Monday, September 22, 2008

Where's Canada's oversight to protect human rights?


By Maher Arar
The Globe and Mail

".....Two years later, Canadians still have no credible recourse for reporting human-rights abuses perpetrated by these agencies. While the existing review bodies for the RCMP and CSIS - the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP and the Security Intelligence Review Committee - serve a valuable function, they have failed to prevent these agencies from engaging in activities that violate basic human rights of Canadian citizens - activities such as leaking selective and sometimes false information to the media, interrogating a minor "softened up" by weeks of sleep deprivation, and working against the return of a Canadian citizen to Canada......"

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