[news] Canada's Disgrace: The Cases of Maher Arar and Omar Khadr

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

[Maher] Arar and [Omar] Khadr have a few things in common besides being Canadian citizens. Both have suffered inhumane torture. Both have had their legal rights and rights as citizens of Canada suspended by successive profligate Liberal and Conservative governments. The plight of these two men is merely the most recent and very dramatic example of this country's chronic unwillingness to protect the rights of our citizens abroad. Where Britain and Australia have fought vigorously and successfully to have their citizens removed from the infamous Guantanamo gulag successive Canadian governments have cowered in silence. 

  


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