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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

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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 Terrorism, but Critics Call Them Overreaching;<\/span> Canada violating international law by selling arms to Saudis: Report et plus.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 23 juillet 2021<\/a>: <\/span>National Security & Islamophobia: ICLMG’s Submission to the National Action Summit on Islamophobia; Muslim charity going to court to fight ‘unfair’ suspension by Canada Revenue Agency, featuring ICLMG\u2019s Tim McSorley; Ottawa tested facial recognition on millions of travellers at Toronto\u2019s Pearson airport in 2016; Matthew Behrens: Enduring Canada’s surveillance regime; It is time to suspend Canada\u2019s extradition treaty with France; Daesh children in Syria face a lifetime in prison; Christopher Parsons: The new security research rules threaten universities\u2019 ability to be open and inclusive; Amnesty International Calls for Moratorium on Private Spyware After Israeli NSO Group Pegasus Revelations; Biden Administration Punts on Due Process Rights for Guant\u00e1namo Detainees; Canada, Ground Your Plans for 88 New Fighter Jets; Faiza Patel: Ending the \u2018National Security\u2019 Excuse for Racial and Religious Profiling; UN calls for end to use of national security laws to silence dissent & more.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 9 juillet 2021<\/a>: <\/span>What we’ve been up to so far in 2021. Please help us protect civil liberties for the rest of the year!; Letter to PM Trudeau: End the CRA’s Prejudiced Audits of Muslim Charities;<\/span> Tim McSorley: The Case for a Ban on Facial Recognition Surveillance in Canada;<\/span> Azeezah Kanji: The coloniality of Canadian Islamophobia \u2013 and anti-Islamophobia;<\/span> Canadian Labour Congress President letter to PM Trudeau: End the injustice against Hassan Diab!;<\/span> Top spy agency tracked Caledonia land dispute as possible threat to national security: secret document;<\/span> Lethal Force Against Pipeline Protests? Documents Reveal Shocking South Dakota Plans for National Guard;<\/span> Confidential national security docs left on human rights lawyer’s Halifax porch;<\/span> Military violated rules by collecting information on Canadians, conducting propaganda during pandemic: report;<\/span> Muslim survivor of 7\/7 London bombings slams government\u2019s counter-terrorism strategy on anniversary et plus.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 19 juin 2021<\/a>: <\/span>ICLMG denounces Islamophobic and hate-based attack in London and expresses deep condolences to the family and Muslim community;<\/span> Azeezah Kanji: We must dismantle the systemically racist and rights-abusive counter-terrorism apparatus in Canada;<\/span> Video on ICLMG’s new report: The CRA’s Prejudiced Audits: Counter-terrorism and the targeting of Muslim charities in Canada;<\/span> ICLMG: Privacy Commissioner Report Slamming RCMP Use of Facial Recognition Technology Demonstrates the Need for an Immediate Ban;<\/span> Christopher Parsons: NSIRA Calls CSE\u2019s Lawfulness Into Question;<\/span> Why is Canada failing when it comes to the laws of war?;<\/span> Hands Off: Appeal Court Decision Strikes Border Agents\u2019 Warrantless Device Searches;<\/span> IJV’s Michelle Weinroth: How France lied about Hassan Diab;<\/span> Carleton student Cihan Erdal freed from Turkish prison, but can’t yet return to Canada;<\/span> Turkey: Stop misusing the law to detain human rights defenders, urges UN expert;<\/span>\u00a0Opening Pandora\u2019s Box: New \u201cThreats\u201d in the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy;<\/span> Algeria Prepares To Prosecute Journalists, Critics As Terrorists;<\/span> Hong Kong film censors get wider \u2018national security\u2019 powers;<\/span> TAKE ACTION: Stop CRA\u2019s Prejudiced Audits + Ban Biometric Surveillance et plus<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 4 juin 2021<\/a>: <\/span>Canada should suspend its extradition treaty with France over the persecution of Hassan Diab;<\/span> We\u2019re taking the RCMP to court;<\/span> Canadian Parliament denounces attacks on Karapatan\u2019s Palabay;<\/span> The bloodied hands of the Canada-Israel drone warfare relationship;<\/span> Israeli forces are attempting to reassert their control over Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem by arresting them;<\/span> The 9\/11 complex: The political economy of counter-terrorism;<\/span> From Xinjiang to Mississippi: Terror Capitalism, Labour and Surveillance;<\/span> Arun Kundnani: Abolish national security;<\/span> Torture Evidence and the Guantanamo Military Commissions;<\/span> Video: One Man’s No-Fly List Nightmare;<\/span> Loi antiterroriste : l’Assembl\u00e9e nationale ent\u00e9rine les mesures et suscite l’\u00e9moi chez l’opposition;<\/span> Mental health tests in the presence of counter-terror units \u2018unethical\u2019, says charity;<\/span> European Court of Human Rights: Bulk communications data interception by UK and Swedish spy agencies violated right to privacy et plus.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 22 mai 2021<\/a>:<\/span> ICLMG: Trudeau must protect Hassan Diab’s rights following French Court’s shocking decision; Our extradition system is broken, and Hassan Diab is paying with his life; Video: Challenging Security Inadmissibility in Canada’s Immigration System; Canadian Civil Society Letter to the Prime Minister: Issue a statement calling for Israel to stop the violence; Canadian military intelligence monitored Black Lives Matter movement, claiming pandemic justified such actions; Clear safeguards needed around technology planned for border checkpoints; Civil liberties group suing RCMP commissioner over delays in responding to civilian complaints; UN dubs PhD student’s petition for release ‘urgent,’ seeks Turkey’s defense; Ken Rubin: A Little-Known Trans-Canada Digital Identity Regime in the Works; In Whose Interest?; Daphne Eviatar, Amnesty International: Closing of Guant\u00e1namo Must be a Priority for President Biden; U.S. government removed Ahmad Chebli from the No-Fly List ten days after the ACLU filed a lawsuit; Pentagon list of extremism experts includes anti-Muslim and conservative Christian groups et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 7 mai 2021<\/a>: <\/span>ICLMG: Intelligence Commissioner Report 2020: The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Canadian Datasets and Other Observations + “RCMP Secret Facial Recognition Tool Looked for Matches with 700,000 \u2018Terrorists\u2019”; Mazigh: Canada must repatriate women and children from prison camps; Should Canada spend $77 billion on new fighter jets?; Canada plans to spend $5 billion on military drones armed with missiles and laser-guided bombs; Canada urged to cut anti-terror aid to Philippines amid ‘epidemic of human rights violations’; Fifteen years in a Chinese prison: Burlington woman laments husband’s fate; Almost everything Biden said about ending the Afghanistan War was a lie; Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah to file complaint with UN agency; The National Security State Doesn\u2019t Protect Us. Let\u2019s Redefine Security for All & plus.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 23 avril 2021<\/a>: <\/span>Event: Challenging Security Inadmissibility in Canada’s Immigration System; ICLMG’s National Coordinator Tim McSorley on state surveillance targets; Concerns around upcoming legislation regulating online content; Hassan Diab\u2019s French Lawyers Appeal to the Court of Cassation; Canada\u2019s commitment to media freedom must be matched by action; Lawsuit around the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians; Excellent ACLU Podcast: New Domestic Terrorism Laws Won\u2019t End White Supremacy; Joe Biden Isn\u2019t Ending the War in Afghanistan; Cut the Defense Budget: Rep. Khanna on Bloated Pentagon Spending, Ending War in Yemen, UAE Arms Deal; Two Dozen Senators Tell Biden It Is ‘Past Time’ to Finally Close Guant\u00e1namo; USA: \u201cRewards for Justice\u201d program violates human rights, say UN experts; French air strike killed 19 civilians at Mali wedding party, U.N. says; Mapuche organizations call on international agencies to intervene on behalf of Chile\u2019s Indigenous population; China hands death sentences to Uyghur former officials; Turkey sentences Syriac monk on terrorism charges for giving bread to visitors & plus.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 10 avril 2021<\/a>: <\/span>\u2018Random\u2019 tax audits of Muslim charities provide cover for biased terrorism suspicions, report finds; Activist’s deportation case adds to increased calls for oversight of border services; <\/span>Carleton PhD student arrested in Turkey denied bail;<\/span> Letter to Justin Trudeau Regarding Bloody Sunday in the Philippines;<\/span> AUMFs, Drones, and Guant\u00e1namo: Three ways to begin to end the war on terror;<\/span> The Pitfalls of a National Security Approach to Climate;<\/span> Facial recognition tech is supporting mass surveillance. It’s time for a ban, say privacy campaigners;<\/span> Looking tough, but hampering rights: civil society organisations say no to online Terrorism Regulation;<\/span> Bloody Crackdown in Burma Since Feb. 1 Military Coup Kills 500+ Amid Resistance from Youth, Women & plus.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 27 mars 2021<\/a>: <\/span>Contest: Enter for a chance to win the Big Data Surveillance book!; <\/span>ICLMG’s comments on the news that “RCMP breached policy on collection of online information: audit”; <\/span>Free City Radio podcast: Tim McSorley on opposing anti-terror laws in Canada;<\/span> Hameed: Why Canada must stand clearly behind Hassan Diab;<\/span> Ottawa repatriates child from Syria but leaves mother behind;<\/span> Cihan Erdal’s letter from jail + In Turkey, two Facebook posts are enough to land you in jail;<\/span> Monia Mazigh: Guantanamo prisoner’s story shows legacy of stigmatization from war on terror;<\/span> Huseyin Celil is the forgotten Canadian detained in China, says his lawyer;<\/span> Chinese cyber espionage operation targeted Canadian Uyghurs, says Facebook;<\/span> Tech-enabled ‘terror capitalism’ is spreading worldwide. The surveillance regimes must be stopped;<\/span> Suspects could be held for up to 2 years under Sri Lanka’s anti-terror laws;<\/span> Lebanon: Torture of Syrian refugees arbitrarily detained on counter-terror charges;<\/span> Right to protest: UK’s new policing bill is a threat to democracy & plus.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 13 mars 2021<\/a>: <\/span>Trudeau signals support for Hassan Diab as advocates demand intervention with France – featuring ICLMG; Canada\u2019s spy warrant shortcomings stretch back at least 9 years, audit shows – featuring ICLMG; Amira Elghawaby: Renewed spotlight on former Guantanamo detainee raises new questions about Canada\u2019s security agencies; Cyber spies fall short on protecting Canadians’ privacy after breaches, says new report; MSF denounces unsafe environment in Al-Hol camp in wake of staff killing; Philippines: Killings Highlight Need for International Action; UN urged to take action against France over ‘entrenching Islamophobia’; Dozens of countries urge Egypt to end crackdown on critics; Lebanon: Authorities step up repression through use of terrorism charges against protesters; 21 Hong Kong activists to remain in custody after bail requests denied, withdrawn; The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption and Tell Congress About All the Encrypted Phones It\u2019s Already Hacking Into et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 26 f\u00e9vrier 2021<\/a>: <\/span>Open letter to federal leaders: Do not expand anti-terrorism laws in the name of anti-racism; Mira Sucharov & Bernie Farber: Extraditing Hassan Diab a second time would be a travesty; Ottawa has spent $9.3-million fighting legal claims over Canadian\u2019s alleged torture in Sudan; UN, rights watchdogs urge Canada to save its ‘arbitrarily detained’ children in Syria; Justin Trudeau buys drones \u201ctested\u201d on Palestinians; \u2018Localized harassment\u2019: RCMP patrol Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en territory despite UN calls for withdrawal; Matthew Behrens: The hypocrisy of Canada’s genocide declarations; CAUT calls for review of security agency activities on campus; What Clearview AI Did Was Illegal, But Don’t Play Down The RCMP’s Role In It Guantanamo Bay review must ensure closure and appropriate remedies for those tortured and detained, say UN experts et plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 12 f\u00e9vrier 2021<\/a>:<\/span> Connecting Abolitionist Struggles: Settler Colonialism, Mass Incarceration, and the \u2018War on Terror\u2019 panel video; <\/span>ICLMG: Expanding and entrenching problematic anti-terrorism laws is the wrong approach in the urgent fight against white supremacist and hate-based violence;<\/span> Organizations support Hassan Diab following unjust French court of appeal decision;<\/span> New “Islamophobia Is” website: Short video series, resource list and educators’ guide; <\/span>Facial Recognition Software Has Been Used by 48 Agencies in Canada;<\/span> Secretive CSIS technology that could reveal ‘lifestyle choices’ needs a warrant, says court;<\/span> Mass Rapes. Sweeping Surveillance. Forced Labor. Exposing China\u2019s Crackdown on Uyghur Muslims;<\/span> Syria: UN experts urge 57 States to repatriate women and children from squalid camps;<\/span> Mohamedou Ould Slahi accuse le SCRS et la GRC d’avoir jou\u00e9 un r\u00f4le dans sa d\u00e9tention \u00e0 Guantanamo;<\/span> ‘We Will Hold Him Accountable Until He Does’: 110+ Groups Demand Biden Close Gitmo Without Delay;<\/span> Turkey\u2019s Erdogan Calls Student Protesters Terrorists, Intensifying Anti-LGBT Rhetoric;<\/span> Muslim boy, 4, was referred to Prevent over game of Fortnite & more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 29 janvier 2021<\/a>:<\/span>\u00a0ICLMG: Prime Minister Trudeau must intervene after outrageous French ruling in Hassan Diab case; The federal government declares January 29th National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action Against Islamophobia;<\/span> ICLMG remembers the victims of the January 29, 2017 Quebec City Mosque Shooting + Resources to fight Islamophobia!;<\/span> Canada urged to formally label China\u2019s Uyghur persecution as genocide;<\/span> CJPME outraged by racist smear against Muslim and Arab-Canadian Minister;<\/span> ICLMG: Violent hate groups must be held to account \u2014 using rights-violating anti-terrorism laws isn\u2019t the way to do it;<\/span> 135 Civil Rights Groups Oppose New Domestic Terrorism Statutes, Say Tackle Far-Right Violence With Existing Laws;<\/span> Did the RCMP attend a university book launch to stop a crime?;<\/span> Some snooping from Canadian spies needs better justification: commissioner;<\/span> Biden and Congress must clost Guantanamo Bay detention center, not bring new charges in unlawful military commissions;<\/span> CIA Whistleblower: Biden Intel Pick Avril Haines Approved Obama Drone Strike Kill List, Hid Torture;<\/span> More than 1,000 Extinction Rebellion activists taken to court<\/span>+ Upcoming event: Connecting Abolitionist Struggles on Feb 6 & more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 15 janvier 2021<\/a>: <\/span>Harsha Walia on why approaching white supremacist organizations through anti-terrorist state designations is a terrible idea; Alex Neve: Canada\u2019s new measures around China\u2019s violations against Uyghurs aren\u2019t really all that new; Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain Alhathloul sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison; Privacy Commissioner Launches Investigation of RCMP Internet Unit; Civil Liberties Group and Advocates Condemn RCMP Spying; Cite Unconstitutional Chilling Effect across Canada; Haldimand police board walks back \u2018terrorist\u2019 talk in Caledonia standoff; 9 Indigenous Leaders Killed by Philippine Police in \u2018Massacre\u2019; Europe Now Has Its Own ‘Guantanamo Bay’; Close \u2018disgraceful\u2019 Guant\u00e1namo camp \u2013 UN experts urge incoming US administration & more.<\/p>\n

La Revue de l’actualit\u00e9 reviendra en janvier 2021.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 11 d\u00e9cembre 2020<\/a>: <\/span>Send Holiday Cards for Moe\u2019s Freedom: Stop Deportation to Torture; Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence – featuring a chapter by ICLMG!; ICLMG:\u00a0A case study by the Solidarity Action Network; The RCMP\u2019s X-Men Fixation Is More Sinister than Comic; Watchdog calls out RCMP for exploring new genetic investigative techniques without privacy disclosures; Canadian border agent under investigation after passport for immigration detainee deemed fraudulent; Canadian Police Are Quietly Building a System to Intercept Private Messages; Canada must respond to China’s harrowing genocide; Report condemns UK over British women and children held in Syria; Supreme Court says Muslims placed on no-fly list can sue FBI agents for damages; France: When a Temporary State of Emergency becomes Permanent ou France: Quand un \u00e9tat d\u2019urgence temporaire devient permanent; UN Rights Rapporteur: Govts Using \u2018Anti-Terror\u2019 Laws to Target Critics; Running in Circles: Uncovering the Clients of Cyberespionage Firm Circles; U.S. Used Patriot Act to Gather Logs of Website Visitors & more.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 27 novembre 2020<\/a>: <\/span>New ICLMG Video & Action on Facial Recognition; \u2018You Have Zero Privacy\u2019 Says an Internal RCMP Doc on Web Spying; CBSA oversight & Ebrahim Toure; How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps; UN says 50 face possible execution in Iraq after unfair trials; Pakistan: 1,000 residents booked under Anti-Terrorism Act; A Path for Renewing Guantanamo Closure; Kill lists: Barack Obama\u2019s blind spot; Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul sent to terrorism court; Islamophobia in France Prompts Baseless Arrests, Viral Video Shows & plus.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 13 novembre 2020<\/a>: <\/span>ICLMG: Time to end Canada’s No Fly List once and for all; RCMP Commissioner Sued for Preventing Release of Watchdog Report into Spying; RCMP breached anti-fracking protesters\u2019 rights; Federal guidance for border agency surveillance and sources drafted but never issued; Tamir Israel: Facial recognition is transforming our borders, and we are not prepared; Canada & the Arms Trade: Fuelling war in Yemen & beyond; Brainwashed: The echoes of MK-ULTRA; More than 600 children of European militants detained in northeastern Syria: study; Amira Elghawaby: France is undermining civil liberties in the name of fighting terrorism and Canada should say so; 8 Hong Kong Opposition Politicians Arrested as National Security Law Crackdown Continues & more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 30 octobre 2020<\/a>: <\/span>Home Grown Racism & Indefinite Detention video featuring ICLMG; Govt appeals ruling that CSIS lied to court; ICLMG’s Tim McSorley on “Trudeau government pressed to shield secret operational information in court”; Policing Protest: A Double Standard; #FreeCihanErdal: Carleton University student arrested in Turkey: Turkish state repression against political opposition continues; Families demand repatriation of all foreign nationals from Syrian camps; Alberta Court of Appeal rules that searches of electronic devices at the border are unconstitutional; The Police Can Probably Break Into Your Phone; The Enemies Briefcase: Secret Powers and the Presidency; The Necessity of Enforcing Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in the Context of Counterterrorism & more.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 16 octobre 2020<\/a>: <\/span>ICLMG on news that “CSIS sees warrant process as ‘burdensome’ and a ‘necessary evil’: federal review”; CSIS withholds information on Wet’suwet’en demonstrations citing national security threat exemption; Don\u2019t Let Orphan\u2019s Canadian Homecoming Be an Exception; \u2018Caliphate\u2019 podcast and its fallout reveal the extent of\u00a0Islamophobia; ‘It breaks my heart’: Uighurs wrongfully held at Guant\u00e1namo plead to be with families; At UN: 39 Countries Condemn China’s Abuses of Uighurs\u202f; Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian\u00a0Mining; Free CUPE member Cihan Erdal; Canadian military spent more than $1 million on controversial propaganda training linked to Cambridge Analytica parent firm; Report Calls for a Reset as Facial Recognition Transforms Border Crossings Around the World; The Global Encryption Coalition Reject Time-Worn Argument for Encryption Backdoors; Reaction to the UN High Commissioner report on terrorism and human rights & more.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 2 octobre 2020<\/a>: <\/span>ICLMG on RCMP extended online mass surveillance; ICLMG on Ontario police calling 1492 Land Back Lane ‘terrorists’; ICLMG on Bill Blair & human rights; Trudeau: Suspend arms transfer to Saudi Arabia; Canada has a war crime problem; Canada Is Buying A Fleet Of Armed Drones. We Should All Be Worried; CAUT decries arrest of Carleton University student in Turkey; The Man Who Cried ISIS?; Biden\u2019s Plan to Roll Back Discriminatory Counterterrorism Policies; UK Seeks to Stop Justice for War Crimes; China’s still building detention camps in Xinjiang \u2014 and they’re getting even bigger; Take action: CSIS isn\u2019t above the law + #FreeCihanErdal + Reject Dr. Carvin’s Offensive Actions and Promote Anti-Racism; Event: Predict & Surveil: Racism in Policing & Surveillance Tech & more.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 18 septembre 2020<\/a>: <\/span><\/span><\/span>ICLMG statement: 19 years after 9\/11; US Wars Displaced 37 Million People Around the World; Canada\u2019s role in drone wars; What a Few Cakes Say About US Drone Program; UN: Canada is fuelling war in Yemen with arms sales; Police arrest journalist, researcher in connection with Caledonia land reclamation; Repatriating ISIS Family Members: A North Macedonia Model?; Border Patrol Has Used Facial Recognition to Scan More Than 16 Million Fliers \u2014 and Caught Just 7 Imposters; Whistleblower says top DHS officials distorted intel to match Trump statements, lied to Congress; Extinction Rebellion ‘criminals’ threaten UK way of life, says Priti Patel; The uncontrollable beast of UK anti-terror legislation; Turkey – Human rights lawyer Ebru Timtik dies after 238 days on hunger strike; Revealed: The CIA and MI6\u2019s secret war in Kenya & more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 4 septembre 2020<\/a>: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>ICLMG: New revelations of CSIS misleading courts shows need for concrete action & accountability; CSIS used intel gathered illegally, withheld evidence favourable to accused Ottawa ISIS recruiter; ICLMG’s COVID Alert App Privacy Analysis Update; ICLMG’s Tim McSorley on Bill C-3 and Parliament prorogation on Unpublished TV; Wrongful Extradition: Reforming the Committal Phase of Canada’s Extradition Law; Bringing Abolition to National Security; Civil Liberties and Indigenous Rights Groups Call on CRCC to Immediately Take Conduct of Investigation into Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Land Defender\u2019s Police Complaint; To Surveil and Predict: A Human Rights Analysis of Algorithmic Policing in Canada; Court rules NSA phone snooping illegal \u2014 after 7-year delay; Our Post-Privacy World: Total information awareness may make us feel safe, but will we regret living in a surveillance state?; US Sanctions International Criminal Court Prosecutor; Appeals court rules due process rights don’t apply to Guantanamo detainees; Counterterrorism Assistance to Chad for the Sahel: The Price the People Pay & more.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 22 ao\u00fbt 2020<\/a>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> ICLMG’s Analysis of the COVID Alert App; ICLMG on the prorogation of Parliament, Bill C-3 and independent review for CBSA; Eight children die in Al Hol camp, northeastern Syria in less than a week; Monia Mazigh: It’s time to bring little Amira back to Canada; Her husband was cleared of wrongdoing at Guantanamo Bay. Now, as she fights to bring him to Canada, her health is faltering; Matthew Behrens: Federal Court furious with CSIS illegality and lies; Watchdog reported on RCMP surveillance of Indigenous-led action in 2017. Mounties never responded; $16.5M settlement reached in class action lawsuit over mass arrests at 2010 G20 summit; \u201cHead-On Into Peril\u201d: Connecting 9\/11 and Law Enforcement Abuses in Portland; Two More Philippine Activists Murdered; The UN Security Council Is About to Dangerously Undermine Fair Trial Guarantees; Counter-terrorism and the Arts: How counter-terrorism policies restrict the right to freedom of expression + 2 new calls to action: Handwrite 4 Harkat’s Human Rights: Send Stop-Torture Letter Mail; Reunite Ayub, Khalil, and Salahidin with their families & more.<\/p>\n

