World et plus.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 18 d\u00e9cembre 2021<\/a>: <\/span>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\u2019armes vers l\u2019Arabie saoudite; Les v\u00e9rifications pr\u00e9judiciables de l\u2019ARC; 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\u2019s 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; \u201cNo Food Available\u201d: Afghanistan Faces Catastrophe as Donors Cut Humanitarian Aid to Taliban Gov\u2019t; No U.S. Troops Will Be Punished for Deadly Kabul Strike, Pentagon Chief Decides; Oregon\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 3 d\u00e9cembre 2021<\/a>: <\/span>Statement of Solidarity with the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en 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:\u00a0From 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 Guant\u00e1namo; US lifts Colombia\u2019s FARC \u2018foreign terrorist\u2019 designation; He Declined the FBI\u2019s Offer to Become an Informant. Then His Life Was Ruined & more<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 20 novembre 2021<\/a>: <\/span>The Liberal government must rid the country of systemic Islamophobia; Land defenders arrested on Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en territory; Terrorism laws target racism, but what about racism in the legal\u00a0system?; An Audacious Suggestion for the new Minister of Foreign Affairs: Help Canadians; Canadian stranded in Iraq to be issued emergency passport;<\/span> 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: \u2018If you weaken encryption, people will die\u2019; Editorial Board: Biden administration must declassify CIA torture program & more<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 6 novembre 2021<\/a>: <\/span>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 \u2018designed not to work\u2019?; 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; \u201cStain on the Moral Fiber of America\u201d: Military Jurors Decry Majid Khan\u2019s Torture at\u00a0CIA\u00a0Black Sites; Sorry, Biden: There Is No \u201cNational Security\u201d Solution to the Climate Crisis; Amnesty to close Hong Kong offices over National Security Law & more.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 23 octobre 2021<\/a>: Canada’s <\/span>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 \u2018Extremist Groups\u2019 Are \u2018Pushing White Supremacy\u2019; A Florida Anarchist Will Spend Years in Prison for Online Posts Prompted by Jan. 6 Riot; Bill would allow B.C. citizens\u2019 personal data to be sent out of country; \u2018Really hopeless\u2019: 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 Guant\u00e1namo 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<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 8 octobre 2021<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span>ICLMG: Seven Civil Liberties Priorities for the Next Parliament; CSILC: Pourquoi nous devons abandonner l’antiterrorisme et la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale; ICLMG Submission to Government’s “Online Harms” Consultation; Anti-Racist Groups Concerned Canada\u2019s Proposed \u201cOnline Harms\u201d Legislation Could Do More Harm Than Good; Neve, Aiken and Champ: Canada\u2019s next justice minister must defend Hassan Diab\u2019s 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\u2019s $36m Israeli Drone Contract; Enough is Enough: We took the RCMP Commissioner to Court; Since 9\/11, Islamophobia has been \u2018a constant feature\u2019 in Canada, experts say; U.S. Muslims recall questionable detentions that followed 9\/11 attacks; Abu Zubaydah Was Tortured for Years at\u00a0CIA\u00a0Black 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;<\/span> ICC Prosecutor\u2019s statement on Afghanistan jeopardises his Office\u2019s legitimacy and future; The Most Terrifying Thing About 9\/11 Was America\u2019s Response; The War on Terror Film Festival & more news, actions and events.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 25 septembre 2021<\/a>:<\/span> 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\u2019s Charities Directorate have an Islamophobia problem?; Monia Mazigh: 9\/11 aftermath \u2014 A life destroyed by the ‘War on Terror’; Advocates call on Canada to name special envoy to secure Huseyin Celil\u2019s release from China; \u201cEssentially you have a police state\u201d – 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\u2019s Ruling on Torture; Hong Kong Quietly Widens National Security Law With Subtle Shift; How to Help Afghans in Afghanistan and Canada & more.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 11 septembre 2021<\/a>:<\/span> ICLMG: Five reasons to ditch anti-terrorism and national security; 20 ans depuis les attentats du 11 septembre 2001: Quels impacts sur l’\u00e9tat de droit? (vid\u00e9o avec ICLMG);<\/span> Over Two Decades, U.S.’s Global War on Terror Has Taken Nearly 1 Million Lives and Cost $8 Trillion;<\/span> Empire, Islamophobia and the War on Terror (video);<\/span> The domestic legacy of our global ‘war on terror’;<\/span> Canada\u2019s spy service once again admonished by court over duty of candour;<\/span> Mazigh: We need a public inquiry into Canada’s presence in Afghanistan;<\/span> Lettre ouverte d\u2019\u00c9chec \u00e0 la guerre: Vingt ann\u00e9es d\u2019une guerre destructrice;<\/span> U.S. Winds Down Afghanistan Occupation Like It Began, with Drone Strikes & Civilian Casualties;<\/span> Peace Activist Kathy Kelly on Reparations for Afghanistan & What the U.S. Owes After Decades of War;<\/span> Taliban\u2019s Victory In Afghanistan Mustn\u2019t Prevent Closure Of Guant\u00e1namo \u2013 OpEd;<\/span> \u2018Blacklisting\u2019 terrorist groups: the post-9\/11 strategy that only serves to prolong wars;<\/span> How 9\/11 helped China wage its own false \u2018war on terror\u2019;<\/span> ‘I’m Part of Something That’s Really Evil’ (podcast);<\/span> Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism;<\/span> Why encryption is important: 10 facts to counter the myths and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 27 ao\u00fbt 2021<\/a>:<\/span> ICLMG & Noor Cultural Centre: Islamophobia in Canada; Taxpayers\u2019 ombudsperson investigates CRA targeting of Muslim-led charities;<\/span> Andrew Mitrovica: The Canadian prime minister must put a stop to the repeated victimisation of a Muslim Canadian citizen by French courts;<\/span> Canada set to buy armed drones in 2022-23 that the military says are capable of \u201cpinpoint strikes\u201d;<\/span> Erin O\u2019Toole vows to increase criminal punishment for people who disrupt pipelines and railways;<\/span> Tyler Shipley: Canada hasn\u2019t reckoned with its bloody legacy in Afghanistan;<\/span> The Secrets They Keep: Why Canada Fears Afghan Interpreters;<\/span> Spencer Ackerman: Today\u2019s Crisis in Kabul Is Direct Result of Decades of U.S. War & Destabilization;<\/span> The FBI\u2019s Domestic \u201cWar on Terror\u201d Is an Authoritarian Power Grab;<\/span> The Most High-Profile Al Qaeda Plot Foiled After 9\/11 was an FBI Scam;<\/span> Spyware scandal: UN experts call for moratorium on sale of \u2018life threatening\u2019 surveillance tech;<\/span> We need more protection from government surveillance \u2014 not less;<\/span> Two Hong Kong activists convicted on security law charge;<\/span> France Adopts Laws to Combat Te<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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