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National Security and Human Rights: Bringing the Political Back in

The popular uprising that is spreading from Tunisia to Egypt and beyond has global significance – it has succeeded, at…

Documents Reveal Government in Dilemma on Security Certificates

On January 21, 2011, Mohamed Harkat, his wife Sophie, his lawyer Matt Webber, a group of supporters and members of…

When Are We Going to Have Our Life Back?

What was expected to be the end of a long nightmare and a great end to 2010 turned out to be a disaster. We can’t really…

Tunisia: Time to Put Human Rights First

After so many years, indeed decades, of unrelenting repression the dizzying speed of change in Tunisia over the past week…

Ghailani: Justice or Charade?

September 11 may have come as a shock to our collective consciousness, and rocketed Al Qaeda to household-name status, but…

Mohamed Harkat Condemned by Secret Allegations – Part 2 of 2

It is a matter of public record that Harkat’s case, overseen by Noel, has been burdened by numerous instances of…

Air India: Still A Policy Debacle After All These Years? Part 2 of 2

In fairness to the government, it must be said that even before Major, improvements have been made in the way…

Mohamed Harkat Condemned by Secret Allegations – Part 1 of 2

A week ago, three interconnected Federal Court decisions upholding the regime of secret hearings and judicially sanctioned rendition to torture…

Air India: Still A Policy Debacle After All These Years? Part 1 of 2

It is now a quarter century since an Air India flight from Canada to India exploded over the Atlantic off…

Haitham Maleh, Father of All Syrians

On this 10th day of December 2010, the International Day for Human Rights, my father, Mr. Haitham Maleh, who is…