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News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 17 juillet 2020<\/a>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> Open letter: Canadian government must ban use of facial recognition by federal law enforcement, intelligence agencies; RCMP at centre of facial recognition lawsuit; Questions from the Just Governance Group, Answers by Tim McSorley; Stop Mohamed Harkat’s deportation to torture!; NUPGE, ICLMG’s member organization, speaks out against security certificates; Judge calls for review after CSIS fails to flag info likely obtained illegally; Family of Canadian child stuck in Syria taking government to court; Fareed Khan: White privilege on display in RCMP handling of Rideau Hall security breach; Webinar \u2013 The Tragic Injustice of a Canadian Minor with Mental Illness: Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy; Under Cover of COVID at the UN: Why Counterterrorism Is Not the Answer to a Pandemic; A fourth pillar for the United Nations? The rise of counter-terrorism; Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves; Turkey: Court deals crushing blow for human rights and for justice as four activists convicted; On Hejaaz Hizbullah: The latest victim of Sri Lanka\u2019s draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act; Russian Journalist Sentenced on Bogus Terrorism Charges; UN: Armed drones: Special Rapporteur examines the dawning of the “second drone age”; New US Bill Looks to One-Up Previous Anti-Encryption Law by Requiring Backdoors in Nearly Every Electronic Device; Secret Federal Police Deployed by Trump Snatch Protesters Off Portland Streets; UK may have been complicit in torture of 15 more people, court hearing reveals & more.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 3 juillet 2020<\/a>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> Canada\u2019s Slow-Drip Torture of Ottawa Refugee Mohamed Harkat; Great news! Yasser Albaz Released and Reunited With His Family In Canada; Groups\u2019 joint statement: Too early to launch contact tracing apps; Canada is flouting its international human rights obligations toward Canadians who are arbitrarily detained in northeast Syria: Report; Police Forces in Canada Are Quietly Adopting Facial Recognition Tech; Group calls on Canada to intervene as Philippines pushes ahead with draconian anti-terror law in the wake of damning UN human rights report; Defunding the Police Must Include Ending the Surveillance of Muslims; Fix Canada’s unjust extradition law; ‘Forgotten in a dark, cruel place’: The two Michaels are not the only Canadians held as political prisoners by China; ‘Hong Kong people will fight on,’ councillor says after national security law arrests; Louisiana Activists Face 15 Years for \u201cTerrorizing\u201d Oil Lobbyist with Box of Plastic Pollution; Could Donald Trump claim a national security threat to shut down the internet?; FBI expands ability to collect cellphone location data, monitor social media, recent contracts show; Russia Jails 2 Anti-Fascists, Ending Terror Case Plagued by Torture Claims; India: UAPA: When laws turn oppressive | Opinion & more.<\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 19 juin 2020<\/a>: ICLMG: PM must take decisive action to bring Yasser Albaz home; Canada must work to bring citizens trapped in Syria home, even ISIL suspects; – Canada doubles weapons sales to Saudi Arabia despite moratorium; Canada, U.S. attorneys general discussed law to speed up police access to data across borders; Voluntary nationwide contact tracing app coming soon, says Trudeau; Canada’s border agency shouldn’t be using pandemic to impose surveillance on undocumented immigrants; Trudeau government must stand up against Trump’s escalating attacks on International Criminal Court; Anti-Terror Raids Killing Civilians in West Africa, Amnesty Says; Trump and Duterte Show Why UN Must Reassess Embrace of Counterterrorism; Inter-American Commission On Human Rights Issues Historic Decision On Former Guantanamo Detainee\u2019s Case; U.S. police brutality and military aggression: From Black America to the Muslim world; After Barr ordered FBI to “identify criminal organizers,” activists were intimidated at home and at work; China: National security law must be scrapped to save Hong Kong\u2019s freedoms; June 20 in Ottawa: March for JusticeForAbdirahman – Calls to Action for Black Lives; New actions: Defund the police + Philippines: Junk the terror bill and uphold human rights! + China: Free Canadian Huseyin Celil + Release Yasser Albaz from arbitrary detention in Egypt and more.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest – Revue de l’actualit\u00e9, 6 juin 2020<\/a>: More Than 70 Children Killed in Just 10 Airstrikes In Afghanistan, Report Finds; Ethiopia: Security forces ‘must face justice for horrific human rights violations’ – New Report; Huseyin Celil: The Forgotten Canadian in China | Alex Neve; Opinion: Terrorism laws have long been used against brown and black men. When will they be used to protect them?; Charging incels with terrorism won’t protect sex workers; Invoking \u201cTerrorism\u201d Against Police Protestors; Public doesn’t want encryption backdoors: government doc; A Deep Dive into Canada\u2019s Overhaul of Its Foreign Intelligence and Cybersecurity Laws; On Contact-Tracing Apps: After COVID-19, Will We Live in a Big Brother World?; Canadian government must work urgently within international community to head-off imposition of China\u2019s national security law in Hong Kong; Refugee who helped hide Edward Snowden in Hong Kong struggles to build new life in Canada; #JunkTerrorBill<\/u><\/a>: Sign this petition to help uphold human rights; European Parliament slams Modi govt for silencing activists & portraying protesters as terrorists, and more.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, May 23, 2020<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>ICLMG video: Protect our rights in the fight against COVID-19; Tra\u00e7age num\u00e9rique: 1700+ personnes et orgs exigent un d\u00e9bat public; ICLMG on \u201cCSIS says proposed privacy reforms could hinder spy operations\u201d; CBSA officers investigated for hundreds of misconduct complaints + BCCLA reacts; Canada urged to repatriate orphaned five-year-old girl held in Syrian camp; If Only the US Had That $6.4 Trillion It Wasted on Iraq and Afghanistan Wars to Fight Covid-19 Pandemic; The Senate voted to let the government keep surveilling your online life without a warrant; Unconvicted terrorism suspects face indefinite controls under UK bill; Australia doesn\u2019t need more anti-terror laws that aren\u2019t necessary \u2013 or even used; U.S. Senate approves Uyghur human rights bill; Egypt: Court arbitrarily extends the pre-trial detention of over 1,600 defendants; Breach of Clearview AI Source Code Renews Concerns About Law Enforcement Facial Recognition Programs & more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, May 8, 2020<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Pandemics & Civil Liberties: Panel with ICLMG; RCMP to boost social media mining; The Perils of Hyping Pandemic as a National Security Issue; US-Backed Forces Killed More Children Than Taliban & ISIS in 2020; Legal Observer: Guantanamo 9\/11 Trial Is A Failure; No, the Post-9\/11 Era Is Not Over; The FBI Violates FISA\u2026 Again; New report: The legal response of Western democracies to online terrorism and extremism and its impact on the right to privacy and freedom of expression; Use of Skype, Tango, TikTok, WhatsApp can be considered terrorist activity in Turkey; Hong Kong urged to review terrorism and sedition legislation after United Nations experts say they can be used against lawful protests; Amid Its Covid-19 Crisis, China Was Still Hacking Uighurs\u2019 iPhones & more<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, April 24, 2020<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Digital Surveillance & COVID-19 in Canada: 7 Principles to Protect Our Rights; FOI Documents Confirm RCMP Falsely Denied Using Facial Recognition Software; Canada calls for global ceasefire, while arming Saudi Arabia in their military campaign against Yemen; Burkina Faso: Security Forces Allegedly Execute 31 Detainees; U.S. Airstrikes Hit All-Time High as Coronavirus Spreads in Somalia; Opinion: Why COVID-19 Spitters Shouldn\u2019t Be Prosecuted as Federal Terrorists; Attorney General Barr Refuses to Release 9\/11 Documents to Victims\u2019 Families; The colleague, the girl, the police: Student framed and imprisoned over terror offences tells whole story for the first time; UK Home Office confirms environmentalists referred to anti-terror programme Prevent; UK Bill a License for Military Crimes?; Pakistan Removes Thousands of Names From Terrorist Watch List; Pakistani Journalist Freed, But Anti-Terror Laws Still Threaten Media; Ethiopian police hold journalist Yayesew Shimelis pending terrorism investigation & more.<\/p>\n

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News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, April 10, 2020<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u2018The Charter still applies\u2019: Canadians urged to monitor civil liberties during pandemic; COVID-19: Civil liberties group warns of \u2018unfair and arbitrary\u2019 law enforcement as hefty fines across Canada pile up; Communiqu\u00e9 : G\u00e9olocalisation cellulaire des personnes \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e8re du COVID-19; After 9\/11, we gave up privacy for security. Will we make the same trade-off after Covid-19?; Don\u2019t Violate Human Rights While Responding to COVID-19, Say 33 NGOs; Coronavirus: Beware the power grab; How the coronavirus pandemic is making strongmen stronger, from Hungary to Serbia to the Philippines; 100+ organisations tell governments: don\u2019t use the coronavirus pandemic as cover for expanding digital surveillance; Privacy and Data Protection in the Fight Against COVID-19; Carol Rosenberg: The Growing Culture of Secrecy at Guant\u00e1namo Bay; FBI Opened Terrorism Investigations Into Nonviolent Palestinian Solidarity Group, Documents Reveal; Watchdog finds new problems with FBI wiretap applications; Australia: Is counterterrorism policy out of step with reality? & more<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, April 4, 2020<\/a>: Featuring ICLMG\u2019s Tim McSorley: Canada\u2019s spy service moves quietly ahead with data-crunching plans: documents; ICLMG: Canada must reopen its border to refugee claimants coming from the US now; Appel \u00e0 la retenue en temps de crise pour prot\u00e9ger les libert\u00e9s civiles; We can\u2019t police our way out of a pandemic; For Autocrats, and Others, Coronavirus Is a Chance to Grab Even More Power; \u2018Shoot them dead\u2019: Duterte warns against violating lockdown; Governments Haven\u2019t Shown Location Surveillance Would Help Contain COVID-19; Guantanamo Prisoners Cleared For Release Must Be Freed Amid Pandemic; Prosecuting Purposeful Coronavirus Exposure as Terrorism; \u2018Zero accountability\u2019: US accused of failure to report civilian deaths in Africa; Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Action: Will 2020 Be a Turning Point for International Humanitarian Law at the United Nations?; Myanmar editor faces terror charges over interview with AA; Non-violent protesters are not terrorists and it\u2019s time the police accepted that & more.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, March 27, 2020<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span>COVID-19: ICLMG on Possibility of Phone Tracking; We can\u2019t let COVID lead to 9\/11-style erosion of civil liberties; COVID-19 Threatens More Than Your Health \u2013 Civil Liberties Are About to Be Slashed; DOJ Considering COVID-19 Terror Charges; ACLU: We don\u2019t need a national security approach; \u2018Do F-35s Fight Pandemics?\u2019 Amid Covid-19 Outbreak, Lawmakers Pushing For Even More Useless Pentagon Spending; Coronavirus emergency laws will be here long after Covid-19 \u2013 and in the hands of the our least trustworthy government ever; UN chief urges immediate global cease-fire to fight COVID-19; Retired Australian baker loses appeal in Vietnam on controversial \u2018financing terrorism\u2019 charges & more.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, March 20, 2020<\/a>: UN: States should not abuse COVID-19 measures to suppress rights; Release order bars woman from voicing support for Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en online; Let\u2019s face the facts: To ensure our digital rights, we must hit pause on facial-recognition technology; Finding Amira: Canadian meets orphaned niece in Syria but forced to leave her behind; Casualties of \u2018war on terror\u2019 in Iraq: life, security and liberty; Counter-terrorism programmes are violating human rights, UN expert says; What Happened to FISA Reform?; Canada Has a Dismal Record of Locking Up Migrants; Philippine: Proposed new antiterror law a threat to freedoms, says the National Union of Peoples\u2019 Lawyers & more.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, March 14, 2020<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span>BC Solicitor General Lied about Authorizing RCMP Deployments; RCMP Linked to Company Behind Violent Greta Thunberg Sticker; Police got a racism problem; Despite Denials, RCMP Used Facial Recognition for 18 Years; The U.S. Government Has a Secret Plan to Track Everyone\u2019s Faces at Airports. ACLU is Suing; BCCLA Opposes Alberta\u2019s \u201cAnti-Protestor\u201d Bill 1, Critical Infrastructure Defence Act; Canadian military says its intelligence operations aren\u2019t bound by privacy law; Canada: Don\u2019t Sabotage the ICC\u2019s Israeli War Crimes Investigation; Violent extremism: Prevention programmes should not violate human rights \u2013 UN expert; Chelsea Manning Ordered Free From Prison \u2014 but Will Still Have to Pay Massive Fines; United Nations: More Than 20,000 Migrants Have Died Crossing Mediterranean Sea Since 2014; Freedom in the World 2020: A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy; and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

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News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, March 6, 2020<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span>ICLMG on what is considered terrorism; Uighurs did forced labour for many companies, including Bombardier; OPP gave identities of Tyendinaga Mohawks to CN Rail; RCMP member posted about machine-gunning protesters; Alberta\u2019s anti-protestor bill suppresses democracy and violates treaties, say critics; RCMP denied using facial recognition technology \u2013 then said it had been using it for months; Liberals should halt police and private use of Clearview AI, NDP says; US threatens to pull big tech\u2019s immunities if child abuse isn\u2019t curbed, experts decry the attack on encryption; \u2018We\u2019re called terrorists:\u2019 HWDSB anti-bullying session hears from Muslim community; The Torture Memos: Canadians tell government they\u2019re being abused in foreign prisons; CJPME Disagrees with Trudeau Letter Discouraging ICC Prosecution of Israel; Senior ICC judges authorise Afghanistan war crimes inquiry; Through apps, not warrants, \u2018Locate X\u2019 allows federal law enforcement to track phones; Iran: At least 23 children killed by security forces in November protests \u2013 new evidence; Syria: Moscow summit must prioritize ending renewed attacks on civilians in Idlib & more.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, February 28, 2020<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span>Open letter: Amnesty International visits Tyendinaga, urges Trudeau to act on reconciliation; Settler governments are breaking international law, not Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en hereditary chiefs, say 200 lawyers, legal scholars; RCMP Pensions Are Invested in Controversial Gas Pipeline Owner; Muskrat Falls protestors free of criminal charges; 350 Canada\u2019s Emma Jackson on Jason Kenney\u2019s new Bill 1 against blockades; Facial recognition app Clearview AI has been used far more widely in Canada than previously known; Commissioners launch joint investigation into Clearview AI amid growing concerns over use of facial recognition technology; The Star Editorial Board: We need a stop to \u2018facial fingerprinting\u2019 by police; Carnival Cruises, Delta, and 70 Countries Use a Facial Recognition Company You\u2019ve Never Heard Of; Privacy commissioner says RCMP ignored his investigators in complaint cases; N.S.A. Phone Program Cost $100 Million, but Produced Only Two Unique Leads; Environment and animal rights activists being referred to Prevent programme; Revealed: how teachers could unwittingly trigger counter-terror inquiries; Russian Orthodox Church Steps Up Surveillance Under Government Anti-Terrorism Orders; Egypt: Eight men put to death in mass execution & more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, February 21, 2020<\/a>: Complaints commission told RCMP broad exclusion zones \u2018impermissible\u2019 a year ago; Mohammed: Consular help is woefully uneven for Canadians in distress abroad; Ottawa Police Service tested facial recognition software, but doesn\u2019t use it; Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario Statement on Toronto Police Service Use of Clearview AI Technology; Leaked Reports Show EU Police Are Planning a Pan-European Network of Facial Recognition Databases; Former US drone operator recalls dropping a missile on Afghanistan children and says military is \u2018worse than the Nazis\u2019; Paid by the Pipeline: A Canadian Energy Company Bought an Oregon Sheriff\u2019s Unit; \u201cThey Have Not Relented\u201d: U.S. Maintains Support for Yemen War as Saudi Airstrike Kills 31 Civilians; Saudi Arabia: Specialized Criminal Court a political tool to muzzle critical voices; NYPD subpoenaed journalist\u2019s Twitter data, citing anti-terrorism law; Father and brother of British volunteer, 27, fighting with the Kurdish-led YPG against ISIS in Syria appear in court on terror charges for \u2018sending him \u00a3150\u2019 & more.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, February 14, 2020<\/a>: ICLMG condemns repression, criminalization of Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en land defenders, supporters & journalists; Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Camps Reoccupied, Heavy RCMP Presence is Ongoing \u2013 Press release from the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en territories; Liberals \u2018have to do more\u2019 to free my husband after 14 years in prison, says wife of jailed Huseyin Celil; \u2018My freedom and my life were stolen from me,\u2019 says Diab, suing over extradition; \u2018You can\u2019t live lightheartedly,\u2019 Omar Khadr tells child soldiers panel in rare public appearance; Toronto police chief halts use of controversial facial recognition tool; Families with kids ensnared by no-fly list invited to test federal remedy; Counter-terrorism soft law, hard consequences; The FBI Makes a Bizarre Claim About \u201cPro-Choice Terrorism\u201d; CIA controlled global encryption company for decades, says report; The US says Huawei has been spying through \u2018back doors\u2019 designed for law enforcement \u2014 which is what the US has been pressuring tech companies to do for years; Exclusive: More drawings allege CIA\u2019s horrific treatment of Abu Zubaydah; Egypt moves toward toughening up draconian anti-terror law; Russia: Harsh Verdicts in Controversial Terrorism Cases; Remembering Bob Stevenson & more.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, February 7, 2020<\/a><\/span>:\u00a0<\/span>Ottawa marches in solidarity with the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en nation; 6 arrested on Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en territory in fight against pipeline; Hassan Diab holds a press conference; ICLMG presented at the National Security Transparency Advisory Group; Federal agencies mishandled sensitive documents more than 5,000 times last year; Cyberspies \u201cmistakenly\u201d eyed Canadian for five years, watchdog report says; Ontario watchdog would be \u2018very concerned\u2019 about police using tools like Clearview AI; Privacy Commissioner files Notice of Application with the Federal Court against Facebook, Inc.; How counter-terror police quash dissent; Dispatch from Guantanamo: U.S. Must Open Criminal Investigation into Mitchell and Jessen, Two Torture Program Psychologists; European complicity in CIA torture in \u2018black sites\u2019; MI5 policy allowing informants to commit serious crimes ruled lawful; Russia Independent Media Rally to Cause of Jailed Journalist; U.S. Counterterrorism Rule Hampers Vital Humanitarian Aid in Nigeria; Iraq: UN human rights report voices concern over conduct of ISIL fighter trials; Les autorit\u00e9s fran\u00e7aises entretiennent des camps de prisonniers pour enfants en Syrie; Belgian government defies ruling of its supreme court on PKK & more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, January 31, 2020<\/a><\/span>:\u00a0<\/span>Video of talk on surveillance of progressive orgs; Solidarity with survivors & families of Quebec City Mosque shooting\u2019s victims; Trois ans apr\u00e8s la tuerie de la Grande Mosqu\u00e9e: la loi 21 point\u00e9e du doigt; Groups demand Ottawa take action over CSIS discrimination claims; The RCMP is a force of colonial bigotry; Oversight at the border: Will the government\u2019s new oversight bill ensure truly independent review of complaints filed against CBSA?; Counter-terrorism laws provide smokescreen for civil society restrictions; More than 300 human rights activists were killed in 2019, report reveals; \u2018This is mass rape\u2019: China slammed over programme that \u2018appoints\u2019 men to sleep with Uighur women; Guant\u00e1namo\u2019s Indelible Legacy: E ight ways Gitmo has contaminated American institutions, laws and customs; Editorial: The Tropic of Torture, from Guantanamo to Washington; US dropped record number of bombs on Afghanistan last year; Canada\u2019s go-ahead for new Saudi exports leaves questions unanswered; Trump may extend his travel ban under the guise of anti-terrorism efforts; and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, January 24, 2020<\/a><\/span>:\u00a0<\/span>ICLMG Event: \u201cWhen Poverty Mattered\u201d Book Launch and Discussion on the national security surveillance of progressive orgs; Stop deportation of Moe Harkat; Hassan Diab sues govt for $90M; 10 yo boy still on No Fly List; Canada\u2019s long history of criminalizing Indigenous resistance; Reporter\u2019s Charter rights not violated, mischief trial to proceed, judge rules; CBSA broke law with digital device searches, privacy watchdog says; \u2018I\u2019m appalled\u2019: Lawyers alarmed as Ottawa gives more powers to U.S. border officers at Canadian airports; How the Prosecution of Animal Rights Activists as Terrorists Foretold Today\u2019s Criminalization of Dissent; Australia\u2019s Leader Called For A Crackdown On Environmentalists Before Fires Broke Out; Revealed: US listed climate activist group as \u2018extremists\u2019 alongside mass killers; Greenpeace, Extinction Rebellion and many non-violent groups included with neo-Nazis on UK counter-terror list; Take it from Britain\u2019s Muslims, it\u2019s not Extinction Rebellion that\u2019s the problem, it\u2019s Prevent; Targeted killings via drone becoming \u2018normalised\u2019 \u2013 report; A Torturer Meets His Victims: CIA Psychologist Defends Brutal Methods at Guant\u00e1namo Military Hearing; The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It; The Privacy Project: Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy; and more.<\/p>\n

The News Digest was on hiatus for 5 weeks.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, December 13, 2019<\/a><\/span>: Canada must bring back Yasser Albaz; Open letter to Public Safety Minister Bill Blair: The Liberal Government Must Stop Mohamed Harkat\u2019s Deportation to Torture; What we\u2019ve been up to in 2019! End-of-Year Summary; A forgotten Canadian returns home from the war on terror; Transport Canada investigates \u2018racist\u2019 song shared in no-fly list office \u2013 10 years after the fact; Open Letter to Law Enforcement in the U.S., UK, and Australia: Weak Encryption Puts Billions of Internet Users at Risk; UN assistant secretary general for human rights: The Children of ISIS Don\u2019t Belong in Cages, Either; Top US officials repeatedly misled public about Afghanistan War; Amnesty International USA Calls for Declassification and Full Release of Torture Report; Ahmed Rabbani: I\u2019m innocent but still in Guant\u00e1namo because Trump is denying me justice; D.C. Circuit Considers Limits on Guantanamo Detention; John Kiriakou: Those Torture Drawings in the NYT; China: Government must show proof that Xinjiang detainees have been released; Aung San Suu Kyi impassive as genocide hearing begins; Ontario Parliamentarian Follows in Trump\u2019s Footsteps, Introduces Bill Equating Criticism of Israel with Antisemitism; US plans to introduce facial scanning for all travellers; Social Media Vetting of Visa Applicants Violates the First Amendment; Human Rights First Statement on 2020 NDAA; White House veterans helped Gulf monarchy build secret surveillance unit; and more.<\/span>
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News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, December 6, 2019<\/a><\/span>:\u00a0Time to reform Canada\u2019s Extradition Act; Experts dispute Canada\u2019s claim of no link between Saudi arms sales & human rights abuses; RCMP surveillance plane circles Stittsville for hours; Activist says RCMP profile about her is \u2018kind of creepy and unsettling\u2019; Keystone XL: police discussed stopping anti-pipeline activists \u2018by any means\u2019; These journalists have confounded China\u2019s massive propaganda machine; Former B.C. politician claims Chinese accused him of \u2018endangering national security\u2019; HudBay Operations in Peru and Guatemala: Violence and Repression Found to Result from Mining Company Contracts with State Security Forces; What the C.I.A.\u2019s Torture Program Looked Like to the Tortured; Donald Trump Keeps Navy SEALs Above the Law; Homeland Security will soon have biometric data on nearly 260 million people; Balancing act: Anti-terror efforts and humanitarian principles; Egypt: State Security prosecution operating as a \u2018sinister tool of repression\u2019; Critical Turkey economist detained by anti-terrorism police; London Bridge victim\u2019s father condemns \u2018beyond disgusting\u2019 Boris Johnson for using son\u2019s death for political gain; Iran: Death toll from bloody crackdown on protests rises to 208; Montreal pays activist $55,000 after brutal arrest by police officers; Charges dropped against more than 100 Extinction Rebellion protesters, and more.
