Six years in legal labyrinth Charkaoui, however, is the legal star of the five. He’s won two Supreme Court challenges and, as he gradually demolished Ottawa’s case against him, managed to make the government look…
Ottawa to launch Supreme Court appeal of Khadr ruling The federal government will go to the Supreme Court of Canada to appeal a court order to bring Omar Khadr home from a U.S. military prison,…
Your password is a gun. It can’t shoot but at least the government treats it like a gun. In the UK, they made it a crime to refuse to give up your password to the…
2nd Canadian stranded in Kenya? The network says when she tried to bring Mohammed back to Canada through Kenya three years ago, she was told the person with her was not her son because he…
Prof. Neve Gordon of Ben-Gurion University, a third-generation Israeli who suffered severe war wounds resulting in physical disabilities, has come out with a strange proposition. The only way that Israel can save itself from what…
Sikh not mocked in hard hat row, hearing told A Sikh security guard who would not don a hard hat at a Home Depot store under construction was not mocked or told he could be…
US judge ‘ignored death row plea’ The prisoner, Michael Wayne Richard, was put to death hours after she allegedly shut the court, despite being told an appeal was imminent.
Released Canadian’s lawyer clamouring for client’s case file He added he fears that Ms. Mohamud is the victim of a “whisper campaign” from federal officials who are leaking unverified claims to the news media. “My…
Abousfian Abdelrazik, Omar Khadr and Suaad Hagi Mohamud all have something in common — they have faced, at one time or another, the federal government’s indifference to their intolerable circumstances. Our national legal community is…
She is back in Canada now. Here are all our posts and essays on her trials and tribulations.
Ottawa must seek Khadr’s return: Court The Federal Court of Appeal ruled today that the government offered no compelling reasons why it should not comply with an order to request that Khadr, 22, be repatriated…
A Muslim woman has been banned from using public swimming pool due to wearing a head-to-toe Burqini. French officials claimed that the ban was due to strict hygienic policies practiced in France and was not…
