"The Canadian Border Services Agency has no explicit policy governing use of evidence suspected of coming from torture."

Canadian Press, 25 March 2008

MONTREAL — A French legal expert is warning Canada it will break international law if evidence obtained through torture is used to deport a suspected Basque terrorist.

Didier Rouget, a lawyer who has represented several torture victims, suggested Thursday that Canada is walking a dangerous line if it returns Ivan Apaolaza Sancho to Spain.

Sancho was arrested on a Quebec City ferry last summer and is wanted by Spain for a series of car bombings tied to the violent Basque separatist group ETA.

Controversial terror law set to expire

Andrew Duffy, The Ottawa Citizen, Thursday, January 31, 2008

Sophie Harkat accused the federal government yesterday of making a "political" statement with its sudden re-arrest of her husband, a terror suspect (whatever that means) who has lived on strict bail conditions in Ottawa for the past 18 months.

"I think it's a political move," she told the Citizen in an interview yesterday, one day after agents with the Canada Border Services Agency arrested Mohamed Harkat for an alleged bail violation.

A spokesman for the border agency, Chris Williams, refused to comment on Ms.  Harkat's allegation.

Call from the Justice for Mohamed Harkat Committee

How Benamar Benatta 'disappeared' after 9/11. The Canadian government sent him to the U.S. where he was accused of being behind the 9/11 bombings: 'The way they accused me, I thought my life was over'
 
Andrew Duffy, The Ottawa Citizen, January 26, 2008

Toronto's Benamar Benatta calls himself a forgotten victim of Sept. 11.

Mr. Benatta, 33, a former Algerian air force lieutenant, also has the dubious distinction of being the first victim of Canada's sometimes overzealous security response to the U.S. terror attacks.

Former Ottawa engineer Maher Arar is the best known victim of Canada's post-9/11 national security excesses. A secretive federal inquiry is now exploring what happened to three other Arab Canadians -- Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El-Maati and Muayyed Nureddin -- who, like Mr. Arar, say they were tortured in Syria based on faulty Canadian intelligence.

Gareth Peirce, Friday December 21, 2007, Guardian

Globe and Mail, COLIN FREEZE, December 5, 2007

    Editorial, The Gazette, Friday, December 07

Mahmoud Jaballah is a suspected Al-Qa'ida sympathizer, but not convicted of anything - and the distinction is critical, not semantic.

In fact, he has never been charged with any crime, and so has never even gone to trial. But he did spend eight years in a special jail in Kingston, Ont., - built for suspected terrorists - based on circumstantial evidence about his involvement in the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 before being released to severe house arrest in Toronto last spring. ((Correction - he spent most of his prison time in Toronto, was only moved to Guantanamo north (the special Kingston prison) when it opened in spring 2006 - CJAC))

There are no charges pending, but Jaballah is far from free. His family's every move is watched by CSIS and police, who have set up heavy monitoring outside his home.

Sidhartha Banerjee, THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL - The lawyer for accused Basque terror suspect Ivan Apaolaza Sancho says there is not enough evidence to link his client to a terrorist group and that he should be allowed to remain in Canada.

Sancho is seeking refugee status in Canada based on claims he will be tortured if returned to Spain.

Following an Immigration and Refugee Board admissibility review on Wednesday, lawyer William Sloan said he will submit a "non-suit" motion stating that the evidence presented by the Canadian government is insufficient to tie his client to terrorist activities.

"There's no evidence at all, all there is are accusations," Sloan said outside the hearing room, adding he hasn't been able to see any evidence provided by Spain.

A brief introduction to five men held under "security certificates" (Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui, 20 October 2007).

    Michelle Shephard, The Toronto Star, September 2007

BATH, Ont.- Hassan Almrei strolls from his cell wearing a pressed cream shirt, dress pants and polished black shoes. If not for the barbed wire behind him, the 33-year-old Syrian could be on his way to a corporate board meeting, not an interview with a journalist as the remaining detainee in a prison dubbed "Guantanamo North."

Almrei has fought a series of public and legal battles to get to this point. Over the six years of his detention he has stopped eating, sometimes for weeks at a time, to pressure the government to grant him privileges like wearing a watch, or stopping the daily strip searches.