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News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, November 29, 2019<\/a><\/span>: Memorial for Michele: End Femicide, Reform the Extradition Law and Launch of Public Inquiry Now!; No-Fly Lists: The Experiences of Canadian Muslims; Someone Call the Cops on new Public Safety Minister; Trans Mountain monitoring anti-pipeline activists, labelling some as \u2018persons of interest\u2019; Why government and industry want us to view the CN Rail strike as a security\u00a0risk; Attorney-General David Lametti invokes power to block judge-ordered disclosures; China Cables Exposed: China\u2019s Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm; Leak of China documents raises questions about imprisoned Canadian Huseyin Celil; \u2018They can find out anything\u2019: Leaked documents show China\u2019s surveillance of Uighurs worldwide; Revealed: power and reach of China\u2019s surveillance dragnet; Turkey: Prosecution call for jail term of up to 15 years for six human rights defenders, including Amnesty\u2019s honorary chair and former director, defies logic; \u00c9ditorial: Il faut juger en France les djihadistes fran\u00e7ais; Amid War Crimes Allegations, Afghan Government Lacks Proper Mechanisms to Investigate; Iran: World must strongly condemn use of lethal force against protesters as death toll rises to 143; David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression: The surveillance industry is assisting state suppression. It must be stopped, and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, November 21, 2019<\/a><\/span>:\u00a0ICLMG: Spy Agency\u2019s Failure to Inform Minister of \u201cHigh Risk\u201d Ops Raises Troubling Questions + 8 Steps the Liberal Govt Must Take to Protect Civil Liberties; Plus d\u2019un tiers des personnes tu\u00e9es par la GRC sont autochtones; No One in Israel Knew They Were Committing a Massacre, and They Didn\u2019t Care; Canada reverses UN stance on Palestinians in break with U.S. over settlements; Analysis Finds U.S.-Led Wars Since 9\/11 Killed 801,000 at a Cost of $6.4 Trillion; Anti-terror measures against youngsters\u2019 online posts \u2018linked to spike in child detention globally\u2019; Calling Out the Misuse of Terrorism Rhetoric Against Refugee and Asylum Seekers; Trump proposed sending migrants to Guant\u00e1namo, claims book by anonymous author; The Xinjiang Papers: \u2018Absolutely No Mercy\u2019: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims; No need to worry about war crimes, Trump has soldiers\u2019 backs: Neil Macdonald; Guantanamo Bay detainee: I lived through CIA torture. Everyone else can catch the movie; U.S. court refuses to lift stay of Omar Khadr appeal, leaving him in legal limbo: lawyer; Iran: More than 100 protesters believed to be killed as top officials give green light to crush protests; Nearly 3 billion people have lost their freedom in the name of ensuring public order. Now what?; Patriot Act Renewal Sneaks Through Congress With Dem Support; Border activist Scott Warren acquitted of harboring immigrants who crossed US-Mexico border; and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, November 15, 2019<\/a><\/span>:\u00a0<\/span>ICLMG\u2019s Open Letter to PM: Minority Government Must Act to Promote, Defend Civil Liberties; Tim McSorley Talk at CCU 50th Anniversary Convention; Justice pour Hassan Diab: La BD; Montr\u00e9al va abroger le r\u00e8glement P-6; What will it take for the Government of Canada to stop characterizing the U.S. as a \u2018safe\u2019 place for refugees?; Syrie: Ottawa accus\u00e9 de ne rien faire pour les \u00aborphelins du djihad\u00bb; The names of Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza; Abortions, IUDs and sexual humiliation: Muslim women who fled China for Kazakhstan recount ordeals; \u2018It\u2019s Mutilation\u2019: The Police in Chile Are Blinding Protesters; \u2018Enormous Victory\u2019: US Judge Rules Suspicionless Searches of Travelers\u2019 Electronic Devices Unconstitutional; Murtaza Hussain: Baghdadi Died, but the U.S. War on Terror Will Go on Forever; Philippines: \u2018We are a humanitarian organization,\u2019 Oxfam stresses after AFP labels them terrorist front; EXCLUSIVE: This Is How the U.S. Military\u2019s Massive Facial Recognition System Works; Australia: Privacy Commissioner blasts \u2018obnoxious, fundamentally flawed\u2019 anti-terror law; Statement of Civil Liberties Concerns About Monitoring of Social Media by Law Enforcement; UK breaching international law over torture \u2018cover-up\u2019, UN expert warns; and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, November 8, 2019<\/a><\/span>:\u00a0<\/span>Justice for Hassan Diab: Contact the PM; RCMP launches review of its social media monitoring; Federal employees worried they\u2019re trained to spy on co-workers; Don\u2019t Expand the War on Terror in the Name of Antiracism; Security and intelligence incursions in academic research: a threat to all of social science; \u2018This Is Ethnic Cleansing\u2019: A Dispatch from Kurdish Syria; Hundreds in Turkey Arrested in Crackdown on Critics of Military Offensive in Syria; New Zealand Labour-led government extends draconian anti-terror laws; Ha\u00efti: au moins 42 morts dont 19 tu\u00e9s par la police depuis mi-septembre; Aid workers question USAID counter-terror clause in Nigeria; Punished for committing no crime: How the Safe Third Country Agreement violates the Charter rights to equality, liberty and security; Your DNA Profile is Private? A Florida Judge Just Said Otherwise; New report shows 100+ members of civil society targeted as NSO Group continues to evade scrutiny; Extinction Rebellion: High Court rules London protest ban unlawful; Canada\u2019s access to information and privacy guardians urge governments to modernize legislation to better protect Canadians; and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, November 1, 2019<\/a><\/span>:\u00a0<\/span>New ICLMG Video: Justice for Hassan Diab; ICLMG Joins International Call for Moratorium on Facial Recognition Technology; Trudeau\u2019s decision to keep refugee families separated is unconscionable; Court to hear why sending refugee claimants back to the U.S. breaks Canadian law; Court challenge to Waterfront Toronto\/Sidewalk Lab\u2019s smart city continues; Young people take over House of Commons; South Dakota Governor drops anti-protest laws in settlement agreement with ACLU; Baghdadi Is Dead. The War on Terror Will Create Another; WhatsApp sues Israeli firm, accusing it of hacking activists\u2019 phones; Republicans propose mass student surveillance plan to prevent shootings; The FBI Spends a Lot of Time Spying on Black Americans; Targeted Killing of Journalist Reflects Global Pattern + Application of the death penalty to foreign nationals and the provision of consular assistance by the home State; Ethiopia: Release of \u2018coup\u2019 suspects without charge follows continued abuse of anti-terrorism law; Iraqi PM Sends Counter-Terror Force To Put Down Street Protests; UK man who fought ISIS found guilty of terror offence in retrial; and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, October 25, 2019<\/a><\/span>:\u00a0<\/span>Victoire pour le droit de manifester \u00e0 Qu\u00e9bec; Court sides with Canadian critic of mining company; IACHR Calls to Protect Environmental Defenders; FBI\u2019s Long History of Treating Political Dissent as Terrorism; Rejecting Challenge to No Fly List, Federal Appeals Court Leaves Men Charged With No Crime \u2018In an Indefinite Kafkaesque Nightmare\u2019; A Million People Are Jailed at China\u2019s Gulags. I Managed to Escape. Here\u2019s What Really Goes on Inside; ICE officer who drove truck into Jewish protesters will not be charged with a crime; An American Citizen Was Detained While Trying to Pay a Customs Fee on a Gift for His Daughter; \u2018What Is Going to Happen to Us?\u2019 Inside ISIS Prison, Children Ask Their Fate; Let jihadists return home, French anti-terror magistrate urges; The Guantanamo Bay prisoner whose fate was sealed by a Trump tweet; Turkey accused of using threats and deception to deport Syrian refugees; UN expert calls for ban on Israeli products from settlements, and much more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, October 18, 2019<\/a><\/span>: Updated National Security Info Card with ICLMG\u2019s comments; NCCM Mustafa Farooq\u2019s comments on the Conservatives new platform promise; CCIC & ICLMG on Canada\u2019s Charitable Sector; Drones approved for Canadian military; Syria: Evidence of war crimes by Turkish forces; Persecuted and uprooted, a young Yemeni finds safe haven in Canada; Why hasn\u2019t Trudeau helped all the Snowden Refugees?; Edward Snowden: Without encryption, we will lose all privacy. This is our new battleground; Over 20 Canadian Organizations Stand in Solidarity with Ecuadorian Indigenous, Labour, and Civil Society Organizations; Citizen group focused on stopping ByWard Market surveillance cameras; U.S. border guards detain Canadian woman for 5 hours, refuse entry without visa; Extinction Rebellion blanket ban chilling and unlawful; Rebel Daily 6: Brutality in Belgium; Civil liberties groups sound alarm over online extremism bill; United Nations Backslides on Human Rights in Counterterrorism; The Privacy Project: You\u2019re in a Police Lineup, Right Now (video); The FISA Court\u2019s 702 Opinions, Part I: A History of Non-Compliance Repeats Itself; \u00ab Le communautarisme, ce n\u2019est pas le terrorisme \u00bb : Macron souligne l\u2019irresponsabilit\u00e9 de certains commentateurs politiques; and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, October 11, 2019<\/a><\/span>: ICLMG\u2019s National Security Info Card 2015-2019; ICLMG presented at the CCU!; Open letter seeks federal party leaders\u2019 promise to launch public inquiry on case of Hassan Diab; Diab, who fought terrorism allegations, finally gets new citizenship certificate; Statement by Ms. Fionnuala N\u00ed Aol\u00e1in at the 2019 Global Counter-Terrorism Forum on the shrinking of\u00a0civic space; Position of the Special Rapporteur on the Return of \u201cForeign Fighters\u201d and their Families to Europe; How Canada\u2019s far right is using anti-Muslim propaganda to target Trudeau; Police cannot arrest lawful protesters, even to prevent violence by others, Supreme Court rules; Arrestations douloureuses pour les militants d\u2019Extinction Rebellion \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al; Canadian Mining Companies Part of the Problem as Repression of Indigenous and Social Movements Escalates in Ecuador; Dakota Access Pipeline Activists Face 110 Years in Prison, Two Years After Confessing Sabotage; After Trump Abandoned Kurds, Turkish Invasion Raises Fear of Kurdish Genocide & ISIS Resurgence; Egypt: children swept up in crackdown on anti-Sisi protests; A Ugandan leader just called LGBT+ people \u2018terrorists\u2019; Ethiopia: Release journalists arrested on unsubstantiated terrorism charges; New Zealand: Anti-terror measures vs digital freedom; Iraq: Lethal Force Used Against Protesters; Hong Kong: Emergency powers are an extreme attempt to quash protests; and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, October 4, 2019<\/a>: 2 PPC candidates tweet cartoon of Jagmeet Singh wearing turban with bomb on it; Canadian spy agency presented with transparency award, refuses to confirm details about event; Canada joins the Arms Trade Treaty \u2014 but will it cancel the Saudi deal?; Supreme Court ruling bolsters journalists\u2019 authority to protect confidential sources; The Open Letter from the Governments of US, UK, and Australia to Facebook is An All-Out Attack on Encryption; Revealed: Anti-terror center helped police track environmental activists; New Domestic Terrorism Laws Are Unnecessary for Fighting White Nationalists; Australia has enacted 82 anti-terror laws since 2001. But tough laws alone can\u2019t eliminate terrorism; \u2018Enemies of the state\u2019: The anti-terrorism laws that undermine our freedoms; Arun Kundnani: Leaving the \u2018War on Terror\u2019: alternatives to Prevent?; China is killing religious and ethnic minorities and harvesting their organs, UN Human Rights Council told; Prisoners \u2018buried alive\u2019 living in 24\/7 silence and darkness in solitary confinement; Coders\u2019 Rights Are At Risk in Brazil, and the Harms Could Affect Everyone; How this Russian journalist could end up in prison \u201cfor justifying terrorism\u201d; Leaking classified information is \u2018thievery, not protected speech,\u2019 Justice Department says; U.S. judge blocks Trump rule on migrant child detention, and more.
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News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, September 27, 2019<\/a>: ICLMG Calls On Federal Leaders to Commit to Defending Civil Liberties in 2019 Federal Election; A Shackled BC Pipeline Protester Reflects; The FBI targeted environmental activists in domestic terror investigations; Justin Trudeau is legitimizing Donald Trump\u2019s concentration camps \u2013 video; Politicians must stop \u2018normalising language of far-right if we want to tackle terror\u2019; Leaders clash over Andrew Scheer\u2019s pledge to end funding for UNRWA at debate; Fears for Rohingya refugees, a Dutch counter-terror bill that could impede aid; Human rights: Reported reprisals on the rise, says UN; Court calls U.S. \u2018enhanced interrogation techniques\u2019 torture; U.S. Military Appoints Panel For Omar Khadr\u2019s War-Crimes Appeal; Guantanamo Periodic Review Board Hearings Fail to Meaningfully Review Detention; Egyptian forces fire teargas at anti-Sisi protesters in Cairo; Hong Kong: Arbitrary arrests, brutal beatings and torture in police detention revealed; Live facial recognition surveillance \u2018must stop\u2019; Citizens can\u2019t be sued for filing access to information requests, court rules; and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, September 20, 2019<\/a>: ICLMG Top 10 Asks for the 2019 Federal Election; Podcast: Why Is The State Of Civil Liberties Missing From Canada\u2019s Election Campaign? Featuring ICLMG\u2019s Tim McSorley; The global assault on environmental rights behind Jason Kenney\u2019s war; Refugees Explained \u2013 Election Reality Check; \u2018Total Massacre\u2019 as U.S. Drone Strike Kills 30 Farmers in Afghanistan; How the FBI Increased Its Power After 9\/11 and Helped Put Trump in Office; Constitution Day 2019: The Hidden Domestic Surveillance Crisis; Edward Snowden Responds After Trump DOJ Sues Whistleblower Over New Memoir the US Government \u2018Does Not Want You to Read\u2019; 5 rights groups urge UN chief to condemn China over Muslims; Trump pushes tweet falsely claiming Ilhan Omar partied on 9\/11 anniversary; Oxfam faces $160 million legal threat over Palestine aid project & more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, September 13, 2019<\/a>: \u00a0Update in the Justice for Hassan Diab campaign; ICLMG on CSIS secrecy and policy issues; Amnesty International says Jason Kenney\u2019s \u2018fight back\u2019 strategy violates human rights; Reporter Justin Brake mounting charter challenge against Muskrat Falls charges; Quand l\u2019immigration est une cons\u00e9quence directe des guerres sans fin; Exclusive: Edward Snowden\u2019s guardian angels (video); Rights Groups Urge House Dems to Block NSA From Collecting Americans\u2019 Phone Records; Harrowing Cables Detail How the CIA Tortured Accused 9\/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Jeopardizing the Case Against Him; The FBI Was Deeply Involved in CIA Black Site Interrogations Despite Years of Denials, Guant\u00e1namo Defense Lawyer Says; What Happens Now to the More Than 1 Million People on the U.S.\u2019 Terrorist Watchlist; How the \u2018War on Terror\u2019 became a convenient tool for repression; Iran: Prison and flogging sentences for seven journalists and activists \u2018disgraceful injustice\u2019; France: G7 Summit clouded by crackdown on protesters; The myth of the free speech crisis & more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, September 5, 2019<\/a>: ICLMG: Why CBSA needs a watchdog + comments on \u201cFederal judge says US terror watchlist is unconstitutional\u201d & \u201cNHS reports protester to Prevent for joining Extinction Rebellion\u201d; Following release of BC activist Rita Wong, Canada must not criminalize protest; Leaving the War on Terror: A Progressive Alternative to Counter-Terrorism Policy; EU to regulate face recognition as privacy threat; Digital civic space under attack; The U.S. Border Patrol and an Israeli Military Contractor Are Putting a Native American Reservation Under \u201cPersistent Surveillance\u201d; Border Patrol Has Killed At Least 97 People Since 2003. Hear Some of Their Victims\u2019 Stories; \u2018I Can\u2019t Feel My Heart:\u2019 Children Separated from Their Parents at US-Mexico Border Showed Increased Signs of Post-traumatic Stress; Turkey has sentenced 321 lawyers to 2,000 years in jail since 2016 \u2013 report; Bangladesh may \u2018force\u2019 100,000 Rohingya to resettle on uninhabited island; Body of Michigan Man Deported to Iraq Is Returned to the U.S. & more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, August 30, 2019<\/a>: Justice for Hassan Diab: Our webcomic & new action; Canadian Muslims denied entry to US; Canada must end migration detention of children; Bad Idea to Vet Migrants\u2019 Social Media; Let\u2019s Not Start a New War on Terror; Why New Laws Against White Supremacist Violence Are the Wrong Response to El Paso; What in the world is Adam Schiff thinking with his domestic terrorism bill?; Alex Neve on \u201cThe \u2018Jihadi Jack\u2019 debate: Who has a right to come to Canada?\u201d; Canada used citizens travelling to Communist countries to gather intelligence during Cold War: report; CCR joins protests against North America\u2019s withdrawal from refugee protection; More than 1,700 activists have been killed this century defending the environment; Halt the use of facial-recognition technology until it is regulated; Victory for Netpol campaigning as Home Office confirms it has stopped using the term \u201cdomestic extremism\u201d; The Tragic Story of Jimmy Aldaoud, Deported From the Streets of Detroit to His Death in Iraq; and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, August 23, 2019<\/a>: ICLMG: Review of Hassan Diab case won\u2019t prevent future wrongful extraditions; The Liberals promised to reform Bill C-51. What happened?; CSIS harassment of Muslim youth; Air Canada forced 12-year-old Muslim girl to take off her hijab after already passing security; RCMP \u2018sitting on\u2019 watchdog report into alleged spying on anti-oil protesters; Deportation of former child refugee a violation of international law: Canadian human rights lawyer \u2013 take action!; Canada\u2019s New and Irresponsible Encryption Policy; Federal Court Judge Concedes \u2013 If Canadian Embassy in Mexico Had Acted Differently, Mariano Abarca Might Not Have Been Murdered, But Refuses to Order Investigation; From El Paso to the War on Terror, the Dangers of Historical Amnesia; The FBI could fight far-right violence if they wanted to \u2013 but they don\u2019t; Portland Rejects Proud Boys & Other Ultra-Right Groups as Trump Tries to Criminalize Antifa; Oil Lobbyist Touts Success in Effort to Criminalize Pipeline Protests, Leaked Recording Shows; US to remove limit on how long immigrant children can be detained; For Years, Reporters Questioned the Terror Prosecution of Hamid Hayat. Now He\u2019s Been Freed; and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, July 19, 2019<\/a>:\u00a0ICLMG calls for release of report on Hassan Diab; ICLMG comments on new national security review mechanism coming into existence & new Entry\/Exit program coming into force; ICLMG denounces Australian encryption law; Environmentalists felt like \u2018enemies of the state\u2019 after cabinet minister\u2019s letter; Civil liberties association looking into the Cedar Hopperton parole case; Critics question why Canada\u2019s border officers need bulletproof vests to work with migrants; In light of new US refugee policy, Canada must Immediately Suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement; Fight for the Future: Don\u2019t Regulate Facial Recognition. Ban It; The network behind state bills \u2018countering\u2019 Sharia law and terrorism; Ethiopia: New journalist arrests put press freedom gains at risk; Crimean Tatars Face Unfounded Terrorism Charges: Raids, Arbitrary Arrests, Torture of Activists; Russian Journalist Feels \u2018Doomed\u2019 by Inclusion on Terror List; China Is Forcing Tourists to Install Text-Stealing Malware at its Border and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, July 12, 2019<\/a>: \u2018This isn\u2019t about national security\u2019: Civil liberties group releases Protest Papers showing CSIS spying of pipeline activists; ICLMG\u2019 comments; Trans Mountain protesters may already be under surveillance; What CSIS ought to investigate instead; \u2018Protesters as terrorists\u2019: growing number of states turn anti-pipeline activism into a crime; Cedar Hopperton will stay in jail following heated speech at Hamilton city hall; It\u2019s Time for the Democratic Candidates to Confront Islamophobia; China accused of rapid campaign to take Muslim children from their families; The Massive Perils of the Latest U.N. Resolution on Terrorism; U.K. proposal to \u2018Bcc\u2019 law enforcement on messaging apps threatens global privacy; Revealed: This Is Palantir\u2019s Top-Secret User Manual for Cops; Revealed: This Is Palantir\u2019s Top-Secret User Manual for Cops; Egypt: Detainees trapped in \u2018revolving doors\u2019 of prison system as authorities bypass release orders; Pentagon Document Shows U.S. Knew of \u201cCredible\u201d Reports of Civilian Casualties After Its Attacks in Somalia; FBI\u2019s Leniency Toward Border Vigilante Contrasts With Harsh Treatment of \u201cBlack Identity Extremist\u201d; Report Shows How War Profiteers Are Now Refugee Profiteers, Too; ICE Just Quietly Opened Three New Detention Centers, Flouting Congress\u2019 Limits; Europe Has Turned Its Back on Its ISIS Suspects; D\u00e9tention abusive: un recours collectif de 77 millions$, and more.
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News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, July 5, 2019<\/a>: Take action: Justice Minister must release report on Hassan Diab now; Canada still shipping LAVs to Saudi Arabia; Advisory Group on National Security Transparency launched; Jason Kenney\u2019s \u2018War Room\u2019 is a Threat to Free Speech; Calls for probe of Canadian lobbyist firm\u2019s contract with Sudan military regime; She Defended Her Land Against a Mine in Guatemala. Then She Fled in Fear for Her Life; The missing outrage from Canada\u2019s political leaders on U.S. child \u2018torture facilities\u2019; Judge blocks Trump policy keeping asylum-seekers locked up; US Authorities are misusing justice system to harass migrant human rights defenders; Pia Klemp: I Helped Save Thousands of Migrants from Drowning. Now I\u2019m Facing 20 Years in Jail; Air strike kills at least 44 at migrant detention centre in Libya; Trump officials weigh encryption crackdown; Domestic extremism label is \u2018manifestly deficient\u2019 says former reviewer of terrorism laws; EU\u2019s terrorism filter plans: The problems just keep coming; Whistleblower returns to Australian court over Afghan leak; Moratorium call on surveillance technology to end \u2018free-for-all\u2019 abuses: UN expert; Europe should ban AI for mass surveillance and social credit scoring, says advisory group; Japan to Hack 200 Million IoT Devices; CIA Has Covered Up Torture for Decades. Will Torturers Ever Be Prosecuted?; Don\u2019t strip ISIS terror suspects like \u2018Jihadi Jack\u2019 of citizenship, experts say & more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, June 28, 2019<\/a>: 16 Years Fighting Deportation to Torture: Enough!; ICLMG: Who reviews cyber attacks in Canada?; CBSA won\u2019t be getting independent review as bill dies; Feds spent $2M last year to fight Abdelrazik torture lawsuit; Death of Uighur writer sparks call for Canada to act; While applauding Canadian Arms Trade Treaty accession, civil society looks for action to curb our Saudi arms exports; Mounties put more eyes in the sky with expanding drone fleet; UK: Five ridiculous reasons why the police label campaigners as \u2018domestic extremists\u2019; Trump Admin Moves 100 Migrant Kids Back to \u201cChild Jail\u201d Despite Concern over Inhumane Conditions; Citizens to the UN: Investigate Our \u201cTorture Chambers in the Sky\u201d; Pakistan: Human right activist charged under anti-terrorism laws for raising voice over rape and murder of a minor; Australia: Anti-terrorism legislation strips civil liberties; Deprivation and Despair: A New Report on the Guantanamo Detainees; Statelessness for terrorists\u2019 families, never an acceptable option, urges UN rights chief; Daesh suspect Jack Letts\u2019 parents found guilty of funding terrorism; Ottawa makes it harder for bidders to challenge national security exceptions and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, June 21, 2019<\/a>: What we\u2019ve done in 2019; C-59 has passed: MPs have failed to protect our rights; Canada should think again about having the ability to use offensive cyber weapons; RCMP was created to control Indigenous people. Can it change?; \u2018Army\u2019 of RCMP to Protect Pipeline, but No Answers on Indigenous Woman\u2019s Death; Inuit land protectors arrested on Parliament Hill; Native rights advocates try to bust \u2018riot-boosting\u2019 law in court; Advocates urge Ottawa to stop sales of military goods to Saudi Arabia; UK: Arms to Saudi Arabia ruling welcomed as \u2018rare piece of good news for Yemen\u2019; Jim Bronskill: CSIS destroyed secret file on Pierre Trudeau, stunning historians; Scientists Are Aiding Apartheid in China; Des groupes de d\u00e9fense des libert\u00e9s civiles intentent un recours juridique contre la loi 21; Next Customs and Border Protection press secretary will be Katharine Gorka; Surveillance and human rights: Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of expression; Kenya: Robert Alai may be first blogger charged under new anti-terrorism law; Krept & Konan accuse police of using anti-terror laws to \u2018clampdown\u2019 on rappers & more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, June 14, 2019<\/a>: Update on C-59; ICLMG interviewed: Army spies can collect, share info on Canadians + Teacher strip-searched at airport after angry guard didn\u2019t find drugs; Why was centre for intelligence expertise kept so secret?; How the RCMP Dealt With the Media During a Suspected Terror Attack; Saudi Arabia: Authorities must not resort to use of death penalty against protester arrested aged 13; The FBI Admits Black Lives Matter Was Never a Threat. It\u2019s White People You Should Be Worried About; Press Freedom Under Attack: Australian Police Raid Network for Exposing War Crimes in Afghanistan; Media group demands release of jailed Al Jazeera journalist; Stephen Breyer Is Worried About the Forever War\u2019s Permanent Prisoners. He\u2019s 15 Years Too Late; House panel bans new detainees from entering Gitmo, blocks new construction; Mauritania: Allow Ex-Guantanamo Detainee to Travel; OMCT \u200fcalls on Turkish gov\u2019t to investigate \u2018credible\u2019 torture allegations \u2018across the country\u2019; The Impact of \u201cExtremist\u201d Speech Regulations on Human Rights Content; Soudan : quatre personnes tu\u00e9es au premier jour d\u2019un mouvement de d\u00e9sob\u00e9issance civile.