June 26th is the United Nations’ International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. In recognition of this day, ICLMG has sent three letters to the federal government calling on them to stop the Canadian government’s complicity in torture in three different cases:
- A letter to the Minister of Public Safety, Gary Anandasangaree, calling on him to stop the deportation to torture proceedings against Mohamed Harkat once and for all. The letter contains important new developments that support allowing Moe Harkat’s to stay in Canada, including the recent decision from a Federal Court Justice ruling as unreasonable a Minister’s delegate decision stating that protection against refoulement to torture didn’t apply to Moe Harkat, despite his being a UN Convention refugee.
- A letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Anita Anand, calling on her to repatriate all Canadians arbitrarily detained in northeast Syria, and now in Iraq, in life-threatening conditions akin to torture. This letter also shares important updates including a call from the UN Human Rights Committee for Canada to repatriate all its citizens from NE Syria and Iraq, and a recent report from Human Rights Watch that warns about unfair trials, torture and the common use of death penalty in Iraq.
- A letter to the Minister of Justice, Sean Fraser, calling on the Canadian government to swiftly implement the apology and compensation we are confident the federal court will include in its upcoming decision regarding Abousfian Abdelrazik’s lawsuit against the government for its role in his illegal detention and torture in Sudan.
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