Guantanamo North: Terrorism & the Administration of Justice in Canada

Full talk available at http://blip.tv/file/1539751


Robert Diab is is a practicing lawyer with experience in criminal, administrative and constitutional law. He teaches at Capilano University in North Vancouver and holds graduate degrees in Law and Interdisciplinary Studies.

His book, Guantanamo North: Terrorism & the Administration of Justice in Canada is published by Fernwood Publishing:

http://www.fernwoodpublishing.ca/

His talk was co-hosted by the University of Ottawa Human Rights Centre and Faculty of Law, 2 December 2008.

"In a nation with a high regard for human rights and civil liberties, non-citizens with links to terrorism are being held indefinitely without charge on secret evidence. The courts have found preventive arrests, judicial interrogations and greater state secrecy as being consistent with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Examining the role of Parliament, the Courts and law enforcement, Guantánamo North argues that anti-terrorism measures are unnecessary and shows that those measures move the administration of justice further from human rights and freedom."

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Guantanamo
• human rights
• law
• justice
• terrorism
• war on terror