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, June 7, 2019<\/a>: ICLMG had its Spring General Assembly on June 4 in Montreal; China targeting human-rights activists in Canada, Senate committee told; The Ongoing Persecution of China\u2019s Uyghurs; Trump Administration Asks Congress to Make Disrupting Pipeline Construction a Crime Punishable by 20 Years in Prison; Meltdown Showed Extent of NSA Surveillance \u2014 and Other Tales From Hundreds of Intelligence Documents; Prosecuting Julian Assange for Espionage Is a Coup Attempt Against the First Amendment; Turkey seeks extradition of UK barrister over Twitter activity; \u201cMassacre\u201d in Sudan: Protesters Continue Call for Civilian Rule After Military Kills 100+ at Sit-in; Big Data and Criminal Justice \u2013 What Canadians Should Know; U.S. now seeking social media details from most visa applicants; Fatal gunfire escalates Pakistan army crackdown on Pashtun group; German security agencies want access to home devices and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, May 31, 2019<\/a>: ICLMG: Senators fail to protect civil liberties by adopting Bill C-59 without crucial amendments; ICLMG to Justice Min: Release Report & Launch Public Inquiry into Hassan Diab Case Now; Open Letter to GCHQ on the Threats Posed by the Ghost Proposal; We are now on Instagram! Lawyers filed a humanitarian appeal in Canada on behalf of four of the Snowden refugees; Yasser Ahmed Albaz\u2019s Detention In Notorious Egyptian Prison Renewed Yet Again; Egypt: Serious Abuses, War Crimes in North Sinai; Criminal charges dropped against group that occupied Muskrat Falls in 2016; After Standing Rock, protesting pipelines can get you a decade in prison and $100K in fines; Le compte Twitter de TLMEP remis en service apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 signal\u00e9 par un internaute; It\u2019s \u2018immoral\u2019 to not let Canadians detained in Syria come home: human rights advocate; US Navy wants 350 billion social media posts; Les dockers de Marseille refusent de charger des armes \u00e0 destination de l\u2019Arabie saoudite; Congress Needs to Take Responsibility for America\u2019s Wars; These laws make police get public buy-in on surveillance tools; Privacy International Wins Historic Victory at UK Supreme Court; Pakistan: Investigate North Waziristan killings, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, May 24, 2019<\/a>: Islamic Relief Canada joins the ICLMG; Meet ICLMG\u2019s co-chair, Rasha; Why wasn\u2019t Bissonnette charged with terrorism?; The secret story of Canada\u2019s fight against migrants; 6th migrant child died in US custody; Amnesty Urges U.S. to Pay Reparations to Syrians After Killing 1,600 Civilians in Assault on Raqqa; Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues; The Espionage Axe: Donald Trump and the War Against a Free Press \u2013 podcast & video; \u2018We won\u2019t be complicit\u2019: Italian dock workers refuse to load Saudi arms ship over Yemen war \u2013 video; Architects of Post-9\/11 CIA Interrogation Program to Testify Before a Military Tribunal; Family of Jailed Saudi Feminist Loujain Al-Hathloul: She Was Waterboarded, Flogged & Electrocuted; Access Now on the Christchurch Call: rights, wrongs, and what\u2019s next; Trump May Be Preparing Pardons for Servicemen Accused of War Crimes & more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, May 17, 2019<\/a>: Bill C-59: Senate committee misses opportunity to protect rights. Now Senate as a whole must act; Take action: Call on the Senate to fix Bill C-59 and protect our rights!; Animal rights activists are labelled extremists, surveilled by police; Q&A: Omar Khadr and Canadian law; Three former Guantanamo prisoners were cleared by the U.S. \u2014 but will Ottawa let them join their Canadian wives?; I\u2019ve Been to Guantanamo. It\u2019s No Place for Kids.; Migrant boy, 2, dies after being detained by US Border Patrol; 4th death of minor since December; His Visa Was Stamped, His Papers in Order. Then He Was Targeted By a Secretive CBP Task Force; \u2018Flying Ginsu\u2019 Missile Won\u2019t Resolve U.S. Targeted Killing Controversy; Trump Steps up War on Whistleblowers: Air Force Vet Daniel Hale Arrested For Leaking Drone War Info; Chelsea Manning ordered to jail again after refusing to testify on WikiLeaks; France Takes Unprecedented Action Against Reporters Who Published Secret Government Document; Muslim groups contest claim that proposed definition could undermine counter-terror fight, and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, May 10, 2019<\/a>: ICLMG urges Senate to protect our rights & fix Bill C-59, the National Security Act, 2017; CBSA seizes lawyer\u2019s devices for not sharing passwords; ICLMG on new CBSA review legislation and No-Fly List Study; How Mass Surveillance Works in Xinjiang, China; Counter-terrorism measures threaten democracy; Turquie : perp\u00e9tuit\u00e9 confirm\u00e9e pour les journalistes Ahmet Altan et Nazli Ilicak; Coalition Letter to DHS Opposing Surveillance of Activists, Journalists, and Lawyers; It\u2019s time for everyone to admit that the Guantanamo military commissions have failed & more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, May 3, 2019<\/a>: Tim McSorley on Bill C-59 Senate Commitee hearing; Families of 2 executed men call on Canada to stop arming Saudi Arabia; RCMP invasion of Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Nation territory breaches Canada\u2019s \u2018rule of law\u2019; Pipeline Protester in West Virginia Faces Terrorism Charge for Civil Disobedience; Trump blacklisting the Muslim Brotherhood has nothing to do with \u2018fighting terrorism\u2019; New Pentagon Report Significantly Undercounts Civilian Casualties; US Counterterrorism Under the UN Spotlight; Another synagogue shooting: Of course Trump won\u2019t crack down on white supremacist terror; Nationalist Politicians Push Sri Lankan \u201cPatriot Act\u201d on Fearful Populace Following Easter Attacks; Brown University student mistakenly identified as Sri Lanka bombing suspect; Campaigners against Uighur oppression blacklisted on terrorism database; and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, April 26, 2019<\/a>: B.C. men challenge constitutionality of Canada\u2019s no-fly list; Enabling Civil Society Report; Omar Khadr \u00e0 TLMEP; Coalition airstrikes Killed 1,600 Syrian Civilians; Saudi Arabia executed 37 after sham terror trial; Vancouver airport rejects ads offering information on digital privacy; US facial recognition will cover 97 percent of departing airline passengers within four years; Communities at risk: How encroaching surveillance is putting a squeeze on activists; We Built an \u2018Unbelievable\u2019 (but Legal) Facial Recognition Machine; How the War on Terror Is Being Written; Guant\u00e1namo\u2019s Slow Poisoning of Democracy; US immigration officials looking at housing migrant children at Guant\u00e1namo Bay, report says; The U.S.-Mexico border isn\u2019t protected by militias, it\u2019s patrolled by domestic terrorists; Severe police-state measures come into force in Sri Lanka; Collapse of rule of law in Erdo\u011fan\u2019s Turkey; NSA Recommends Dropping Phone-Surveillance Program; Indigenous peoples lives and their rights increasingly at risk; Cutting off the internet is a TERRIBLE idea, whether or not you agree with Extinction Rebellion, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, April 19, 2019<\/a>: Canada\u2019s terror threat report maligns communities; Le SPVM refuse de dire s\u2019il espionne les Montr\u00e9alais.es; Civil Society Under Attack in Name of Counterterrorism; The US Military Feeds at the Terror Trough; ICC Makes \u201cDangerous Decision\u201d to Drop Probe into U.S. War Crimes in Afghanistan After U.S. Pressure; The Corruption of the Terrorist Group List; French Agency Falsely Reports More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content; Sri Lankan government prepares new anti-terrorism laws; Three teens charged in Malta over refugee ship hijacking; Britons going to terror hotspots face 10 years in jail under controversial new laws; Aidan James: British man who fought against Daesh in Syria faces retrial on terror charges; UK overseas spending linked to 350 death sentences in Pakistan; UK government signals it could back Britons in Syria facing death penalty in Iraq; DC Circuit says Guantanamo judge created \u2018intolerable cloud of partiality\u2019 and tosses his rulings; Trump shifting DHS focus from counterterrorism to immigration (podcast); Alberta: Jason Kenney promet de s\u2019en prendre aux \u00e9colos; and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, April 12, 2019<\/a>: Tim McSorley on changes to problematic Threat Report, National Security Committee\u2019s 1st annual report & first Senate committee meeting on Bill C-59; 5 Reasons to Care about RCMP Monitoring Your Social Media; US Judge considers whether terror watchlist is unconstitutional; As Black Activists Protested Police Killings, Homeland Security Had Unfounded Fear They Might Join ISIS; UN Special Rapporteurs\u2019 Comments on New Australian Law on Online \u201cAbhorrent Violent Material\u201d; Jailing social media bosses won\u2019t make us safer from terrorists; The Consequences of Legislating Cyberlaw After Terrorist Attacks; How News Media Talk About Terrorism: What the Evidence Shows; India \u2013 Anti-terror cell keeps eye on ration card applicants; My Father Was Killed on 9\/11 When I Was Five, But What I Experienced at Guant\u00e1namo Bay Did Not Feel Like Justice; Guant\u00e1namo Trials Grapple With How Much Evidence to Allow About Torture; China\u2019s hi-tech war on its Muslim minority; Dems introduce bill to repeal Trump \u2018Muslim ban\u2019; Canadian Council for Refugees shocked by anti-refugee provisions in Budget Implementation bill; and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, April 5, 2019<\/a>: Tim McSorley on redraft of (Un)Safe Third Country Agreement; Why is my child on a terrorist watchlist?; No digital device privacy at Canadian border; Canada must help refugee families who helped Snowden; RCMP Has Yet to Complete Privacy Assessment on Social Media Surveillance Tech; Ontario court refuses to order accused to unlock his smartphone; Centre de pr\u00e9vention de la radicalisation: Montr\u00e9al caviarde l\u2019essentiel du rapport; France \u2013 Le gouvernement mobilise la lutte anti-terroriste contre les activistes du climat; Coalition of WWII Japanese American internment camp survivors stage protest at migrant detention facility at border; MI6 face another criminal investigation into allegations its officers were party to Guantanamo torture; Pakistan: Misusing Anti-Terrorism Courts; Who facilitated the Christchurch terrorist\u2019s journey through hate?; Australia\u2019s plans for internet regulation: aimed at terrorism, but harming human rights; \u2018I felt like a slave:\u2019 Inside China\u2019s complex system of incarceration and control of minorities; Crimea: At least 20 people detained in a new crackdown against Crimean Tatar minority; Bosnians deported from Croatia for \u2018refusing to spy on Muslims\u2019; Death from Above: Every Saudi coalition air raid on Yemen; Podcast: American Dystopia: The State, Surveillance and Illusion of Choice & more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, March 29, 2019<\/a>: RCMP Social Media Spying Part of Broad Threat to Privacy; Finally Getting it Right on Omar Khadr; Airstrike by Saudi-led coalition killed 5 children; NZ response to mosque massacre offers lessons for Canada; UK police force can download everything from your phone without your consent; Toronto police tight-lipped on details around acquisition\u00a0of controversial surveillance tool; Green Scare: How a Movement That Never Killed Anyone Became the FBI\u2019s No. 1 Domestic Terrorism Threat; Fear of Black Homeland: The Strange Tale of the FBI\u2019s Fictional \u201cBlack Identity Extremism\u201d Movement; Terrorism\u2019s Double Standard: Violent Far-Right Extremists Are Rarely Prosecuted as Terrorists; Sending in the Troops; Ground-Breaking Federal Court Hearing over Canadian Mining Diplomacy and Assassination of Mexican Community Leader; Justin Brake\u2019s case a win for journalistic freedom; Turkish photojournalist Cagdas Erdogan to stand trial on terrorism charges; Two of the Snowden Refugees arrive in Canada; UK \u2018Schedule 7\u2019 stops in violation of human rights, European court rules; \u2018The Case Is Finally Over\u2019: Charges Dropped Against All Remaining J20 Defendants<\/span>.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, March 22, 2019<\/a>: The victims of the NZ shootings; Christchurch happens every day in the war of terror; Trudeau govt must address Islamophobia now; Is NZ the tipping point in the fight against white power movement?; \u2018War on Terror\u2019 advocates have \u2018generated\u2019 far-right terrorism; Rights Activists Denounce China\u2019s Xinjiang White Paper; The Hidden U.S. Air War in Somalia: Amnesty Accuses U.S. of Possible War Crimes for Civilian Deaths; Les cam\u00e9ras du G7 continueront de filmer; Budget includes watchdog agency for border officers; ACLU: The U.S. Is Acting Like an Authoritarian Regime by Barring ICC Officials Probing War Crimes; The FBI Won\u2019t Hand Over Its Surveillance Records on \u2018Black Identity Extremists,\u2019 so We\u2019re Suing; Counter-terrorism and humanitarian action: The perils of zero tolerance; The Maharashtra Muslims acquitted of \u2018terrorism\u2019 after 25 years; and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, March 15, 2019<\/a>: Mass shootings at two mosques in New Zealand; Resources against Islamophobia;\u00a0<\/span>Palestinian protester killed by Israeli forces; ICLMG responds to ex-CSIS analyst op-ed; CAUT interviews Tim McSorley; Counter-terrorism: How do we ensure the state is accountable?; UK\u2019s Prevent guidance to universities unlawful, court rules; Aid groups worry new US anti-terror law could leave them liable; Rappers Charged With Terrorism for Sharing Song Critical of Police on Facebook and YouTube; Plans for Wheelchair-Accessible Cells at Gitmo Paint \u2018Chilling Picture\u2019 of Detainees Held Without Trial For Rest of Their Lives; The American Machine: Police Torture to Drone Assassinations (podcast); The US Government Will Be Scanning Your Face At 20 Top Airports, Documents Show; Canada must do more to help jailed Saudi women, activist says; Soup\u00e7onn\u00e9s d\u2019\u00eatre li\u00e9s \u00e0 l\u2019Etat islamique, des enfants tortur\u00e9s en Irak (vid\u00e9o); and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

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News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, March 8, 2019<\/a>: Canada Must Cancel Vehicles Sales to Saudi Arabia; UN: Saudi anti-terror laws stifle dissent; The Fruit Machine; US lawmakers sign pledge to end forever wars; UK & US bombs killed 1,000 Yemeni civilians; Inside the Secretive U.S. Air War in Somalia: How Many Civilians Have Died as Strikes Escalate?; Security force killings \u2018not crimes\u2019; Abuses against Children Suspected of ISIS Affiliation in Iraq; EU \u2018Terrorist Content\u2019 Proposal Sets Dire Example for Free Speech Online; Disputed NSA Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says; U.S. Govt Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates with Secret Database; GOP\u2019s anti-Muslim display likens Rep. Omar to a terrorist; Will Guantanamo become a 2020 issue?; Google hedges on promise to end controversial involvement in military drone contract; ICE Releases 12 Infants From Detention After Outcry; and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, March 1, 2019<\/a>: ICLMG: Canada must act now for the release and return of Yasser Ahmed Albaz; \u2018I want my father home\u2019: Family of man detained in Egypt calls on Canada to intervene; ICLMG\u2019s comment on Bill C-59 and the inaction on the No Fly List; UN Special Rapporteur: Counter-terrorism is shrinking civil society space; UN says Israel\u2019s killings at\u00a0Gaza protests may amount to war crimes; Nunavut priest sex abuse case stirs up criticism of \u2018least fair law in Canada\u2019; Police in Canada Are Tracking People\u2019s \u2018Negative\u2019 Behavior In a \u2018Risk\u2019 Database; The Trial: A short film on Guantanamo; Guant\u00e1namo Kid: The True Story of Mohammed El-Gharani, a new graphic novel; Stansted 15 ordered back to court over aggravated trespass case; Libert\u00e9 for Whom? French Muslims Grapple With a Republic That Codified Their Marginalization; TEDxTalk: Why people should govern surveillance technology and not the other way around, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, February 22, 2019<\/a>:\u00a0ICLMG on the lack of independent review of CBSA; Justice isn\u2019t served when double standards taint the system; Canada must act in case of political prisoners in Honduras; Mapping the American War on Terror in 80 countries; US Government Rebuked for Giving 1,400 Private Companies Access to Dubious Terrorism Watchlist; The Department of Justice Loves Publicizing Arrests of Alleged Terrorists \u2014 but Not the White Nationalist Coast Guard Officer; UK: Freedom of expression and the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act; Russian Federation: misuse of anti-terrorism legislation limits media freedom and freedom of expression; He is a prominent anti-Modi intellectual. The Indian government wants him behind bars; Global assault on NGOs reaches crisis point as new laws curb vital human rights work; and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, February 15, 2019<\/a>:\u00a0Change of Heart: Call Trudeau Today to Stop Moe Harkat\u2019s Deportation; Open letter to Public Safety Minister Re Inaction on CBSA accountability; Mother of Canadian Resident Imprisoned in Iran Seeks Pardon; L\u2019\u00e9poque d\u2019Alexandre Bissonnette; La gen\u00e8se d\u2019une tuerie; Ottawa must go further in fighting right-wing extremism; Why is Canada ignoring the Snowden refugees?; U.S. Bombings in Afghanistan Approached Record Levels in 2018; What happened to prisoners at Bagram, \u2018Afghanistan\u2019s Guantanamo\u2019?; \u2018Shame for humanity\u2019: Turkey urges China to close Uighur camps; Open letter to EU Parliament on the Terrorism Database; Calls for UK extremism database to be abolished; The U.K.\u2019s Prosecution of Peaceful Protestors Is Raising Fears Over Anti-Terror Laws; Anti-\u2018Black Pete\u2019 protestors make complaint about inclusion on terrorism list; Dems Accuse Trump Admin of \u201cState-Sponsored Child Abuse\u201d as Separated Migrant Children Scandal Grows; Saudi Arabia responsible for Khashoggi\u2019s \u2018brutal\u2019 murder, UN special rapporteur says; Lithuania faces second suit over CIA \u2018black site\u2019, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, February 7, 2019<\/a>:\u00a0Border agency breaches privacy of refugee claimant; Harassment, sexual assault among alleged misconduct by border agents investigated by CBSA; Lettre du Pr\u00e9sident du Centre culturel islamique de Qu\u00e9bec au Premier Ministre du Qu\u00e9bec; Tories \u2018Ramping Up Fear\u2019 About Refugees As Election Looms: Experts; Monia Mazigh: Kingston arrest shows terrorism charges are exclusively for Muslims; Policing Indigenous Dissent: Trends Behind Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Raid; Revealed: FBI investigated civil rights group as \u2018terrorism\u2019 threat and viewed KKK as victims; UN tells UK: stop using terror charges against peaceful protesters; Targeted Killing and the Right to Life: A Structural Framework; Saudi Arabia: Authorities must drop calls to execute peaceful protesters; Exclusive Report: Sold to an ally, lost to an enemy; Trump administration argues it could be \u2018traumatic\u2019 to reunite thousands of migrant children with their parents; Like Military at Gitmo, ICE Reportedly Using Nasal Tubes to Force Feed Migrant Prisoners on Hunger Strike; Alex Neve: Trump-led U.S. is not \u2018safe\u2019 for refugees & more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, February 1, 2019<\/a>: Canada ignores national security threat posed by violence against women; Why we\u2019re holding vigil for Qc city Mosque victims; \u201cIrresponsable et inexact\u201d: Legault nie l\u2019existence de l\u2019Islamophobie au Qu\u00e9bec; Response to Quebec mosque killings stands in stark contrast to arrest of teen in Kingston; Mosqu\u00e9e de Qu\u00e9bec: une veuve reconnue comme victime; Undercover agents target Toronto-based cybersecurity watchdog Citizen Lab,\u00a0which reported key details in Khashoggi case; UK Royal Air Forces classified the Stansted 15 as an \u2018enemy force\u2019; Canada denies Rohingya couple\u2019s asylum claim; Commissaire \u00e0 la protection de la vie priv\u00e9e du Canada: La libert\u00e9 et la d\u00e9mocratie ne peuvent exister sans la vie priv\u00e9e; Sept. 11 defense lawyers threaten hearing boycott over FBI interview of paralegal; and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, January 25, 2019<\/a>:\u00a0Chaque jour est un enfer, t\u00e9moigne la veuve d\u2019une victime de l\u2019attentat de la mosqu\u00e9e de Qu\u00e9bec; Chinese Islamophobia was made in the West; Wife of Canadian citizen jailed 13 years in China fears he\u2019s been \u2018forgotten\u2019 amid Huawei crisis; Time for Canada to stand with Yemeni civilians, not Saudi war criminals; UN: 254 Palestinians killed, 23,000\u00a0injured in Gaza protests; How a Pakistani boy exposed police for killing his family; Abiy\u2019s Ethiopia pardons 13,000 accused of treason or terrorism; Turquie : dix ans de prison pour Murat Arslan, laur\u00e9at 2017 du prix Vaclav-Havel; UK: Do not criminalise aid work; Stansted 15 launch appeal against disproportionate convictions; No End in Sight: The Perils of Trump\u2019s Guant\u00e1namo; Une personne meure aux mains de la police \u00e0 chaque 4 jours au Canada; Hundreds of nonviolent immigration detainees sent to max-security jails as part of \u2018abhorrent\u2019 government program; Pressure mounts on Amazon, Microsoft, and Google against selling facial recognition to government, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, January 18, 2019<\/a>:\u00a0RCMP action against Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en places corporate interests over Indigenous rights; After 17-year fight against security certificate, Toronto man sues govt for $34M; As a former Iranian prisoner, I know Trudeau must save Saeed Malekpour; Rally at Global Affairs Canada: Cancel Saudi Weapons Deal, End ALL Weapons Exports; Saudi Use of Child Soldiers in Yemen: US Tax Dollars \u201cHelp Pay for It\u201d; Our Lawsuit Against the Trump Administration Revealed How It Lies About Terrorism; Kanji: The Uighurs remain forgotten in debates over human rights in China; 8-Year-Old Guatemalan Boy Dies in Border Patrol Custody Days After High Court Rejects Asylum Ban; Syria: US withdrawal does not erase Coalition\u2019s duty towards Raqqa\u2019s devastated civilians; Deciphering the extremism narrative; How the Iraqi crackdown on the Islamic State may actually increase support for the Islamic State; 17 Years Later, Guantanamo Prison Remains a Threat to Human Rights; Rubin: It\u2019ll be tough getting answers from Canada\u2019s new security and intelligence committee; Give Up the Ghost: A Backdoor by Another Name; Will Trump\u2019s AG Pick William Barr Face Questions over Gitmo, Mass Incarceration & NSA Surveillance?; \u2018Record number\u2019 of human rights defenders killed in 2018, and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, December 21, 2018<\/a>: Canadian Public Deserves Answers Over Problematic New National Security Report; Protecting Human Rights in Canada: Xan\u2019s Story; RCMP entrapment of B.C. couple was \u2018travesty of justice,\u2019 court rules; Another Canadian detained in China\u2026 since 2006; Bill C-21 is now law: CBSA can now collect exit data from all travelers from Canada to the US; What is the government hiding in the lawsuit against a security certificate?; Andrew Scheer\u2019s tweet disparages Omar Khadr; From Arizona to Yemen: How Bombs Built by Raytheon in Tucson Killed 31 Civilians in Yemeni Village; Justice for Jakelin: Lawmakers Demand Answers in Death of 7-Year-Old Girl in Border Patrol Custody; Almost 15,000 Migrant Children Now Held At Nearly Full Shelters; Anti-Muslim agitator gives video apology to owner of Paramount Fine Foods over \u2018jihadist\u2019 comments; Why New Laws Aren\u2019t Needed to Take Domestic Terrorism More Seriously; \u2018We\u2019 Did Not Miss the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism. You Did; Google\u2019s Earth: how the tech giant is helping the state spy on us; Glenn Greenwald: Congress Is Trying to Make It a Federal Crime to Participate in Boycott of Israel; Briton jailed in Turkey on terrorism charges flees bail back to UK; and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, December 14, 2018<\/a>: ICLMG: Canada is deporting a man to torture. Will we let that happen?; Canada failed to provide full redress for its involvement in torture of 5 Canadians, says UN CAT; Bill C-59 is moving on to Senate Committee; Time to Repair the Errors of the War on Terror; Polytechnique, 6 d\u00e9cembre 1989 : un premier attentat antif\u00e9ministe?; Tim McSorley\u2019s comments on news article: \u201d GCHQ boosts powers to launch mass data hacking\u201d; GCHQ Propose A \u2018Going Dark\u2019 Workaround That Creates The Same User Trust Problem Encryption Backdoors Do; U.S. Border Agents Fail to Delete Personal Data of Travelers After Electronic Searches, Watchdog Says; Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They\u2019re Not Keeping It Secret; Omar Khadr writes of hope for end to \u2018indefinite and potentially endless detention\u2019; Activists found guilty of terrorism-related offense for stopping U.K. migrant deportations; \u2018Terrorism\u2019 database cites \u2018Islamophobic\u2019 sources in Muslim profiles; UN human rights experts concerned about EU\u2019s online counter-terrorism proposal; Turkish anti-terror laws make lives of some impossible \u2013 Council of Europe commissioner; UN Review Should Help Children Caught in ISIS Conflict; and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, December 7, 2018<\/a>:\u00a0Two Minutes Against Torture: Stop Moe Harkat\u2019s Deportation!; A dark day for press freedom: Vice editorial response to Supreme Court of Canada ruling; Govt doc calls Unist\u2019ot\u2019en leader \u2018aboriginal extremist\u2019; UN Special Rapporteur: \u2018Counter-terrorism is devouring international law\u2019; COE Commissioner for Human Rights: Misuse of anti-terror legislation threatens free expression; U.S. Lethal Operations in Somalia Are On the Rise. But Are They Effective?; Canadian