Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks
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Civil Rights
Excerpts from Open Letter to the Head of Judiciary: the Islamic Republic of Iran re the imprisonment of 7 Iranian Baha’is on baseless and unproved charges and other human rights violations of followers of Iran’s largest religious minority
In this open letter addressed to the head of Iranian Judiciary, Mohammad Sadeq Larijani, the Baha’i International Community criticizes the judicial administrative process and brings into light the abuse of the legal process and numerous violations of Iranian Constitution, while calling into question judiciary’s impartiality, and reminding the Head of judiciary of stark lack of any evidence in the charges laid against 7 members of the Baha’i administrative body of Iran who have are sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment.
Azar Nafisi, New York Times Best Seller Author Discusses Baha’is’ Human Rights Violations in Iran
Azar Nafisi is the author of the New York Times 117-week bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran. In this video she discusses the widespread violations of Baha’is’ human rights in Iran as well as her personal…
Stacy Bonds Beaten, Stripped by Ottawa Police
James Morton gives the backdrop in The Ottawa Citizen: The facts of Bonds’s treatment bear repeating. She was walking on Rideau Street in downtown Ottawa. She was neither drunk nor behaving inappropriately. The police stopped…
Political Prisoner in Iran – A letter to the supreme leader
How are immigrants from countries with great Human Rights abuses affected by the defaming actions of the political structures in their countries of birth?
Bringing Animal Rights to the Forefront of Correctional Services Reform
Why Animal Rights matter when there are so many legal issues concerning the well being of human beings?
Are prisons really about correcting people?
CSIS tapped phone despite order
Can you blame people if their response to this kind of news is cynicism? CSIS tapped phone despite order Agents violated solicitor-client privilege, recorded 171 calls involving accused terrorist By Andrew Duffy, The Ottawa Citizen…
George Stroumboulopoulos and Senator Romeo Dallaire discuss Omar Khadr
The full interview can also be accessed internationally online at http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/videos.html
Ontario Prostitution Laws Struck
I have to admit that when I first heard on AM980 that Justice Susan Himel stuck the prostitution laws for Ontario, I was a bit dismayed. Â Many people who think of prostitution think of the…
Police Powers and The G20: Why the Public Works Protection Act Was Unnecessary
In the following paper I advance the argument that the use of the Public Works Protection Act at the G20 by police was unnecessary and inappropriate. I suggest that they had ample existing authority under statute and common law to do the job they needed to do.
Introducing the Niqabitches
Here’s what some students in France came up with to protest recent legislation there. Read the full story at The Telegraph.
More Collaboration Between NCRs
One of the upsides from the fallout of the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” is that there is a clear acknowledgment that Islamophobia likely ranks the highest out of any form of discrimination. This has likely…