woman continues to fight to obtain a passport; Saudi friend of Khashoggi living in Canada thinks their texts led to journalist\u2019s killing; For China, Islam is a \u2018mental illness\u2019 that needs to be \u2018cured\u2019; Top court gives Israel even broader powers to use torture; Matthew Behrens on the terror of violence against women; Manifestation du G7: Les arr\u00eat\u00e9s poursuivent la police et la Ville; Le Canada soup\u00e7onn\u00e9 d\u2019\u00eatre responsable de la migration forc\u00e9e des Honduriens; Why this billboard in rural Ontario is calling for the release of a Honduran prisoner; Video: How Encryption Saves Lives and Fuels our Economy, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, November 30, 2018<\/a>:\u00a0Canadian lawyer & his refugee clients persecuted since hiding Snowden; UN CAT\u2019s review of Canada; Jail, House Arrest, and Fines for Pipeline Opponents; Canada\u2019s Saudi weapons sales a moral race to the bottom; Exclusive: Secret documents say Canada\u2019s no-fly list poses \u2018national security risk,\u2019 but a fix is still years away; RCMP officers given permission to break the law a record 73 times in 2017, report shows; Family Members and Allies of Mariano Abarca Denounce Nine Years of Impunity for His Assassination; Fears China\u2019s internment camps could spread as area home to Muslim minority signs \u2018anti-terror\u2019 deal; UK Home Office \u2018wrongly tried to deport 300 skilled migrants\u2019; Children \u2018Screaming and Coughing in the Mayhem\u2019 as Trump Border Patrol Fires Tear Gas Into Mexico; Families are still being separated at the border, months after \u201czero tolerance\u201d was reversed; Libert\u00e9, Egalit\u00e9, Absurdity: French anti-terror laws are robbing people of their freedom; New Law Could Give U.K. Unconstitutional Access to Americans\u2019 Personal Data, Human Rights Groups Warn; Unregulated intelligence sharing poses substantive risks to human rights and to the democratic rule of law; and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, November 23, 2018<\/a>:\u00a0No Fly List Kids and ICLMG on the Hill to push for a redress system; Podcast featuring Tim McSorley: Confronting the Canadian \u2018security\u2019 state; Video: Thank you to our Patrons!; Muslim Students Speak Out About Being Targeted By Canadian Spy Agency; Federal appeals court upholds ruling blocking CSIS from conducting certain forms of spying on foreign states; Trudeau plays cynical waiting game while children die in Yemen; Trump\u2019s Amoral Saudi Statement Is a Pure Expression of Decades-Old \u201cU.S. Values\u201d and Foreign Policy Orthodoxies; Jailed Saudi women\u2019s rights activists said to face electric shocks, beatings and other abuse; Federal Judge Blocks Trump\u2019s \u201cAsylum Ban,\u201d Saying President Can\u2019t Rewrite Immigration Laws; At Gitmo 9\/11 trial, prosecutor gives lurid details of CIA prisons. Defense says: Not enough; CIA explored using potential truth serum drug for post 9\/11 interrogations; Justin Trudeau Conflating BDS With Anti-Semitism Is Dangerous; Court rejects neo-Nazi\u2019s free speech defense in SPLC case; and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, November 16, 2018<\/a>:\u00a0Moe Harkat should not be deported to torture; Panel Discussion: Extradition after Diab; 500,000 Killed by US War on Terror; Canada stays mum on Saudi arms sales, CSIS chief hears Khashoggi recordings; Supreme Court hears case on migrant detainees\u2019 rights to challenge incarceration; ICE Is Imprisoning a Record 44,000 People; Iraq\u2019s So-Called \u201cISIS Families\u201d: Rounded up, Vilified, Forgotten; Canada rallies more than a dozen countries in calling on China to release \u2018arbitrarily\u2019 detained Muslims; Muslim Students\u2019 Association says executives receiving surprise visits from law enforcement; Holocaust survivor urges solidarity and justice; America\u2019s long and painful history of domestic terrorism against racial and religious minorities; Trump warns antifa: Opposition to you could be tougher and \u2018much more violent\u2019; How Nicaragua Uses Anti-Terror Laws Against Protesters to Suppress Dissent; University alerts students to danger of leftwing essay; and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, November 9, 2018<\/a>:\u00a0Canada should not collect all travelers\u2019 exit data, ICLMG tells Senate Committee; Stop the deportation of Moe Harkat; Ottawa rejects senators\u2019 demand to give greater weight to human rights in arms deals; Canada remains complicit in the war on Yemen; Editorial: Ottawa should press for release of Saeed Malekpour; Human Rights Under Attack: Gareth Peirce on The New Dark Age; Toronto human rights lawyer sounds the alarm on Canada\u2019s plans to use AI in immigration; Trump administration seeks to deny asylum to migrants who cross border illegally; Canada and United States not facing asylum seeker crisis: UNHCR official; Spy service says federal pipeline purchase seen as \u2018betrayal\u2019 by many opponents; Double standard emerges as activists see special airline boarding pass designation; Canada, Western countries condemn China at UN for repression of Muslims; Israel\u2019s Netanyahu Endorses Death Penalty for Palestinians Only; In a court filing, Edward Snowden says a report critical to an NSA lawsuit is authentic; EU: Leak reveals states are ready to put human rights defenders at risk to protect surveillance industry, and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, November 2, 2018<\/a>: Renewed calls for public inquiry as France pushes appeal decision in Hassan Diab case to next year; Peter MacKay signed off on Hassan Diab extradition with no guarantee officials would monitor trial, documents show; The Ottawa Raging Grannies sing to stop the deportation to torture of Moe Harkat!; CUPE team meets Mohamed Harkat!; Canadian resident jailed in Iran suffers heart attack, family says; Muskrat Falls Parliament Hill Direct Action: See Their Faces!; Court rejects secrecy bid in court case over alleged spying on anti-pipeline activists; Four sentenced to jail and taken into custody today for Trans Mountain pipeline opposition; Should Canada cancel its arms deal with Saudi Arabia? Yes; Canada has \u2018a legal obligation\u2019 to repatriate citizens who left to fight for ISIS, says UN rapporteur; Like His Boss, Pence Misleads Public About Terrorism and Immigration; Trump says he may send 15,000 troops to U.S.-Mexico border; Here Is a List of Far-Right Attackers Trump Inspired. Cesar Sayoc Wasn\u2019t the First \u2014 and Won\u2019t Be the Last; As Bolsonaro Threatens to Criminalize Protests, a New Resistance Movement Is Emerging in Brazil; Looking for Justice? Avoid Guantanamo; and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, October 26, 2018<\/a>: Watch live \u2013\u00a0The French Court of Appeal decision in Dr. Hassan Diab\u2019s case comes out today; The Ottawa Raging Grannies denounce Bill C-59, the National Security Act, 2017; Lawyers raise concerns over new Terrorist Activities Sanctions Act; Mother accused of violating injunction tells court she was supporting son\u2019s wish to resist Muskrat Falls; Ottawa eyes freezing permits for armoured vehicle sales to Saudis as it re-examines contract; Saudi airstrike kills 19 civilians, including children, near Yemeni city of Hodeida; The War on Terror is the Reign of Terror; Governments are starving Yemenis, fuelling black markets through anti-terror legislation; The U.N. Security Council\u2019s Outsized Role in Shaping Counter Terrorism Regulation and Its Impact on Human Rights; Mexico: Honduran caravan is not a security threat but a group of people with human rights; Swedish student who stopped deportation flight of Afghan asylum seeker to be prosecuted; The shrinking space for solidarity with migrants and refugees; MI5 can authorise agents to commit crimes, tribunal told; Counter-terror bill is a threat to press freedom, say campaigners; Australia: UN human rights expert warns proposed cybersecurity bill is too extreme; and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, October 19, 2018<\/a>:\u00a0ICLMG Submission to the UN Committee Against Torture; Canada Ignores Obligation to Investigate Omar Khadr Torture & Act to Prevent Future Abuses; Syria: A year after Raqqa, US-led Coalition\u2019s ongoing denials an insult to survivors; Anti-Terrorism Laws Increasingly Used to Target Indigenous Activists; Canada still selling armoured vehicles to Saudis despite \u2018concern\u2019 of missing journalist; RCMP investigate alleged Saudi agents spying on dissident\u2019s Montreal phone; Canada pension fund invests in US immigration detention firms; Canadian Charities Balk At Proposed Liberal Tax Changes; European Counter-Terrorism Approaches: A Slow and Insidious Erosion of Fundamental Rights; HRW criticizes new UK counter-terrorism bill; Police spies infiltrated UK leftwing groups for decades; China: Mass internment camps are places of punishment, not \u2018vocational training\u2019; As U.S.-Backed War in Yemen Raged,\u00a0UAE Hired U.S. Mercenaries to Kill Yemeni Leaders; Guantanamo prison to stay open at least 25 years: US admiral; and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, October 12, 2018<\/a>: Charges dropped against high flying Trans Mountain protestors; Canadian police favor mining interests over indigenous peoples; FBI Informant Spent Years Entrapping Muslim Men; US immigration policies resulted in thousands more family separations than previously disclosed; Kavanaugh\u2019s record hints at a potential Supreme Court shift on detainees, wartime powers; Egypt: Mass death sentence and unfair military trials will not deliver justice for victims of church bombings; China\u2019s Human Rights Abuses Against Uighurs in Xinjiang; Crown prince sought to lure Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia and detain him, U.S. intercepts show; Digital IDs Are More Dangerous Than You Think; Israel\u2019s Gabriella Blum Helped Write the Laws of Drone Warfare. Nearly Two Decades Later, She Has Regrets; and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, October 5, 2018<\/a>: Protectors Jailed Weeks After Trans Mountain Pipeline Quashed By Court; Standing Rock activist faces prison after officer shot him in the face; Saudi Arabia agents likely spying on dissident in Canada; Hassan Diab appeal decision delayed a month; Privacy experts alarmed by Five Eyes demand for \u2018backdoors\u2019 on tech devices; CRA suspends, fines major Islamic charity over concerns it may have \u2018provided resources\u2019 to armed militants; Worst Suspicions Confirmed: Government Reports Show Domestic Anti-Terrorism Efforts Target Minorities; 13,000 migrant children in detention: America\u2019s horrifying reality; Citing Trump\u2019s racism, a federal judge restores protections for immigrants feeling wars and disasters; A New AUMF Is Not a Solution to \u201cEndless War\u201d; L\u2019ONU va enqu\u00eater sur le g\u00e9nocide des Rohingya en Birmanie; La Cour d\u2019appel tranche en faveur du hijab au tribunal, and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, September 28, 2018<\/a>: An apology for Hassan Diab; MPs pass motions to call Rohingya killings a genocide & revoke Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s honorary citizenship; Feds want secrecy over court case on pipeline spy allegations; The UPR of Canada is a missed opportunity to escalate human rights commitments; Sulemaan Ahmed: La puck roule lentement pour nous; Ottawa\u2019s use of AI in immigration system has profound implications for human rights; Hungary upholds \u2018terrorism\u2019 conviction against Syrian refugee; Immigration detainee Ebrahim Toure finally free after more than five years; Undocumented Immigrant Faces a Choice: Become an Informant for ICE or Be Deported; Un Palestinien tu\u00e9 lors d\u2019affrontements \u00e0 la fronti\u00e8re entre Isra\u00ebl et Gaza; UK intelligence agency admits unlawfully spying on Privacy International; Citizens\u2019 group wants prosecution over CIA rendition program; Joe Robinson: Turkish court convicts former UK soldier, and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, September 21, 2018<\/a>:\u00a0Judge orders indefinite delay in CSIS compensation trial, orders Crown to pay legal costs; WATCH: The Ottawa panel discussion about Abousfian Abdelrazik\u2019s ordeal after the screening of short film The Long Way Home; Canada betrays its own citizens. Hassan Diab\u2019s case is among its most egregious: Neil Macdonald; Police violated people\u2019s right to protest during Quebec G7, report suggests; Federal prosecutors using expanded powers to target terrorist propaganda web content; Five-Eyes Intelligence Services Choose Surveillance Over Security; Muslim-American can sue over \u2018no-fly list\u2019: U.S. appeals court; Illegal protest or protecting the land? An Indigenous woman gets ready to face a Canadian court; Paterson and Waldman: Latest death in Canada Border Services custody shows\u00a0independent oversight needed; Detention of Migrant Children Has Skyrocketed to Highest Levels Ever; Sentinel Species: The Criminalization of Animal Rights Activists as \u2018Terrorists,\u2019 and What It Means for Civil Liberties in Trump\u2019s America; A Moment of Silence, Before I Start This Poem; 100,000 demand release of Syrian man convicted of \u2018terrorism\u2019 for throwing a few stones in Hungary; Study shows two-thirds of U.S. terrorism tied to right-wing extremists; Experts, advocates call on Trudeau to declare Rohingya crisis genocide; Egypt: Death sentences and heavy prison terms handed down in disgraceful mass trial.<\/p>\n

Unforeseen circumstances prevented us from sending a News Digest on September 13, 2018.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, September 7, 2018<\/a>:\u00a0Tim McSorley: Challenges, but no crisis at the border;\u00a0U.N. Peace Operations Should Get Off the Counter-Terror Bandwagon;\u00a0Trump suggests that protesting should be illegal;\u00a0Exclusive: U.N. Human Rights Experts Meet With Facebook on \u201cOverly Broad\u201d Definitions of Terrorist Content;\u00a0UN calls on China to free Uyghurs from \u2018re-education camps\u2019;\u00a0Trump\u2019s Guantanamo Plan Could Force Court Battle Over Legality Of ISIS War;\u00a0Saudi Arabia admits \u2018mistakes\u2019 in airstrike that killed 40 Yemeni children; New:\u00a0 Stop Mohamed Harkat\u2019s Deportation to Torture; and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, August 31st, 2018<\/a>: Sen. Harder won\u2019t testify in Abdelrazik case, but several other parliamentarians will;\u00a0China Declared Islam a Contagious Disease \u2013 and Quarantined 1 Million Muslims;\u00a0UN: In Battles Over Land Rights, Activists Branded as Criminals;\u00a0Canada\u2019s surveillance regime targets Indigenous peoples;\u00a0Nicaragua\u2019s New Anti-Terrorism Law Thwarts Protesters, Activists Say;\u00a0US denying passports to Hispanic Americans in South Texas;\u00a0Opinion \u2013 Due process: Guantanamo detainees should be released;\u00a0Pearl Eliadis: Charities, \u2018political activity\u2019 and free speech; and more.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, August 25th, 2018<\/a>:\u00a0ICLMG: External Review Into Case of Hassan Diab Falls Far Short; Rubin: Government stonewalling on Hassan Diab shows why we need a full inquiry; ICLMG Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau: Questions and Concerns about New Minister of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction; Feds launch consultations with Canadians wrongly flagged by no-fly list; NCCM\u2019s written submission to Canada\u2019s third Universal Periodic Review; One Million Muslim Uighurs Have Been Detained by China, the U.N. Says. Where\u2019s the Global Outrage?; \u2019Your Bombs Are Killing Victims Here\u2019: U.S.-Made Bomb Hit School Bus in Attack That Killed 40 Yemeni Children; AP Investigation: Behind the Scenes in Yemen, U.S.-Backed Saudi Coalition Is Working with al-Qaeda; Saudi Arabia: Appalling plan to execute female activist must be stopped; G7: le d\u00e9ploiement policier \u00e9tait excessif, selon un rapport; Anti-fascists say police post mugshots on Twitter to \u2018intimidate and silence\u2019; Women speak out against criminalization of land defenders, water protectors; Death of man in CBSA custody after altercation on plane requires independent investigation, rights watchdogs say; Trump administration says deportable immigrants can\u2019t go to the courts \u2014 even if their first amendments rights are violated; Lawyers on the Border Still Dealing With Fallout From Family Separations; Legitimizing Foreign Mass Surveillance in the European Court of Human Rights; China\u2019s Aggressive Surveillance Technology Will Spread Beyond Its Borders; Exclusive: U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger \u2013 sources; Google plans to launch censored search engine in China, leaked documents reveal.<\/p>\n

The News Digest was on hiatus until August 25th, 2018.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, July 27th, 2018<\/a>:\u00a0New ICLMG\u2019s issue paper on Canada\u2019s No-Fly List; Hassan Diab to boycott external review of his extradition to France; Police, spies and white supremacy: A brief history; How the writings of right-leaning pundits drove fear and hate after the Faisal Hussain tragedy; 2017, ann\u00e9e la plus meurtri\u00e8re pour les d\u00e9fenseurs de l\u2019environnement; UK intelligence and police using child spies in covert operations; The case against anti-terrorism laws;\u00a0Behind closed doors, Guant\u00e1namo secret court talks about the CIA, torture and rights;\u00a0Les arr\u00eat\u00e9-es du G7 : des conditions de lib\u00e9ration disproportionn\u00e9es<\/span>;\u00a0Gender rights hypocrisy, a Youtube ban, and anti-terrorism legislation used to crush dissent: A dark month in the MENA region;\u00a0Globe editorial: Conservative accusation of a border \u2018crisis\u2019 doesn\u2019t wash;\u00a0Civil society leaders call on Parliamentary Committee to Ensure Protection of Human Rights for Refugee Claimants crossing into Canada from the United States;\u00a0Audit of immigration detention review system reveals culture that favours incarceration;\u00a0Standing Up Against Deportation (video);\u00a0\u201cWhy Abolish\u00a0ICE\u00a0Doesn\u2019t Go Far Enough\u201d: Oscar Chac\u00f3n on the Roots of Trump\u2019s Immigration Crackdown;\u00a0While in ICE custody, thousands of migrants reported sexual abuse;\u00a0Statewatch Observatory: Creation of a centralised Justice & Home Affairs database is\u00a0\u201ca point of no return\u201d;\u00a0Saving the U.N. \u201cInternet Resolution\u201d from sharks circling in Geneva.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, July 20th, 2018<\/a>:\u00a0Public Inquiry for Hassan Diab is necessary; American-Made Bombs Are Killing Civilians in Yemen; Wife of beaten Mississauga man speaks out after attack; Tens of Thousands of Muslims Are Fleeing China; Lip Service Paid to Human Rights During UN Counterterrorism Week; Erdogan puts emergency state powers into law; The US and Canada are preparing for a new Standing Rock over the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline; Canada is giving credit to the false claim of a refugee crisis by creating a new ministry of Border Security, headed by Bill Blair; Most Trump Voters Wrongly Believe MS-13 Is A Threat To The Entire U.S.; UNHCR: Does Canada have a refugee crisis? No; CBSA to announce new alternatives to immigration detention; Will Parents Separated from Their Children at the Border Be Forced to Separate Again to Win Asylum?; 2017-18 Report on reviewing the Communications Security Establishment tabled in Parliament.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, July 13th, 2018<\/a>: Decision in Hassan Diab appeal delayed after sudden appearance of new evidence; Bill C-59 and the Former Bill C-22: Compromised Oversight and Continuing Threats to Non-Derogable Rights; Analysis of the 2017 Report of the Commissioner of the CSE, part II: The circumstances are always exceptional; Y\u00e9men : Amnesty International d\u00e9nonce des \u00ab crimes de guerre \u00bb dans des prisons secr\u00e8tes; Secret War: The U.S. Has Conducted 550 Drone Strikes in Libya Since 2011 \u2013 More Than in Somalia, Yemen, or Pakistan; Trump Administration: We Can Keep Guantanamo Prisoners Locked Up For 100 Years; Will an anti-terror law prevent school shootings?; UK counter-terror bill risks criminalising curiosity \u2013 watchdog; Turkey fires thousands of state employees in anti-terrorism purge; The Real-Life Consequences of the (Now Lawful) Travel Ban; White terror privilege: Trump Quietly Pardoned White Domestic Terrorists (video); Dossier sp\u00e9cial Droit de manifester \u2013 \u00c9ditorial; \u2018Unmasking Antifa Act\u2019: Proposed US law could send masked anti-fascist activists to prison for 15 years; Josh Paterson: Would you trust the Trump administration with your kids?; CIA-Linked Military Contractor Used Arizona \u201cBlack Site\u201d to Secretly Jail Dozens of Migrant Children; ICE Now Training Agents in Military Weaponry (video).<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, July 6th, 2018<\/a>:\u00a0Joe Clark, Monique B\u00e9gin and Ed Broadbent: There should be a fully independent public inquiry to prevent any repeat of the injustice done to Hassan Diab; Starving, bombing civilians in the name of \u2018fighting terrorism\u2019; Overdue US Admission that Civilians Were Killed in Syria Strike Is Still Insufficient; Britain\u2019s role in our torture and detention must be investigated; Federal \u201cCountering Violent Extremism\u201d Grants Focus on Minority Communities; The Travel Ban: Part of a Broad National Security Exceptionalism in U.S. Law; Civil Society Coalition calls for independent, external review into reports of misuse of Canadian military exports by Saudi Arabia; Canadian student arrested by Israeli forces for protesting Israeli demolition of Palestinian village; NEB seeks contractor to monitor \u2018vast amounts\u2019 of online chatter for potential security threats; The US is less safe than ever for refugees, evidence filed in court challenge shows; Federal court blocks Trump administration\u2019s arbitrary detention of asylum seekers; Concentration Camps in the U.S.: Andrea Pitzer Decries Tent Cities for Detaining Kids Without Trial; Demonising children at US and European borders; Face Recognition CEO Warns of Police Abuse; David Kaye, UN rapporteur on free speech: How to \u2018fix\u2019 social media without censorship.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, June 29th, 2018<\/a>: Tim McSorley: The Government Must Stop The Deportation Of Mohamed Harkat; CCIJ: Canada should end immunity for perpetrators of torture; Britain Abetted U.S. Torture of Terrorism Suspects, Parliament Finds; Featuring Xan Dagenais: Ottawa\u2019s push to share more border-crossing data with U.S. raising red flags over privacy; Nicaragua : nouvelles attaques des forces de l\u2019ordre; Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg condemns Trump\u2019s \u201cunrelenting attack on the Muslim religion and its follow\u00aders\u201d; Top levels of Myanmar military responsible for crimes against Rohingya, report finds; Mehdi Hasan: \u201cMuslim extremists? What about the Christian extremists who run the U.S. government while citing the Bible to justify kidnapping kids?\u201d; Deif and Neve: Why Canada should take in Snowden-linked asylum seekers; Trudeau must end the safe third country agreement with the U.S.; Report: ICE altered its risk assessment software to put all immigrants in detention; Judge orders US to reunite families separated at border within 30 days; There\u2019s no migration crisis \u2013 the crisis is political opportunism; Undercover cops wore masks at protests, Montreal public hearing told; New House Bill Would Empower Trump to Punish U.S. Companies that Boycott Israel; The Wiretap Rooms: The NSA\u2019s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities; The US Supreme Court Takes On the Police Use of Cellphone Records.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, June 22nd, 2018<\/a>:\u00a0Tim McSorley\u2019s comments on CBC\u2019s article: Some of CSIS\u2019s practices still fall outside the law: spy watchdog; Tim McSorley\u2019s comments on: Statement from CSIS Director on SIRC Annual Report; France told Canada key evidence did not exist in Hassan Diab terrorism case; Revealed: Canada uses massive US anti-terrorist database at borders; Matthew Behrens: Canada\u2019s diplomat of the year fails the torture test; Les cam\u00e9ras du G7 vous filment encore; The Government Has Yet to Produce Evidence Showing the Travel Ban is About National Security; Gormley: Canada, stop locking up migrant kids; Immigration lawyers used a Sesame Street reference to argue that Abdoul Abdi should be deported to Somalia; The US is no longer a \u2018safe\u2019 country for refugees \u2013 and Canada is complicit; \u201cZero Tolerance\u201d and the Detention of Children: Torture under International Law.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, June 15th, 2018<\/a>:\u00a0ICLMG: Government fails to protect rights as it rushes national security bill through second-reading; ICLMG\u2019s comments on states\u2019 recommendations for Canada\u2019s Universal Periodic Review; Targeted Killing Comes to Canada: Understanding Why We Need a Public Inquiry;\u00a0Exploring the wreck of the 2016-17 Office of the CSE Commissioner\u2019s report: Use\/retention of private communications up 25,653%; Public inquiry needed into professor\u2019s extradition; Ihsaan Gardee: \u2018Government Must Rebuild Trust with Canadian Muslims on National Security\u2019; In China\u2019s Far West, Companies Cash in on Surveillance Program That Targets Muslims; A G7 summit shrouded in fear and intimidation: Preliminary findings of the monitoring mission; Native American water protector becomes first to be sentenced to time in federal prison for DAPL protests; Israeli Troops Kill 4 Palestinians & Wound 600 More in Crackdown on Nonviolent Protest; Free expression in MENA: death by a thousand cuts; Vietnam\u2019s new cyber law \u2018will curb freedom of expression\u2019;\u00a0U.S.-Canada agreement on refugees is now unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, June 8th, 2018<\/a>:\u00a0Podcast featuring ICLMG: Surveillance, secret trials and Bill C-59\u2019s attack on the Charter; Monia Mazigh & Azeezah Kanji: The torturers\u2019 bargain: Crime and no punishment, but many rewards; Short Film \u201cDiscreet Airlift\u201d Documents the Struggle to Hold U.S. Officials Accountable for Torture; G7: des observateurs sur place pour documenter les violations des droits de la personne; Turkey: One year since the imprisonment of Taner K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7, demands for his release will not be silenced; Justin Brake wins 2018 PEN Canada\/Ken Filkow Prize for freedom of expression; U.S airstrikes violated international law in \u201cwar of annihilation\u201d in Raqqa, Syria, says Amnesty International; Students Push to Oust Nicaraguan President Ortega as Death Toll Rises Amid Bloody Police Crackdown; \u201cA Source of Positivity All the Time\u201d: Remembering Palestinian Medic Razan al-Najjar, Killed by\u00a0IDF; Saudi Arabia using anti-terror laws to detain and torture political dissidents, UN says; Environmental groups call on Northam to stop surveillance of anti-pipeline protesters; UK Anti-terrorism plans \u2018will make thoughtcrime a reality\u2019.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, June 1st, 2018<\/a>:\u00a0CUPE: Flawed Liberal anti-terror legislation adds new problems; Hassan Diab wants more than an independent review of his extradition; Featuring the ICLMG: Canada\u2019s high extradition rate spurs calls for reform; Foreign minister too often left in dark about overseas torture cases, says auditor; Romania and Lithuania knowingly hosted secret CIA jails, European court rules; NCCM Rep. comments on racial profiling by CBSA; France: UN expert says new terrorism laws may undermine fundamental rights and freedoms; Details about a secret police surveillance program in Ontario are emerging; Does China\u2019s digital police state have echoes in the West?; Federal government looks to AI in addressing issues with immigration system; UK suspends anti-terror rule used to deport migrants who made tax errors; \u2019We were using algorithms to catch and kill\u2019: U.S. whistleblower Chelsea Manning warns Montreal conference of perils of technology, data collection; Shoot to kill: Nicaragua\u2019s strategy to suppress protest; The fight to get Karen Spring into Honduran prison; Israel bill seeks to criminalize documentation of soldiers\u2019 actions; France\u2019s Creeping Terrorism Laws Restricting Free Speech.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, May 25, 2018<\/a>:\u00a0Tim McSorley: Liberals\u2019 Broken Promise To Fix National Security Laws Risks Our Rights; Canadian freed after 11 years in an Ethiopian jail calls for inquiry into Ottawa\u2019s response; Media can\u2019t be an arm of the police, Vice lawyer tells Supreme Court hearing; There must be accountability for torture: CIA\u2019s new Director & Canada\u2019s complicity; House votes to mandate investigation of U.S. involvement in Yemen\u2019s secret torture prisons; Palestinians Engaged in Nonviolent Protest. Israel Responded With a Massacre; Meet Tarek Loubani, the Canadian Doctor Shot by Israeli Forces Monday While Treating Gaza\u2019s Wounded; 15 Indigenous Land Protectors and Allies Arrested on Parliament Hill: Reports and Updates from Muskrat Falls National Day of Action; Black activist jailed for his Facebook posts speaks out about secret FBI surveillance; Environmentalists taking federal watchdog to court over diplomats\u2019 actions in Mexican murder case; Canadian\/U.S. delegation is detained and interrogated for 4 hours, while travelling to Honduras to advocate for political prisoners illegally jailed by U.S. and Canadian-backed regime; Policing Indigenous Movements in Canada (video); Amazon Teams Up With Law Enforcement to Deploy Dangerous New Face Recognition Technology; Ronald Deibert: Digital Security for Whom or What?; Vicky Mochama: Indefinite immigration detention is inhumane; ICE just abandoned its dream of \u2018extreme vetting\u2019 software that could predict whether a foreign visitor would become a terrorist.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, May 11, 2018<\/a>:\u00a0Political Policing, State Surveillance and Bill C-59; State Of Civil Liberties In Canada and RightsCon Hits Toronto with Tim McSorley; Yves Engler: Trudeau promotes Five Eyes spying as CSE gets more money; Open letter to Prime Minister Trudeau: We need a public, independent inquiry into the case of Dr. Hassan Diab; Canada\u2019s extradition process is broken; One person arrested, others detained during Muskrat Falls dam rally on Parliament Hill; RCMP files say \u201cviolent aboriginal extremists\u201d are undermining pipeline plans; Vicky Mochama: Police keeping close tabs on journalists and activists is cause for concern; It\u2019s time to abolish the inhumane Canada-U.S. deal on asylum-seekers; Nicaragua: State repressing demonstrators; From rural Ontario to Central America: a Canadian activist\u2019s plea for her spouse in prison in Honduras; Chile Under Fire For Jailing Mapuche Leaders as \u2018Terrorists\u2019; The American Psychological Association Speaks Out Against Gina Haspel; Canada has \u2018fallen behind\u2019 in powers to do battle over privacy with tech giants: UK official.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, May 4, 2018<\/a>:\u00a0What happened to Bill C-59 at Committee?;\u00a0Canada helped France dig up evidence to extradite Ottawa man later freed on terror charges; Monia Mazigh: Hassan Diab is another Canadian let down by our government;\u00a0Steven Zhou: You Don\u2019t Have To Talk About Muslims When You Talk About Mass Killings; As Supreme Court Weighs Travel Ban, Trump\u2019s Wider Anti-Muslim Agenda Proceeds Unchallenged;\u00a0Tim McSorley on article \u201cWhat does it take to lay terrorism charges? An internal government document explains the RCMP view\u201d;\u00a0What do incels, fascists and terrorists have in common? Violent misogyny;\u00a0Gaza : quatre Palestiniens tu\u00e9s par des tirs isra\u00e9liens lors de manifestations;\u00a0Faith leaders arrested at Kinder Morgan gates;\u00a0Journalist charged in criminal, civil courts wins press freedom prize;\u00a0Police monitored Black Lives Matter Toronto protesters in 2016, documents show;\u00a0Appeals court reinstates lawsuit by 3 men put on no-fly list.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, April 27,\u00a02018<\/a>:\u00a0Liberal-dominated committee rejecting many proposed changes to security bill;\u00a0Bissonnette a simul\u00e9 les sympt\u00f4mes d\u2019une psychose;\u00a0Time to revise the definition of national security; Jessica Valenti: When Misogynists Become Terrorists;\u00a0Syed Hassan & Azeezah Kanji: Don\u2019t Call Him a Terrorist;\u00a0Amnesty International Welcomes Canadian Citizen Bashir Makhtal\u2019s Release from Ethiopian Prison and Return to Canada;\u00a0Migrants: Qu\u00e9bec tient un discours irresponsable et dangereux, selon des experts;\u00a0To censor the internet, 10 countries use Canadian filtering technology, researchers say; RSF Index 2018: Hatred of journalism threatens democracies; Bill to restrict Trump\u2019s war powers would actually \u201cendorse a worldwide war on terror\u201d;\u00a0Secret Global Surveillance Networks: Intelligence Sharing Between Governments and the Need for Safeguards.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, April 20,\u00a02018<\/a>:\u00a0Amira Elghawaby: Quebec mosque killer epitomizes Islamophobia in its deadliest form;\u00a0Prime Minister Trudeau Must Take Action to Ensure Justice for Abousfian Abdelrazik; CSIS worked to thwart diplomatic efforts to secure Abdelrazik\u2019s release, documents suggest;\u00a0 Jim Bronskill: Long-secret watchdog report warned of \u2018undue pressure\u2019 from CSIS on Canadian detainees abroad;\u00a0Land and water defenders who blocked Kinder Morgan terminal now facing criminal contempt charges;\u00a0Private Networks, Public Importance: Reviewing the CSE\u2019s Private Network Cybersecurity Regime Under Bill C-59;\u00a0Why the Quebec City mosque shooting was terrorism; The Quebec Mosque Shooting Shows A Double Standard For Far-Right Extremism;\u00a0Iraq: Women and children with perceived ties to IS denied aid, sexually exploited and trapped in camps;\u00a0Assassination of H\u00e9ctor Manuel Choc Cuz, nephew of Angelica Choc;\u00a0The deportation of Lucy Francineth Granados: A symbol of Canada\u2019s rising anti-immigrant sentiment; From refugee to murder victim: how Canada failed Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam;\u00a0Former Gitmo Prisoner Moazzam Begg Explains How Torture & U.S.-Run Prisons Helped Give Birth to ISIS;\u00a0Data firm leaks 48 million user profiles it scraped from Facebook, LinkedIn, others;\u00a0MPs doubt Facebook\u2019s promises to improve data protection.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, April 13,\u00a02018<\/a>:\u00a0A new national security act for Canada;\u00a0The \u2018hidden\u2019 piece of the Liberal crime bill: police may get to skip court;\u00a0Quebec Mosque shooter told police he was motivated by Canada\u2019s immigration policies; How Facebook Played \u201cInstrumental\u201d Role in Rise of Burma\u2019s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign of Rohingya;\u00a0Palestinian Shot Dead by Israeli Troops Near Gaza Border, 34th in 2 Weeks; Statement of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, regarding the worsening situation in Gaza;\u00a0Seeing Gaza Through the Lens of Yaser Murtaja, a Palestinian Journalist Killed by Israel; Birmanie : la justice maintient les poursuites contre des journalistes de Reuters;\u00a0Palestinian Ahed Tamimi \u2018sexually harassed\u2019 during interrogations in Israel, lawyer says; Amnesty International to BC government: Avoid criminalization of pipeline protesters;\u00a0American-style deportation is happening in Canada; Detained, Then Violated;\u00a0Leftwing \u2018anarchist terror cell\u2019 is fiction, French judges rule;\u00a0Cops Around the Country Can Now Unlock iPhones, Records Show; Russia orders immediate block of Telegram messaging app;\u00a0Canada flagged Facebook\u2019s third-party app privacy problem way back in 2009; How to Tame Zuckerberg and Protect Democracy.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, April 5,\u00a02018<\/a>:\u00a0Tim McSorley & Micheal Vonn: What Canadians Need to Know about \u2018Fixing\u2019 National Security; D\u00e9claration de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile sur le projet de loi C-59, Loi concernant des questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale;\u00a0Christopher Parsons & Lex Gill: Hard questions for Canada\u2019s most secret agency;\u00a0Massacre in Gaza: Israeli Forces Open Fire on Palestinians, Killing 18, Wounding As Many As 1,700;\u00a0Over 3,000 Google Employees Signed a Letter Demanding Google Leave the \u2018Business of War\u2019; Civilian Casualties and Effectiveness of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen;\u00a0Another Airstrike in Kunduz, and More Civilian Deaths;\u00a0In deadly encounters with Toronto police, more than a third of victims are black;\u00a0Macedonia Issues Apology for Involvement in Torture by CIA;\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s new policies could make it harder for torture survivors to get asylum; Ex-Military, Intelligence, and Foreign Policy Officials: Travel Ban Harms National Security;\u00a0Muslims accused of plotting violence get seven times more media attention and four times longer sentences;\u00a0U.S.-backed Honduran government wants to use Facebook to crack down on journalists.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, March 29,\u00a02018<\/a>:\u00a0NCCM \u2018relieved\u2019 as Quebec Mosque attacker changes plea to guilty; Gerald Caplan: Never again? With Rohingya crisis, we\u2019re once again bystanders to horrific atrocities;\u00a0How White Terrorists Are Described vs Black Victims;\u00a0Who\u2019s to blame for a generation of angry white men?;\u00a0A 13-year-old boy and other Yemeni civilians were killed in U.S. drone strikes this month;\u00a0Journalist Justin Brake facing charges over Muskrat Falls protest coverage;\u00a0A Mexican family\u2019s search for justice continues in Ottawa following Canadian-mining related murder;\u00a0Pi\u00f1era Cracks Down on Mapuche with Anti-terrorist Law Reform; Boston Judge Acquits 13 Pipeline Protesters in Groundbreaking Decision;\u00a0Most aid charities\u2019 bank accounts impacted by counter-terrorism regulations, report finds;\u00a0Why An Encryption Backdoor for Just the \u201cGood Guys\u201d Won\u2019t Work;\u00a0No Longer Fit for Purpose: Why Canadian Privacy Law Needs an Update; Exclusive: Facebook Closes Security Flaws Found By The Tyee but weaknesses remain.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, March 23,\u00a02018<\/a>:\u00a0Looking at anti-terrorism Bill C-59 through the lens of racism, by NUPGE;\u00a0The Globalisation of Countering Violent Extremism Policies: Undermining human rights, instrumentalising civil society; Austin bomber: \u2018Challenged young man\u2019 or \u2018terrorist\u2019?;\u00a0\u201cIt Was a Crime\u201d: 15 Years After U.S. Invasion, Iraqis Still Face Trauma, Destruction & Violence;\u00a0Canada\u2019s arms deal with Saudi Arabia includes \u2018heavy assault\u2019 vehicles;\u00a0Hassan Diab\u2019s Lost Decade (video);\u00a0Journalist faces unprecedented criminal charges over coverage of Muskrat Falls protest;\u00a0The Assassination of Human Rights Activist Marielle Franco Was a Huge Loss for Brazil \u2013 and the World;\u00a0\u201cEnvironmental extremism\u201d or necessary response to climate emergency?; Ahed Tamimi gets eight months in prison after plea deal;\u00a0FBI tracked an activist involved with Black Lives Matter as they travelled across the U.S., documents show;\u00a0The UN Security Council, Global Watch Lists, Biometrics, and the Threat to the Rule of Law;\u00a0Americans have a constitutional right to boycott Israel;\u00a0The Cambridge Analytica files \u2018I made Steve Bannon\u2019s psychological warfare tool\u2019: meet the data war whistleblower; Some thoughts on Facebook\u2019s accountability in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, March 16,\u00a02018<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cShe Tortured Just for the Sake of Torture\u201d:CIA Whistleblower on Trump\u2019s New CIA Pick Gina Haspel;\u00a0Bigoted election campaigns, not terror attacks, drive anti-Muslim activity;\u00a0Package Bombs Are Killing People in Texas but Donald Trump Hasn\u2019t Said a Thing. There\u2019s a Reason for That.;\u00a0\u2018Attacks and killings\u2019: human rights activists at growing risk, study claims; Distressing terrorist accusations against UN expert on indigenous peoples\u2019 rights and indigenous leaders;\u00a0Canadian tech used to hack Turkish, Syrian internet users, report claims;\u00a0Criminal charges to proceed against reporter covering Muskrat Falls protests;\u00a0Ottawa\u2019s privacy watchdog wants limits on spies\u2019 information collecting powers;\u00a0No Fly List Kids: Making History (video);\u00a0The Law That Canada Must Change: Wrongfully Imprisoned Sociology Professor Talks Extradition; Immigration lawyers express support for CBSA watchdog;\u00a0The shameful attempt to deport a man who\u2019s been in Canada since childhood;\u00a0Politicians Campaign on Free Speech While Voting to Penalize Boycotts of Israel;\u00a0Geek Squad\u2019s Relationship with FBI Is Cozier Than We Thought.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, March 8,\u00a02018<\/a>: The Inherent Racism of National Security, a talk by Azeezah Kanji; Toronto police lied about using Stingray; Privacy Commissioner\u2019s opinion on Bill C-59; Trump and armed drones; RCMP \u2018sloppy\u2019 and \u2018negligent\u2019 in investigating Colten Boushie\u2019s death; Secret NYPD Files: Officers Can Lie And Brutally Beat People \u2013 And Still Keep Their Jobs; Canada mining murder in Mexico; Extradition law needs reconsideration; The danger of using data to prevent crimes before they occur; Alleged 9\/11 plotter\u2019s torture takes center stage in Guantanamo hearings; Now we know why defense attorneys quit the USS Cole case. They found a microphone; Maybe misogyny is the mental health crisis that gives us mass shooters (video); Stolen childhood: Life after prison for Palestinian minors, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, March 2,\u00a02018<\/a>: ICLMG\u2019s Press release: Funding of redress system just a first step towards addressing the problems with Canada\u2019s No Fly List;\u00a0RSF concerned by proposed reforms to Canada\u2019s National Security legislation;\u00a0Federal officials discussed raising alert level to highest level during Idle No More, book says;\u00a0Trudeau government spends millions on the mercenary firm formerly known as \u2018Blackwater\u2019;\u00a0Dix ans d\u2019enfer pour Hassan Diab. Il est temps de r\u00e9former la justice fran\u00e7aise; Immigration detainee Ebrahim Toure marks five years without freedom: \u2018What\u2019s going on with me is not right\u2019; Cruel & Unconstitutional: ACLU Denounces SCOTUS Ruling Approving Indefinite Immigrant Detention;\u00a0On eve of Ottawa terrorism trial, RCMP still working on disclosure;\u00a0The Powerful Global Spy Alliance You Never Knew Existed;\u00a0Microsoft\u2019s Supreme Court Case Has Big Implications for Data; \u00a0China using big data to detain people before crime is committed: report;\u00a0NSA Used Porn to \u201cBreak Down Detainees\u201d in Iraq \u2013 and Other Revelations from 297 Snowden Documents.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, February 22,\u00a02018<\/a>: Bill C-59:\u00a0Offensive Cyber Operations Endanger Us All;\u00a0Ottawa is \u2018blurring\u2019 lines on privacy as it looks for new ways to collect data: watchdog;\u00a0Shaun King: Another Mass Shooting. Another Case in Which Signs of White Violence Didn\u2019t Raise Alarms.;\u00a0\u2018We are going to be the last school shooting\u2019: Student survivors at Florida rally call for gun law changes; Men Are Responsible for Mass Shootings;\u00a0Matthew Behrens: Crimes of compassion, Iraq\u2019s long war and Canada\u2019s bloody hands;\u00a0Forced disappearances are on the rise as human rights violators cover their tracks; U.S.-trained police are hunting down and arresting protesters amid post-election crisis in Honduras;\u00a0Trump\u2019s Latest Travel Ban Suffers Blow From a Second Appeals Court;\u00a0Amnesty\u2019s annual report decries \u2018hate-filled rhetoric\u2019 of leaders, declining free speech.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, February 16,\u00a02018<\/a>:\u00a0NEW VIDEO: Bill C-59: Dangerous new mass surveillance powers;\u00a0Azeezah Kanji: The persistent gaslighting of Muslims about Islamophobia;\u00a0White Supremacists Claim Nikolas Cruz Trained With Them; Students Say He Wore Trump Hat in School;\u00a0Canada\u2019s Deadly Diplomacy and the Plight of Political Prisoners in Honduras;\u00a0Canada\u2019s institutions repeatedly failed former child refugee Abdoul Abdi; How ICE works to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans;\u00a0Panel: Darker Side of Digital: Human Rights Implications of Technology in Canada & Abroad;\u00a0Supreme Court fight could stir up fears of US spying overseas;\u00a0Governments want encryption backdoors: new report examines the legal and policy implications;\u00a0U.S. Intelligence Shuts Down Damning Report on Whistleblower Retaliation.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, February 8,\u00a02018<\/a>:\u00a0ICLMG, OpenMedia, CMLA & La Ligue\u2019s testimonies on Bill C-59 at the SECU committee;\u00a0OpenMedia video: The dangerous new spy powers in Bill C-59; Here\u2019s what you need to know about Canada\u2019s \u2018extraordinarily permissive\u2019 new spying laws;\u00a0NCCM welcomes the Heritage committee\u2019s recommendations on Islamophobia and systemic discrimination; 2018 Survey: Islamophobia in Canada, Still a Grave Problem;\u00a0Mexican Delegation Questions Role of Canadian Embassy in Complaint to Integrity Commissioner;\u00a0Canada selling helicopters to Philippines despite human rights concerns;\u00a0Political use of the word \u2018terrorism\u2019: \u2018Indigenous Terrorism\u2019 \u2013 The Post-Cold War New World Order;\u00a0Intercepted Podcast; Memo and Memoer \u2013 The Bipartisan Love Affair with Mass Surveillance; \u2018The Nunes Memo\u2019 Is Worthless Without the Warrant;\u00a0Lie after lie: What Colin Powell knew about Iraq 15 years ago and what he told the U.N.;\u00a0Bush-era officials warn keeping Guantanamo prison open may be $6bn error.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, February 1st,\u00a02018<\/a>:\u00a0Our Brief on Bill C-59, the National Security Act of 2017; Govt\u2019s Defence of Proposed CSE Act Falls Short; A national day of remembrance: 5 Lessons from the Qu\u00e9bec massacre; Why the Trudeau Govt Won\u2019t Designate a National Day against Islamophobia; Video Interview with Hassan Diab; Government memo on no fly list mistakes is of no help in fixing the problem; Trump Orders Guantanamo stays open and receives new prisoners; How Daesh was created by the U.S.\u00a0invasion of Iraq; Charge dropped, absolute discharge for jailed Muskrat Falls opponents; In a Major Free Speech Victory, a Federal Court Strikes Down a Law that Punishes Supporters of Israel Boycott; US to resume refugee admissions from 11 countries but will increase screenings; U.K. court finds government\u2019s surveillance powers unlawful.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, January 25,\u00a02018<\/a>:\u00a0ICLMG joins call for a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia;\u00a0Matthew Behrens: Trudeau government still targets Muslims as threats;\u00a0 Judge loosens some of Mohamed Harkat\u2019s release conditions;\u00a0Nine Things You Need to Know about Bill C-59;\u00a0U.S. Border Guards Are About To Receive Alarmingly Broad Powers On Canadian Soil;\u00a0Rise of the SWAT team: Routine police work in Canada is now militarized;\u00a0Charges dropped against 129 Trump inauguration protesters \u2013 but dozens still face prison;\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s travel ban heads back to the Supreme Court;\u00a0NSA deleted surveillance data it pledged to preserve.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, January 19,\u00a02018<\/a>:\u00a0Hassan Diab\u2019s press conference; Press release: Civil Liberties Coalition Welcomes the Release of Canadian Hassan Diab; A Decade Gone: A Statement from the Hassan Diab Support Community;\u00a0Critics fear the government\u2019s national security bill puts Canadians in the crosshairs; Editorial: New powers for Canadian spy agency alarming;\u00a0After 16 Years Without Trial, Guant\u00e1namo Inmates and Rights Groups Demand End to \u2018Unconscionable\u2019 Imprisonment;\u00a0We must overcome Islamophobia in 2018; Featuring ICLMG: Canada\u2019s spy agency continues to show up unannounced at people\u2019s workplaces and homes;\u00a0Your opinion on Omar Khadr may be rooted in Islamophobia;\u00a0Will Canada finally deal with its Afghan war skeletons?;\u00a0Canada failed Abdoul Abdi but it\u2019s not too late to do the right thing;\u00a0House Extends Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Privacy Safeguards;\u00a0Border Guards Looked Through Nearly 60 Percent More Electronic Devices in 2017 than in 2016;\u00a0A Trump decree is killing innocent civilians in Somalia;\u00a0Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments;\u00a0The Biggest Secret: James Risen on Life as a NY Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror;\u00a0Civil society and the clampdown on freedoms; Israel\u2019s New Blacklist of BDS-Supporting Groups Sparks Outrage;\u00a0We won! BC Supreme Court ends indefinite solitary confinement in federal prisons across Canada;\u00a0Create new watchdog to receive public complaints about border agency, RCMP, federal report recommends.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, December 21,\u00a02017<\/a>:\u00a0Canada\u2019s electronic spies will be able to launch cyber attacks with little oversight, report warns;\u00a0If you\u2019re not against torture, Mr. Trudeau, you\u2019re for it.;\u00a0Featuring ICLMG: \u2018This is an extremely regressive step\u2019: dozens protest Bill C-23 in Vancouver;\u00a0 Matthew Behrens: Islamophobia Rising: Gap Widens Between Trudeau\u2019s Rhetoric and Muslim Fears; L\u2019ONU d\u00e9nonce des \u00abop\u00e9rations planifi\u00e9es\u00bb de la Birmanie contre les Rohingya; An Unusually Deadly Year for Women Journalists Around the World, Report Finds;\u00a0\u00a0Sweden:\u2019Torture, rape and slavery in Libya must stop\u2019;\u00a0J20 protest trial latest: Anti-Trump activists found not guilty and avoid lengthy prison sentences;\u00a0Canada\u2019s spy agencies struggle to balance reconciliation with spying on Indigenous Peoples; Ethiopian Dissidents Targeted with New Commercial Spyware;\u00a0Law Enforcement Use of Social Media Data Analytics: Transparency Challenges;\u00a0Canada\u2019s solitary-confinement laws are unconstitutional, Ontario judge rules.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, December 15,\u00a02017<\/a>:\u00a0New video: Bill C-59: Does the new National Security Act Fix Bill C-51? NOPE; Intelligence reform needed to rebuild confidence, Muslim group tells MPs;\u00a015 years of Injustice for Moe Harkat; Canada\u2019s electronic spy agency and military get new orders to allow the sharing information gained by torture; Inmate torture continuing at Guantanamo Bay, UN expert says;\u00a0Featuring ICLMG: Canada granting US border agents \u2018expanded\u2019 powers;\u00a0French Prosecutor Concedes Credible Evidence Points to Diab\u2019s Innocence, but Asks for Trial;\u00a0Plus de 6 700 Rohingya tu\u00e9s en Birmanie, selon MSF; Hundreds of travelers had their Global Entry airport privileges revoked \u2013 lawyers say it\u2019s another Muslim Ban;\u00a0Federal Court grants organizations standing in legal challenge of Safe Third Country Agreement; Libya: European governments complicit in horrific abuse of refugees and migrants \u2013 report;\u00a0Up to 100,000 Canadians could be affected by no-fly list, research suggests;\u00a0Calgary man claims harassment by Canada\u2019s intelligence agency has left him destitute;\u00a0CSIS settles multimillion-dollar lawsuit with employees who claimed workplace Islamophobia, racism and homophobia;\u00a0Quebec needs law to protect media from police spying, inquiry finds.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, December 7,\u00a02017<\/a>:\u00a0Security bill needs safeguards to prevent \u2018a profile on all of us\u2019: privacy watchdog;\u00a0ICLMG Press Release Will Parliament throw Muslim and racialized groups under the bus in the rush for preclearance?; BCCLA reacts to passage of Preclearance bill; Ottawa author detained by U.S. border guards says system \u2018broken\u2019;\u00a0Early win for the B.C. Civil Liberties Association in pipeline protest spying case heading to Federal Court; Why does Canada spy on its own indigenous communities?;\u00a0All Muslims are often blamed for single acts of terror. Psychology explains how to stop it; US courts have been treating Muslims differently for a very long time;\u00a0Trump travel ban: supreme court allows enforcement as appeals proceed; African refugees bought, sold and murdered in Libya;\u00a0New Investigation Finds U.S. Special Forces Massacred Somali Civilians & Orchestrated a Cover-Up.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, November 30,\u00a02017<\/a>:\u00a0ICLMG in the media; Committee study of National Security Act began today; CCLA\u2019s Brenda McPhail & Lex Gill: More debate needed on national security reform bill;\u00a0Canada\u2019s spy agencies casting wider net on citizens\u2019 electronic data, parliamentary report says about Bill C-59;\u00a0Matthew Behrens: Kafka\u2019s Canada at 15: The secret trials of Mohamed Harkat;\u00a0Why Hassan Diab\u2019s ongoing incarceration in France is Canada\u2019s \u2018Dreyfus Affair\u2019;\u00a0Former MP to ask International Criminal Court to investigate Canada\u2019s Afghan war conduct;\u00a0Amira Elghawaby: Governments can and must do more to tackle hate; Trump Retweeted Anti-Muslim Videos Posted By Far-Right Group Britain First;\u00a0Why is Liberal senator\u2019s name on no-fly list?;\u00a0CSIS\u2019s ask for telecom subscriber info of possible future targets denied;\u00a0Interview: Canadian lawyer Joshua Blum on Chelsea Manning.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, November 23,\u00a02017<\/a>:\u00a0Tim McSorley on Bill C-59: Better than C-51, but that isn\u2019t saying much; ICLMG Issue Page on Bill C-59, the new National Security Act;\u00a0\u2018My life was ripped apart\u2019: Two Calgary Muslim men say CSIS wrongfully targeted them;\u00a0The Uncounted: New York Times Finds US Airstrikes Kill Far More Iraqi Civilians Than Pentagon Admits;\u00a0Trudeau Government Must Act after Striking Workers Murdered at Canadian-Owned Mine in Mexico;\u00a0Letter: Criminalization of freedom of expression and international solidarity in Peru; At First J20 Trial, Prosecution Falls Flat;\u00a0Muskrat Falls, Criminalization of Land and Water Protectors, and Colonialism;\u00a0\u2018Treated like a terrorist:\u2019 Edmontonians urge federal government to fix no-fly system;\u00a0Canada\u2019s Extradition Law Condemns Hassan Diab to a Kafkaesque Ordeal;\u00a0Mohamed Harkat seeks relaxation of strict monitoring;\u00a0Canada prepares for a new wave of refugees as Haitians flee Trump\u2019s America;\u00a0Amnesty International report: Rohingya trapped in dehumanising apartheid regime in Myanmar.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, November 17,\u00a02017<\/a>:\u00a0What\u2019s in Bill C-59? New oversight and review mechanisms \u2013 new video;\u00a0Canadian police spied on Indigenous protesters on Parliament Hill; CA Gov. Jerry Brown Tells Indigenous Activists Protesting Fracking He\u2019ll Put Them \u201cIn the Ground\u201d;\u00a0Psychiatrist says person named in security certificate, Mohamed Harkat, poses low risk of violence;\u00a0Canadian Hassan Diab remains in prison after French court blocks release for 8th time; Open Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Regarding Dr. Hassan Diab \u2013 you can still sign it!;\u00a0German newspaper publishes names of 33,000 refugees who died trying to reach Europe; Migrants are dying in detention centres: When will Canada act?;\u00a0Canadians Are Worried About NSA Spying But Don\u2019t Understand How It Happens; Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core;\u00a0Trump\u2019s speech causes more anti-Muslim hate crimes than terrorism, study shows; Embracing holy envy: \u2018Allahu Akbar\u2019.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, November 9,\u00a02017<\/a>:\u00a0The View Up Here webcast interviews ICLMG\u2019s Tim McSorley on Bill C-59, the new national security act;\u00a0Pillay: It was Canada\u2019s sloppy counter-terrorism that led to $31M payout; British-Canadian couple fear son being tortured in Syria, plead for Canada\u2019s help securing release;\u00a0Ex-Guantanamo detainee to sue Canada for $50M for alleged complicity in torture;\u00a0NCCM: Government must take \u201cconcrete steps\u201d to address human rights concerns inside CSIS;\u00a0Attentat de la rue Copernic : la remise en libert\u00e9 du principal suspect \u00e0 nouveau demand\u00e9e;\u00a0No-Fly List Kids call for action on a No-Fly List redress system on Parliament Hill;\u00a0\u2018No answers\u2019 a year after Soleiman Faqiri prison death; Reminder: Fundamental flaws will hinder work of National Security Committee;\u00a050-year-old woman dies in immigration detention; Unlawful death of refugees and migrants;\u00a0Shaun King: In Life and in Death, White Privilege Protected Texas Shooter Devin Kelley;\u00a0Quebec\u2019s face-covering law heads for constitutional challenge;\u00a0Europe\u2019s quiet offensive against people helping refugees; The undercover policing of political protest.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, November 2nd,\u00a02017<\/a>: Trudeau torture controls approach Orwellian stature;\u00a0Secret Spy Hearings;\u00a0Counter-terrorism measures are exacerbating racism and xenophobia, UN rights expert warns;\u00a0For Trump, October\u2019s two mass killings lead to very different responses; Twisting the narrative on mass violence;\u00a0Canadian prisoner in China has sentence reduced after \u2018re-education\u2019;\u00a0Emmanuel Macron\u2019s Anti-Terror Law Is a Throwback to the Bad Days of Colonialism;\u00a0Tillerson, Mattis: We don\u2019t need new war authorization to fight terror;\u00a0New York Suspect Must Not Be Sent to Guant\u00e1namo; Guant\u00e1namo tribunals face chaos as top defence lawyer punished for contempt;\u00a0 The Battle of Treaty Camp: Law enforcement descended on Standing Rock a year ago and changed the DAPL fight forever; Venezuela: Repression taken into people\u2019s living rooms as home raids surge;\u00a0Activists Acquitted in Effort to Prevent British Fighter Jet Delivery to Saudi Arabia;\u00a0How the U.K. prosecuted a student on terrorism charges for downloading a book.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, October 26,\u00a02017<\/a>:\u00a0ICLMG\u2019s video explainer: Breaking Down Bill C-59: The new National Security Act; Letter of support for Chelsey Manning to be allowed to enter Canada; \u2018No threat\u2019: Civil liberties groups support Chelsea Manning\u2019s bid to cross Canadian border; Canada\u2019s terror double standards; \u2018Why aren\u2019t we all with Somalia?\u2019; Ottawa pays $31.3M to Canadian men tortured in Syria; Secret evidence should not be allowed in civil cases; Judge slams Ottawa for delays over $35-million CSIS lawsuit alleging workplace Islamophobia, racism and homophobia; Quebec fights back against Islamic extremism by oppressing women and religious minorities; 8-year-old boy flagged as security threat takes the fight to clear his name to Ottawa;\u00a0More Than 150 Land Defenders Murdered So Far This Year;\u00a0Owen Jones: If my sister can be drawn into the anti-terror net, imagine the risk to others; Turkey: Court releases human rights defenders including Amnesty International\u2019s Turkey Director;\u00a0UK terrorism law expert warns government over plans for new legislation;\u00a0My Guant\u00e1namo Diary, Uncensored.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, October 18,\u00a02017<\/a>: \u2018You wonder what the government is trying to hide\u2019; Terrorism charges are only reserved for Muslims; Ottawa academic Hassan Diab still in legal limbo in Paris prison; In Myanmar, \u201cAnti-Terrorism\u201d Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing; Chile\u2019s still using Pinochet\u2019s anti-terrorist law against the Mapuche;\u00a0COINTELPRO 2? FBI Targets \u201cBlack Identity Extremists\u201d Despite Surge in White Supremacist Violence;\u00a0Acute Human Rights Crisis in Mexico Must Become a Priority for Canada, Visiting Mexican Rights Advocates Say;\u00a0I am in Guant\u00e1namo Bay. The US government is starving me to death; Trump wants to ease rules so Canada can buy armed Predator drones worth $1 billion; Hawaii judge blocks latest Trump travel ban with hours to spare; Treatment of kids under Aussie anti-terrorism laws an over-reach: ABA.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, October 12,\u00a02017<\/a>:\u00a0ICLMG\u2019s submission for Canada\u2019s UPR; The Canadian Museum of Human Rights: The missing stories; RCMP officers screened Quebec border crossers on religion and values, questionnaire shows; Why terrorism charges won\u2019t be filed in deadly Quebec mosque attack; The airport bomber from last week you never heard about; UN experts urge Chile not to use anti-terrorism law against Mapuche indigenous peoples; FBI terrorism unit says \u2018black identity extremists\u2019 pose a violent threat; An insider\u2019s view of Guant\u00e1namo: conspiracy to torture; Supreme Court Rejects Guantanamo Inmate, Won\u2019t Curb Military Commission;\u00a0Inside the CIA\u2019s black site torture room;\u00a0Security concerns rise as police find surveillance device intercepted private text messages;\u00a0Watchdog report gives CSIS a pass, but flags concerns; Bid to quash review of Hill attack raid disappointing, says lawyer;\u00a0CSIS and RCMP accused of entrapping terrorism suspects;\u00a0Feds Want a More Restrictive Transparency Regime.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, October 5,\u00a02017<\/a>: NCCM: Decision not to charge Quebec mosque shooter with terrorism \u201cdeeply concerning\u201d; The White Privilege of the \u201cLone Wolf\u201d Shooter; Las Vegas, Edmonton reveal futility of obsessing about what constitutes \u2018terrorism\u2019; White American men are a bigger domestic terrorist threat than Muslim foreigners; Rescuers Say 28 Civilians Die in Airstrikes on Idlib Province; European govts return nearly 10,000 Afghans to risk of death and torture; Turns out Goodale\u2019s tolerance for torture is almost as high as Harper\u2019s; Trudeau government taken to court over alleged spying during Harper years; Watchdog dismisses environmental spying complaint, prompting appeal;\u00a0Christopher Parsons: The new surveillance state;\u00a0Ottawa passes legislation to protect journalists\u2019 anonymous sources from police, thanks to pressure from civil society,\u00a0French MPs back controversial anti-terror bill;\u00a0Trump administration lobbying hard for return of sweeping surveillance law;\u00a0The Long Reach of Guant\u00e1namo Bay Military Commissions.<\/span><\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, September 28,\u00a02017<\/a>: New Ministerial Direction falls short on fulfilling goal of preventing the sharing, requesting or use of information tied to torture; New National Security Act Falls Short, Even By Liberals\u2019 Own Standards; Joint letter to the Canadian government on its proposals to reform the ATIA; Diab\u2019s supporters send parliamentary petition and open letter to PM Trudeau; Sixteen Years into the \u201cWar on Terror\u201d and Institutionalized Islamophobia Lives on; Chelsea Manning says she\u2019s been denied entry into Canada; Activist found guilty of terror-related crime for refusing to disclose passwords to UK police; Dozens of civilians killed when U.S. bombed a school and a market in Syria;\u00a0France \u2013 Les assignations \u00e0 r\u00e9sidence hors \u00e9tat d\u2019urgence vot\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e;\u00a0Adam Serwer: The greatest threats to free speech in America come from the state, not from activists on college campuses.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, September 21,\u00a02017<\/a>:\u00a0National Security Bill C-59 Fails to Reverse C-51 and Introduces Serious New Problems; Torture and interrogation the CSIS and RCMP way; Is bigotry blinding CSIS and the RCMP \u2013 to disastrous effect?; OPC review on the CBSA\u2019s Scenario Based Targeting Program; Google stops challenging most US warrants for data on overseas servers; OPC \u2018very concerned\u2019 about U.S. border phone searches; Privacy Commissioner\u2019s report calls on the RCMP to increase transparency around the use of cellphone surveillance tools;\u00a0Privacy International calls for greater transparency around secretive intelligence sharing between governments;\u00a0Put him on trial or send him home: Michael Enright on the appalling treatment of Hassan Diab;\u00a0Is your child on the Canadian False Positive List?;\u00a0Cameroon using \u2018anti-terror\u2019 law to silence media: CPJ;\u00a0Advocates Warn All Rohingya May Be Driven Out of Burma If Military\u2019s Ethnic Cleansing Continues;\u00a0U.S. embassy memos offer glimpse into the \u201cdevastated\u201d lives of refugees rejected by the Travel Ban;\u00a0Distrustful U.S. allies force spy agency to back down in encryption fight.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, September 14,\u00a02017<\/a>:\u00a0The US Senate just rubber-stamped the 15-year war on terror, again; CSEC\u2019s rigged election scare an excuse to invade our privacy; The RCMP Has Been Using Surveillance Gear Under an \u2018Interim\u2019 Policy for 6 Years; Secret Government of Canada data stored on U.S. servers? Memo raises possibility; Canadian held in US prison for role in anti-Trump protest; Comprendre la crise des Rohingya en Birmanie; The twisted politics of terrorism in Myanmar; France : les risques de l\u2019\u00e9tat d\u2019urgence permanent; Bahrain: A year of brutal government repression to crush dissent; Togo latest country to lose web access as regimes increasingly shut down Internet to control protests;\u00a0Judge: Challenge to government watch list can go forward;\u00a0ACLU and EFF Sue Trump Administration Over Cell Phone Searches at the Border;\u00a0Etats-Unis : la Cour supr\u00eame maintient l\u2019interdiction d\u2019entr\u00e9e des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s;\u00a0Keeping Guant\u00e1namo Bay open damages our national security;\u00a0How the NSA built a secret surveillance network for Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, September 7,\u00a02017<\/a>:\u00a0We did it! Now what?; CBSA sharing info on American border crossings with US, featuring ICLMG, Statement on Latest Violence against the Rohingya Population in Burma; Le racisme syst\u00e9mique\u2026 parlons-en!; Greenpeace & Indigenous Water Protectors Respond to Lawsuit Accusing DAPL Activists of Eco-Terrorism; Lawsuit: Police Targeted Black Lives Matter Alongside Violent, Terrorist \u2018Gangs\u2019; Trump Orders Military To Give Cops Free Grenade Launchers, Bayonets, And Tanks; Terrorism isn\u2019t as big as you think; UN calls out Ottawa over lengthy immigration detention stays; Omar Khadr and values in a time of \u2018war\u2019; Normalizing torture.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, August 31,\u00a02017<\/a>:\u00a0Canadians Muslims to celebrate Eid as hate incidents continue to rise, says NCCM; Aung Sang Suu Kyi\u2019s office accuses aid workers of helping \u2018terrorists\u2019 in Myanmar; Entire families are being killed by U.S. airstrikes in Raqqa, Syria; Why should Canada support Palestinian refugees?; A Public Appeal for Solidarity with Omar Ben Ali; Israel only country in the world to systematically prosecute children under military law; $134-million claim against Khadr should be thrown out; Jaggi Singh dit avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 victime d\u2019un \u00abspectacle l\u00e9gal\u00bb; Why rabbis like me oppose Israel\u2019s ban on BDS activists,\u00a0ICE Plans to Start Destroying Records of Immigrant Abuse, Including Sexual Assault and Deaths in Custody;\u00a0Market Forces: A report on the development of the EU security-industrial complex.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, August 24,\u00a02017<\/a>:\u00a0L\u2019extr\u00eame droite d\u2019hier \u00e0 aujourd\u2019hui; As Muslims Condemn Spain Attack, Americans Must Denounce U.S. Killings in Syria, Iraq; Reflection on the fight against racism in Canada; Borders: The Global Caste System; Trump may not finish his term but the assassination complex will live on; Trapped in Raqqa: Amnesty Says Civilians Caught in \u201cDeadly Labyrinth\u201d As U.S. Intensifies Airstrikes; The Taliban tried to surrender and the U.S. rebuffed them. Now here we are; Galway human rights academic identifies clear violation of basic human rights at Guant\u00e1namo Bay; Terror laws should be scrapped, says UK Government\u2019s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation;\u00a0The U.S. spy hub in the heart of Australia;\u00a0I was detained for protesting against Donald Trump. Here\u2019s what the US Secret Service asked me.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, August 17,\u00a02017<\/a>:\u00a0ICLMG Editorial: A response to the Globe on Bill C-23; TONIGHT: Time for an honest discussion of torture and Guantanamo; Here\u2019s why allegations of CSIS\u2019 homophobia and racism should concern all Canadians; \u2018Why is this man in prison?\u2019, judge asks govt lawyer in immigration detention case; Former PM Paul Martin regrets govt\u2019s handling of Omar Khadr case; Charlottesville is Latest Chapter in Long U.S. History of White Supremacist Terror; Why The Government Can\u2019t Bring Terrorism Charges In Charlottesville;\u00a0Building America\u2019s Trust Act would amp up privacy concerns at the border; Updating \u2018briefcase law\u2019: defence lawyers try to end warrantless smartphone searches at border;\u00a0This Groups Has Successfully Converted White Supremacists Using Compassion. Trump Defunded It;\u00a0US government demands details on all visitors to anti-Trump protest website;\u00a0On ne plaisante pas au Cameroun : trois lyc\u00e9ens en prison pour une blague par SMS font appel;\u00a0Did Americans Know About Torture at Africa\u2019s \u2018Guantanamo\u2019?;\u00a0Settlement reached in ACLU lawsuit against CIA interrogation;\u00a0<\/span>Fearful villagers see the US using Afghanistan as a \u201cplayground for their weapons\u201d.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, August 10,\u00a02017<\/a>: The Canadian government needs to clean up its act; Canadians avoiding debate on role in war on terror; Jim Learning accused of breaking house arrest; Montreal professor renews legal effort to block Canadian combat vehicle exports to Saudi Arabia; TransLink Increasingly Sharing Riders\u2019 Personal Information With Police; Head of Bombed Minnesota Mosque Denounces Trump for Stoking Hate & Violence Against Somali Community;\u00a0Trump signals cuts to unpopular \u201cCountering Extremism\u201d programs but worse could be coming;\u00a0Surveillance and the Global Turn to Authoritarianism;\u00a0These are the technology firms lining up to build Trump\u2019s \u201cextreme vetting\u201d program;\u00a0Pourquoi la mission du navire antimigrants en M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e est ill\u00e9gale.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, August 3,\u00a02017<\/a>:\u00a0NAFTA negotiations put Canadians\u2019 personal data on the table \u2013 featuring the ICLMG; Repatriate Hassan Diab and reform our unbalanced extradition law; Here\u2019s the one question your angry MP can\u2019t answer about Omar Khadr; Goodale must investigate racism allegations against CSIS; Muskrat Falls activists released amid protests; Feds Crack Trump Protesters\u2019 Phones to Charge Them With Felony Rioting; After Saudi video, Canada has a choice to make on human rights;\u00a0Travel delays for B.C. family who says daughter\u2019s name on no-fly list;\u00a0What the death of a mentally ill inmate tells us about Canadian justice;\u00a0French Anti-Terror Bill Threatens To Extend State of Emergency Abuses;\u00a0Slain activist\u2019s lawyers latest known targets of spyware sold to Mexican government;\u00a0Trump Considers Prolonging Afghan War to Secure $1 Trillion in Untapped Mineral Deposits.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, July 27, 2017<\/a>:\u00a0Government must take action on shocking, disturbing allegations of discrimination and racism within ranks of CSIS, says ICLMG; Omar Khadr forced to surf wave of Canadian racism; \u2018I\u2019m on Team Human\u2019: U.S. medic who saved Omar Khadr\u2019s life says he did right thing; Condemnations of Khadr reek of double standards; U.S.-bound travellers to face \u2018enhanced security measures\u2019 at all Canadian airports; The agreement envisaged between the EU & Canada on the transfer of Passenger data may not be concluded in its current form, the court says; Immigration detainees can be jailed indefinitely, federal judge rules; Trump Travel Ban Must Exempt Grandparents After Supreme Court Rebuff; Amnesty Accuses U.S. Coalition of War Crimes in Mosul: Scale of Death Much Higher Than Acknowledged;\u00a0U.S. Lawmakers Seek to Criminally Outlaw Support for Boycott Campaign Against Israel;\u00a0Alex Neve: Stop the silence. We need to tackle Turkey\u2019s human rights crisis.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, July 13, 2017<\/a>:\u00a0Omar Khadr apology and compensation long overdue, but systemic changes are also needed to protect human rights, says ICLMG & Rideau Institute; What if Omar Khadr isn\u2019t guilty?; Rom\u00e9o Dallaire & Alex Neve: Canada failed Omar Khadr. We owed him compensation and an apology; Ottawa must seek justice for Hassan Diab; Absurd \u2018terrorism\u2019 investigation launched into Amnesty\u2019s Turkey Director and nine others; Why am I facing 75 years in prison for protesting Trump?; Berta C\u00e1ceres\u2019s Daughter Speaks Out After Surviving Assassination Attempt in Honduras;\u00a0Emboldened by Trump, US border officials are lying to asylum seekers and turning them away;\u00a0Devastation in Mosul: Iraq Seizes City from ISIS, But Battle Left Thousands Dead & 700,000 Displaced;\u00a0The Snooper\u2019s Charter is being taken to court to stop mass surveillance powers.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, July 6, 2017<\/a>: Redress for Omar Khadr is welcome and long overdue; Coalition Objects to Renewed Calls for Weaker Encryption Following \u2018Five Eyes\u2019 Ottawa Meeting; Legal challenge of Safe Third Country Agreement launched; Liberals\u2019 Neglect Of Hassan Diab A Scar On Canada\u2019s History; Une famille mexicaine d\u00e9nonce la mort d\u2019un militant qui luttait contre une mini\u00e8re canadienne; Canada at War: How Two Decades of Conflict Have Changed a Country;\u00a0Law Enforcement is Still Used as a Colonial Tool in Indian Country;\u00a0Terror attacks receive five times more media coverage if perpetrator is Muslim, study finds;\u00a0Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently: Syrian Citizen Journalists Document a City Under Siege;\u00a0With a single wiretap order, US authorities listened in on 3.3 million phone calls.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, June 29, 2017<\/a>: Three Ways Trudeau\u2019s Liberals Have Let Down Open Government Advocates; Nine arrested after RCMP blocks teepee raising on Parliament Hill; Calling Islamophobic violence \u2018terrorism\u2019 won\u2019t make Muslims safe: Kanji; Muslim leaders urge government to help protect mosques, schools; Safe Third Country Agreement must be suspended; Supreme Court Allows Part of Trump Travel Ban to Take Effect Before Ruling on Constitutionality; Trudeau must speak out on Hassan Diab; Homeland Security Will Begin \u201cHeightened Screening\u201d of Phones on All US-Bound Flights;\u00a0Postponed transparency bill does little to promote access while government increases secrecy.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, June 22, 2017<\/a>:\u00a0Press release: Bill C-59: Canadian government misses opportunity for bold action on civil liberties;\u00a0Press release: Fundamental flaws will hinder work of National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians;\u00a0France accused of violating human rights by group lobbying for academic Hassan Diab\u2019s release;\u00a0Monia Mazigh: There\u2019s No Justifying Canada\u2019s Flawed Counter-Radicalization Plan;\u00a0Heated exchange over legal rights as lawyers battle to have refugee claimant let out of jail;\u00a0Police lied to obtain warrants, Quebec journalists testify at inquiry;\u00a0Why the Government\u2019s ATI Reform Bill is a Promise Broken: Proactive Disclosure \u2260 Access to Information;\u00a0The Pentagon says one civilian died in drone strike on Syrian mosque. Witnesses say it killed dozens.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, June 15, 2017<\/a>:\u00a0Preclearance agreement trumps protection of travelers from Canada to U.S.; Our National Coordinator on Bill C-22 and holding Canadian intelligence agencies accountable; Canada\u2019s anti-terrorism overhaul is coming Tuesday; Beatrice Hunter released from jail, allowed to protest outside Muskrat Falls gate; Ethics commissioner acknowledges Sajjan downplayed his role and knowledge of Afghan detainee issue; Hate crimes against Muslims in Canada increase 253% over 4 years;\u00a0Canadian man found not guilty on Algerian terror charges he says were based on intelligence from Canada;\u00a0CSIS kept \u2018all\u2019 metadata on third parties for a decade, top secret memo says;\u00a0Trump Loses Travel Ban Ruling in Appeals Court;\u00a0Rep. Barbara Lee: In Expanding Global Wars, Trump Is Creating More Havoc and Chaos & Has No Strategy;\u00a0Yves Engler: Canada\u2019s Increased Military Budget Will Fuel the US War Machine.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, June 8, 2017<\/a>:\u00a0Trudeau government broke privacy rules with expanded spy program; Woman arrested in Muskrat Falls protest moved to men\u2019s prison more than 1000 km from home; Anti-Trump protester: \u2018Is this my last free birthday?\u2019; Trump supporters are calling for Muslim internment camps; Applying for a US Visa? Better Watch What You Post;\u00a0May: I\u2019ll rip up human rights laws that impede new terror legislation;\u00a0Lawyer for Tortured Detainees: U.S. Created ISIS Through Misguided Detention, Interrogation Policies;\u00a0US-led coalition admits killing at least 484 civilians in air strikes against Isis in Syria and Iraq;\u00a0Canada does Trump\u2019s bidding with massive new defence spending.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, June 1st, 2017<\/a>:\u00a0Our reaction & highlights from the govt\u2019s report on the national security consultation; Civil liberties groups call for urgent changes to preclearance rules; Asylum agreement with U.S. to blame for woman\u2019s death near border; Bound. Tortured. Killed; Canada just increased data sharing with international spy partners; Inuit grandmother jailed after refusing to stay away from Muskrat Falls;\u00a0UK\u2019s \u2018Big Brother\u2019 anti-terror strategy is flawed, U.N. expert says;\u00a0Canadian executives demanding action on no-fly list glitches;\u00a0White Terrorists Killed More Americans This Week Than Refugees Have in 40 Years;\u00a0US admits Mosul airstrikes killed over 100 civilians during battle with Daesh;\u00a0Jeremy Corbyn links foreign policy to growing terror threat.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, May 25, 2017<\/a>:\u00a0Canadians prefer privacy over more police powers, govt finds; MiningWatch Canada Launches Legal Action Against Arbitrary Detention in Peru; How a Canadian professor\u2019s life became a horror show: Fahmy; Migrant Rescue off Libya: \u2018Mostly Toddlers\u2019 Among 31 Drowned; The impact of international counter-terrorism on civil society organisations; Let\u2019s delete Islamic\/Islamist labels for terrorists; Past month \u2018deadliest on record\u2019 for Syrian civilians killed in US-led air strikes;\u00a0Morts, bless\u00e9s et arrestations lors d\u2019une manifestation \u00e0 Bahre\u00efn;\u00a0L\u2019Egypte bloque le site d\u2019Al-Jazeera et d\u2019autres m\u00e9dias qui ne lui sont pas favorables.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, May 18, 2017<\/a>:\u00a0RCMP labels anti-torture caravan a \u2018Criminal Act by Terrorists\u2019; Canada\u2019s spies collude with the energy sector; Preclearance bill C-23 will spell border-crossing problems; VIDEO: Security ejects partner of Canadian imprisoned abroad from Prime Minister\u2019s offices; Immigration detention is unconstitutional, lawyers argue in Federal Court;\u00a0Amnesty: Attacks on human rights activists reach crisis point globally; Detained and accused in Peru, Canadian activist suspects foul play;\u00a0Chelsea Manning Is a Free Woman: Her Heroism Has Expanded Beyond Her Initial Whistleblowing;\u00a0Independent monitoring in store for Canada Border Services Agency.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, May 11, 2017<\/a>: RCMP and CSIS snoop on green activists; RCMP created, then abandoned metadata-crunching tool to extract criminal intelligence; Open Letter to Trudeau on Press Freedom; Des radicaux aussi chez les catholiques; White Male Terrorists Are an Issue We Should Discuss; Bill C-23, Preclearance Act 2016; Key parts of citizenship revocation process struck down; Chelsea Manning to be released from prison this week.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, May 4, 2017<\/a>: Harjit Sajjan accused of downplaying role in Afghan war in attempt to thwart investigation; French prosecution of Canadian Hassan Diab a travesty; Jailed 7 years by Canada, Kashif Ali now walks free; CJFE\u2019s Review of Free Expression in Canada; Anti-terror rules are blocking aid to conflict zones; Lift political gag order on charities, says panel report; Senate passes bill that repeals many Conservative citizenship changes;\u00a0NSA backs down on major surveillance program that captured Americans\u2019 communications without a warrant.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, April 27, 2017<\/a>:\u00a0Press conference: Groups call on the Prime Minister to press for the release and return of Hassan Diab;\u00a0MiningWatch Canada Staff Member, US Journalist Arbitrarily Detained in Peru over Documentary About Hudbay Minerals\u2019 Operations;\u00a0Depuis janvier, plus d\u2019un millier de migrants sont morts en M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e; Border towns quietly mobilizing to help asylum-seekers coming to Canada;\u00a0Cameroon: Reporter Ahmed Abba to Appeal 10-Year Terrorism Sentence; Press freedom on the decline: Canada drops from the top 20;\u00a0Commissioner for Human Rights: The Shrinking Space for Human Rights Organisations;\u00a0Matthew Legge: From National to Shared Security;\u00a0Controversial CSIS-run data crunching centre worries privacy czar, documents show;\u00a0Border officials float big ideas for mining social media;\u00a0U.S. Bombed a Mosque in Syria, Killing Dozens of Civilians, Investigators Conclude;\u00a0In secret court hearing, lawyer objected to FBI sifting through NSA data like it was Google.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, April 20, 2017<\/a>: Ottawa has even more reason to fix security law; Attack on Digital Privacy Rights of Canadians; CSIS officials, counsel learning to share information with courts; Trudeau government undercuts transparency, while reinforcing secrecy; La Commission d\u2019acc\u00e8s \u00e0 l\u2019information \u00ab pr\u00e9occup\u00e9e \u00bb par ce qu\u2019elle entend \u00e0 la commission Chamberland; Groups Decry Trump Plan to Demand Social Media Passwords at US Border,\u00a0Omar Khadr\u2019s criminal record in Canada shows \u2018absolute ignorance\u2019: lawyer,\u00a0Islamophobia persistent in the media, journalist,\u00a0Land protectors see renewed support in wake of new charges; Court defends political dissent after N.L. man sent to psychiatric hospital for criticizing police shooting,\u00a0\u201cMother of All Bombs\u201d Never Used Before Due to Civilian Casualty Concerns.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, April 13, 2017<\/a>:\u00a0Canada\u2019s immigration detainees being locked up based on dodgy risk assessments, Star finds;\u00a0Monia Mazigh: Omar Khadr\u2019s Case A Black Stamp On Canada\u2019s Human Rights Record;\u00a0Cellphone surveillance technology being used by local police across Canada;\u00a0Protection des sources: le projet de loi adopt\u00e9 au S\u00e9nat;\u00a0Communications companies receive thousands of requests from Quebec police;\u00a0Securing our Digital Economy; OpenMedia: Do you know where your data is?;\u00a0New US bill aims to ban warrantless phone searches at the border;\u00a0Ottawa tight-lipped on delay to improving no-fly list;\u00a0Police oversight isn\u2019t broken, it was built this way: Cole.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, April 6, 2017<\/a>:\u00a0Press release: Senate must act to strengthen national security oversight;\u00a0Matthew Behrens: Apologies for torture seem to be the hardest words;\u00a0Ottawa academic\u2019s release ordered from Paris jail for fifth time \u2013 prosecutors quickly block move;\u00a0Devices that track, spy on cellphones found at Montreal\u2019s Trudeau airport;\u00a0\u2018Sources have stopped talking to us\u2019: Witnesses testify at Day 1 of police-spying commission;\u00a0Michael Geist: Why warrantless access to Internet information is back on the lawmaking agenda;\u00a0Michelle Shephard: Family speaks for first time about Canadian imprisoned in Algeria on terror charges;\u00a0Americans\u2019 right to protest is in grave danger, UN warns;\u00a0Canada: Civil Society Calls for Access to Information Law Reform;\u00a0Ontario government commits to releasing past and future SIU reports.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, March 30, 2017<\/a>: Editorial: Tim McSorley: Bill C-22: Liberals Undermining Goal Of Strong National Security Oversight;\u00a0Glenn Greenwald: Trump\u2019s War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised; Amnesty: Hundreds of Iraqi Civilians Killed in U.S. Airstrikes After Being Told Not to Flee Mosul;\u00a0Environ 250 migrants meurent en M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e dans deux naufrages; Canada should put limits on detention for migrants: Toronto Star Editorial;\u00a0The Justice For Abdirahman Coalition Expresses Disappointment And Outrage Concerning Police Solidarity For Officer Charged With Manslaughter;\u00a0Le Mexique regarde tomber ses journalistes;\u00a0Francis Dupuis-D\u00e9ri: Les n\u00e9gationnistes de l\u2019islamophobie;\u00a0Parents of \u2018no-fly list kids\u2019 upset at no funding for redress system;\u00a0The government is looking to restart a warrantless access program that had been declared unconstitutional;\u00a0What do many lone attackers have in common? Domestic violence.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, March 23, 2017<\/a>: Amendments to Bill C-22 weakens oversight committee before it even begins, says ICLMG;\u00a0Ottawa torture victim declares victory in long fight for justice; Alex Neve, B\u00e9atrice Vaugrante: 6 steps Canada must take after embarrassingly long redress for tortured citizens;\u00a0Omar Khadr deserves government apology and compensation: Editorial;\u00a0House of Commons passes anti-Islamophobia motion M-103;\u00a0NCCM announces settlement of defamation lawsuit against former spokesman for Stephen Harper;\u00a0\u00c0 deux doigts de la mort;\u00a0Senators\u2019 opinion: Immigration detention reforms fall short without effective oversight;\u00a0Vice reporter ordered to hand over correspondence says he\u2019ll \u2018take this as far as it needs to go\u2019;\u00a0Border Agents Need A Warrant to Search Travelers\u2019 Phones, EFF Tells Court;\u00a0Land protectors face criminal charges for defending water, food, culture;\u00a0Prosecutors drop Montreal Mafia cases after questions about RCMP surveillance tactics;\u00a0CSE watchdog urges greater information-sharing powers for review bodies;\u00a0Dozens of civilians killed in US-led airstrike on Isis stronghold in Syria.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, March 16, 2017<\/a>: ICLMG urges the Ministers of Justice and Foreign Affairs to act now for the return of Hassan Diab to Canada; A forgotten Canadian has spent 10 years in Egyptian prison. Advocates are telling Trudeau to get him back;\u00a0Bill C-22: National Security Secrecy Increased: Sabotaging Public Access Promises;\u00a0Steven Zhou: Fight Islamophobia by repealing draconian national security laws; Matthew Behrens: CSIS\u2019s alternative facts universe;\u00a0Refugee claimants need safe access at U.S.-Canada border: Cole;\u00a0In Stinging Blow to President, Hawaii & Maryland Judges Block Trump\u2019s Second Muslim Ban;\u00a0Phone Searches Now Default Mode At The Border; More Searches Last Month Than In All Of 2015;\u00a0My Baby is On the No-Fly List and We Can\u2019t Remove Him From It;\u00a0Why is DHS Labeling Protesters \u201cDomestic Terrorists\u201d?;\u00a0CSIS reneged on pledge to brief judges about secret data centre;\u00a0Review agency for Canada\u2019s spies says it needs more funding.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, March 9, 2017<\/a>:\u00a0Proposed security oversight committee \u2018shadow\u2019 of what it should be, opposition says;\u00a0Trudeau following Harper\u2019s lead in denying justice to illegally imprisoned Muslim men; Apr\u00e8s l\u2019attentat de Qu\u00e9bec, les crimes haineux ont mont\u00e9 en fl\u00e8che;\u00a0Feds settle case of \u2018grossly unfair\u2019 leak about Montreal man, RCMP probe ongoing;\u00a0Amnesty international: Trump\u2019s revised travel ban will stir hatred and division;\u00a0CCR: Welcoming refugees at our borders: a moral and legal imperative; Hungary to detain all asylum seekers in container camps;\u00a0How Justin Trudeau Is Failing Journalists; Criminal charges against Justin Brake an attack on press freedom;\u00a0Revealed: Environmental Activist Berta C\u00e1ceres\u2019 Suspected Killers Received U.S. Military Training;\u00a0Quebec resident Alain Philippon to fight charge for not giving up phone password at airport;\u00a0\u2018Am I at risk of being hacked?\u2019 What you need to know about the \u2018Vault 7\u2019 documents;\u00a0Three Problems with President Trump\u2019s Guant\u00e1namo Tweet.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, March 2, 2017<\/a>:\u00a0Man arrested after Concordia University bomb threat targeting Muslim students; Manning Centre hosts \u2018bonkers\u2019 panel claiming Quebec City mosque was actually helping terrorists;\u00a0Trudeau\u2019s torture policies no different than Trump\u2019s;\u00a0No evidence? No problem;\u00a0How an Illegal Canadian Spy Program Sailed Through Regulatory Checks; Is your Internet data ending up in the NSA\u2019s hands?;\u00a0Goodale should reject Safe Third Country agreement before Homeland Security meeting;\u00a0How to protect your phone privacy when crossing the U.S. border; Can Customs and Border Protection Agents demand to see your ID on a domestic trip?;\u00a0Outcry Kills Anti-Protest Law in Arizona, But Troubling Trend Continues Nationwide;\u00a0Documents Indicate Germany Spied on Foreign Journalists;\u00a0Former neo-Nazi explains why the threat of white extremism must not be ignored.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, February 23, 2017<\/a>:\u00a0Ottawa to compensate, give apologies to Canadians tortured in Syria; Hassan Diab supporters fear changing political climate could hurt chances of fair trial; Anti-Islamophobia motion offers a chance to take a stand against hatred. Why quibble over semantics?; Transparent double standard on freedom of speech; Hundreds of Canadian children held in immigration detention, report shows; New Trump Deportation Rules Allow Far More Expulsions; Donald Trump is right, there was a recent attack in Sweden. By neo-Nazis on a refugee centre; VICE\u2019s Ben Makuch stands up for Canadian press freedom; Militarized Police Just Evicted The Sioux Tribe From Standing Rock At Gunpoint; How to secure your phone when crossing the border; Dramatic increase in people having Canadian citizenship revoked since Trudeau elected; Former UK Home Secretary: Why it was right to release Jamal al-Harith in 2004.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, February 16, 2017<\/a>:\u00a0ICLMG op-ed: Proposed New Preclearance Act Will Bring Border Trouble;\u00a0Release of first batch of security consultation submissions is big win for transparency, but litmus test will be how government responds;\u00a0Amira Elghawaby: Islamophobia is a threat to us all, Canada\u2019s silent majority must speak up; What took Charles Taylor so long to reverse his position on Quebec\u2019s religious restrictions?: H\u00e9bert;\u00a0The Quebec mosque attack victims spent their lives vilified as terrorists. Then they were murdered by one; L\u2019extr\u00eame droite sort de l\u2019ombre;\u00a0Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement Needs To Be Revisited: Lawyers;\u00a0Donald Trump \u2018won\u2019t challenge Muslim travel ban\u2019 in Supreme Court; ICE Arrests 600 in Nationwide Raids After Trump Order Expands Criminalization of Immigrants;\u00a0Trump powers \u2018will not be questioned\u2019 on immigration, senior official says;\u00a0Canadian denied entry to U.S. after being questioned on mosque connections;\u00a0Julia Sanchez: Don\u2019t lecture the Americans about our values. Demonstrate them;\u00a0Revealed: FBI terrorism taskforce investigating Standing Rock activists.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, February 9, 2017<\/a>:\u00a0Muslim leaders urge governments to fight Islamophobia after mosque attack; \u00abUrgent\u00bb de cr\u00e9er une commission sur le racisme syst\u00e9mique;\u00a0Maher Arar says government should scrap anti-terror law as part of response to Islamophobia;\u00a0Syrian Refugee Crisis Linked to Rampant Torture, Disappearances & Arrests of Civilian Population; Ottawa should suspend refugee pact with U.S., Harvard report says;\u00a0Appeals court refuses to reinstate Trump\u2019s ban on travellers from seven Muslim-majority nations; Justice Dept. lawyer says 100,000 visas revoked under travel ban; State Dept. says about 60,000;\u00a0Canadian woman turned away from U.S. border after questions about religion, Trump; Homeland Security Might Start Asking US Visitors for Their Social Media Passwords;\u00a0Kellyanne Conway blames refugees for \u2018Bowling Green massacre\u2019 that never happened;\u00a0WARNING: This Trump order could threaten the privacy of Canadians; CSIS doesn\u2019t know how many Canadians were snared in unlawful data program;\u00a0Just in Time for Trump, Jury Says Defense of Planet Is No Crime.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, February 2, 2017<\/a>: ICLMG editorial: Fighting Hate in the Wake of the Quebec City Mosque Shooting: 5 Ways the Trudeau Government Can Act Now!; Minister Goodale: Reject Information Obtained Through Torture;\u00a0Rima Elkouri: Chronique d\u2019une trag\u00e9die annonc\u00e9e; Canadian conservatives must take long, hard look at their Islamophobic rhetoric;\u00a0Simple truth is Canada\u2019s mass shooters are usually white and Canadian-born: Neil Macdonald; Trump\u2019s Muslim Ban Is Culmination of War on Terror Mentality but Still Uniquely Shameful;\u00a0UN denounces Trump\u2019s travel ban as \u2018mean-spirited\u2019 and illegal under human rights law; Judge Halts Deportations After Protesters Swarm Airports Over Trump\u2019s Order Barring Muslims;\u00a0Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister; NYT editorial: President Bannon?;\u00a0Police Raid Standing Rock Last Child Camp, Arrest 76; Secret Docs Reveal: President Trump Has Inherited an FBI With Vast Hidden Powers;\u00a0Canada must urgently reassess data sharing with the U.S.;\u00a0Kids still caught by no-fly lists despite new redress office, parents say;\u00a0Give Parliamentary committee a chance to shine.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, January 26, 2017<\/a>: Ottawa n\u2019a rien appris du cas Maher Arar; Trump\u2019s war on reality is just getting started: says torture works, eliminates privacy protections for foreigners, imposes ban on refugees, blocks visas from 7 Muslim nations, bans agencies from talking to reporters, while six journalists get felony charges after covering inauguration unrest; Refugee claimants entering from US need our protection; Canadians want more privacy protections and transparency; Les terribles cons\u00e9quences de l\u2019islamophobie; Greenpeace argues Resolute racketeering suit \u2018brute force\u2019 intimidation; Colombian Human Rights Leader Assassinated;\u00a0Trump bans agencies from \u2018providing updates on social media or to reporters\u2019; Opinion: Trump\u2019s war on reality is just getting started;\u00a0Four more journalists get felony charges after covering inauguration unrest.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, January 19, 2017<\/a>: \u2018Secret order\u2019 authorizing RCMP\u2019s covert Cold War wiretapping program released after 65 years; Federal security officials approved Winnipeg police efforts to purchase spying devices; Justin Trudeau promised changes to draconian Bill C-51. We\u2019re still waiting;\u00a0\u2018Rule of law\u2019 racism, C-51 and the coming resistance wave; Republican lawmakers in five states propose bills to criminalize peaceful protests;\u00a0Chelsea Manning\u2019s 35-year sentence commuted by Obama;\u00a0Obama to leave office with more than 40 detainees still in Guant\u00e1namo Bay;\u00a0Pour Amnesty International, la d\u00e9rive s\u00e9curitaire en Europe est dangereuse;\u00a0Complaints describe border agents interrogating Muslim Americans, asking for social media accounts.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, January 12,\u00a02017<\/a>:\u00a0CSIS assessing \u2018bulk data\u2019 collection, records show; Personal privacy under threat by surveillance state;\u00a0Globe Editorial: Quebec police are getting search warrants too easily, hurting the free press; Border agency oversight bill stalls in Parliament;\u00a0N.S.A. Gets More Latitude to Share Intercepted Communications; Congressional report sides with Apple on encryption debate;\u00a0Opinion: Trump wants to restock Guant\u00e1namo. Who\u2019s the \u2018worst of the worst\u2019 now?;\u00a0Medea Benjamin: America dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. What a bloody end to Obama\u2019s reign; The Crimes of the Seal Team 6.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, January 5,\u00a02017<\/a>:\u00a0ICLMG Editorial: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Human Rights and National Security Challenges for 2017;\u00a0Jameel Jaffer on Obama\u2019s National Security Legacy & What Lies Ahead with Trump;\u00a0No Paper Trail;\u00a0Public interest should be central to regulation of charities\u2019 political activities;\u00a0Revealed: British councils used Ripa to secretly spy on public;\u00a0Obama Administration Dismantles Idled Muslim Registry Ahead of Trump Inauguration.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, December 22,\u00a02016<\/a>: Des dizaines d\u2019agents de la GRC ont fouill\u00e9 dans la vie priv\u00e9e de Canadiens sans permission; Statement on the government\u2019s commitment to release the results of the National Security Consultation; Canadian telecoms push back on proposed police powers; Eight reasons why Canada must repeal its anti-terror laws; Montreal newspaper La Presse wants court to stop police investigation of reporter; Surveillance des journalistes: l\u2019opposition d\u00e9nonce le rapport montr\u00e9alais; One quarter of Canadian online traffic vulnerable to NSA sweeps: researchers; EU\u2019s Top Court Delivers \u201cMajor Blow\u201d to Mass Surveillance; Fahmy Foundation, Amnesty International & A Coalition of Concerned Citizens Appeal to Liberal Government.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, December 15,\u00a02016<\/a>: Don\u2019t Let The Police Steal Canada\u2019s National Security Debate; Blood on our hands: Canada\u2019s links to torture; In open letter to ministers, civil society organizations demand transparency on changes to national security; Bill C-51 damages Canada\u2019s economy. It must be scrapped; Real Oversight Needed for Law-breaking National Security Agencies; Canadian spywatcher\u2019s Snowden remark \u2018highly inappropriate\u2019; Federal cabinet secretly approved Cold War wiretaps on anyone deemed \u2018subversive\u2019i; CSIS breaches promise to report on past media surveillance; Goodale keeps door open to CSIS use of metadata gathered from innocent people; IXmaps: See where your data travels.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, December 8,\u00a02016<\/a>: Don\u2019t expand police spying powers, watchdogs tell Ottawa; Liberals\u2019 Digital Surveillance Proposals Far Scarier Than Bill C-51; Amended national security committee bill sails through committee; Canada\u2019s spy services should be more accountable, says director of review committee; Liberals should put an end to Harper\u2019s charity chill; R\u00e9v\u00e9lation Snowden : l\u2019Afrique et les t\u00e9l\u00e9coms sous surveillance massive.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, December 2, 2016<\/a>: How can Canada condone torture?; Trump\u2019s election should prompt Canada to rethink its complicity with U.S. mass surveillance; Jewish Group Disturbed By The Passing Of Anti-BDS Motion; Canada may deploy defence forces if pipeline protests aren\u2019t peaceful: Natural resources minister; Protection des sources des journalistes: Ottawa recule; Does What Happened to This Canadian Journalist at the US-Canada Border Herald a Darker Trend?; Federal override makes spy committee\u2019s mandate \u2018a mirage,\u2019 info czar says; Border strategy has had little impact, auditor general report finds; Potential Trump Pick for Homeland Security Wants to Send 1 Million People to Gitmo.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, November 24, 2016<\/a>: RCMP is overstating Canada\u2019s \u2018surveillance lag\u2019; Le gouvernement vous \u00e9coute (encore plus que vous ne le pensez); Canada\u2019s national security oversight is among the weakest in the Western world; Ottawa approves redress system for Canadian travellers affected by no-fly list; Dakota Access pipeline water protector \u2018may lose her arm\u2019 after police standoff.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, November 17, 2016<\/a>: The RCMP Is Using the Media to \u2018Create Moral Panic\u2019 About Encryption; Bill C-51 is violating our Charter rights and the Canadian government doesn\u2019t care; Commissaire \u00e0 la vie priv\u00e9e du Canada : Journalistes surveill\u00e9s : tous les citoyens sont \u00e0 risque; Surveillance chill on writers and journalists in Canada; Donald Trump\u2019s team \u2018discussing plans for Muslim registration system\u2019; \u2018Consistent evidence\u2019 suggests Ottawa academic did not commit 1980 terrorist bombing, French judge says; Britain has passed the \u2018most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy\u2019.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, November 11, 2016<\/a>: Surveillance scandals break while government presses for more surveillance powers; Ottawa should do its part to protect freedom of press; Montreal police surveillance of journalist a sign of \u2018real-time tracking\u2019; JFE condemns Project SITKA, targeted surveillance of Indigenous land defenders; La haute direction du SPVM a cautionn\u00e9 GAMMA; Illegal spying shows need to update security laws; On Secret Law, Courts And The Rule Of Law; Canada\u2019s legacy of anti-terror panic has come home to roost with Bill C-51; Canada Looks to Purchase Weaponized Drones for Targeted Assassinations, Surveillance, Crowd Control; Donald Trump Says He\u2019d \u2018Absolutely\u2019 Require Muslims to Register.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, November 3, 2016<\/a>: In scathing ruling, Federal Court says CSIS bulk data collection illegal; National security green paper is a whitewash; Six journalistes \u00e9pi\u00e9s par la S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec; Quebec to hold public inquiry into surveillance of journalists; New Bill C-22 abandons Liberal call for real-time parliamentary \u2018oversight\u2019 into CSIS; In case you missed it, Canada passed an anti-Islamophobia motion last week; Police Depts. Paid AT&T Millions to Scrutinize Our Texts & Chats.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, October 27, 2016<\/a>: RCMP\u2019s counterterrorism centre in Ottawa serves as intersection of information; Security of Canada Information Sharing Act; Court order to arrest reporter covering Muskrat Falls is unacceptable; The \u201cCanada Brand\u201d: Violence and Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America; Third hunger strike this year highlights despair of Canada\u2019s detained migrants; Ontario inmate held in solitary confinement for four years moved to better cell; Private Eyes: The Little-Known Company That Enables Worldwide Mass Surveillance.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, October 21, 2016<\/a>:Testimony of Paul Cavalluzzo, representing ICLMG, at the Public Safety Committee expert panel on national security; La Ligue des droits et libert\u00e9s demande \u00e0 Ottawa d\u2019abroger la Loi antiterroriste; Canada\u2019s torture consumers and the faux national security consultation; Court shuts down latest bid to deport Toronto man accused of terror links; Safe in Canada, Khaled Al-Qazzaz speaks on his nightmare spent in a notorious Egyptian prison; Guant\u00e1namo Diary author Mohamedou Ould Slahi freed after 14 years.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, October 14, 2016<\/a>: The \u2018New\u2019 CSIS Brings Secret Police to Canada; New spy-accountability bill will create easily muzzled watchdog, report says; Markham man on U.S. no-fly list stranded overseas, feels \u2018helpless\u2019; Casualties of war on terror continue to be hounded by Canada\u2019s spies;\u00a0Gerry Caplan: Nothing \u2018sunny\u2019 about Canadian\u2019s extradition to France. Why should China be any different?;\u00a0Trudeau government revoking citizenship at much higher rate than Conservatives; \u00a0Last Week Tonight: John Oliver explains why Guantanamo Bay needs to be shut down;\u00a0US military operations are biggest motivation for homegrown terrorists, FBI study finds.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, October 6, 2016<\/a>: Liberals can\u2019t have it both ways on anti-terror law; How Ottawa revived Canada\u2019s most controversial privacy issue; Bill C-51: Less Free Speech, Undermines De-radicalization; Prominent security expert says legislation fatally flawed; CSIS using C-51 to spy on Canadians in foreign prisons, memo reveals; CSIS suspends bulk data mining pending new guidelines; Canada violating international law by jailing hundreds of migrant children, advocacy groups say.<\/p>\n

News Digest \u2013 Revue de l\u2019actualit\u00e9, September 29, 2016<\/a>: La CSILC exhorte le gouvernement \u00e0 mettre en place des m\u00e9canismes d\u2019examen et de surveillance robustes pour les agences de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale; Ottawa failing to protect law-abiding Canadians from security surveillance, watchdog warns; Chantal Bernier: Is C-51 necessary? Prove it; NDP introduces repeal of Bill C-51; Maryam Monsef controversy highlights absurd citizenship law; Ottawa to Consult on Charity Rules \u2013 but Continue Audits; Homa Hoodfar happy to be home after \u2018bitter\u2019 ordeal in Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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