[Stopwar-l] Support Private Prosecution against George W. Bush in Canada

[StopWar]

On September 29, CCIJ and the US-based Center for Constitutional Rights 
sent a letter and 69-page “draft indictment,” supported by 4,000 pages of 
documents, to the Attorney General of Canada calling on him to investigate 
George W. Bush for torture when Mr. Bush comes to Surrey, BC on October 
20.  The letter and indictment are available at: 
http://www.ccij.ca/programs/cases/guantanamo/index.php.  We have received 
no response from the Attorney General so we recently submitted the attached 
follow-up letter.

We are now planning to file private prosecutions in British Columbia on 
Tuesday, October 18th on behalf of individual torture survivors. We are 
asking for the help of organizations in signing a Letter of Support.  We 
are still in the process of finalizing who will file prosecutions, and so 
do not have a final letter for you to review, but it will be similar to a 
letter that many organizations, including CCIJ, signed in February that 
helped force Mr. Bush to cancel a trip to Switzerland.  (The Swiss letter 
is available in English: 
http://www.ccrjustice.org/files/Updated%20Bush%20Denunciation%20Letter%207%20Feb%202011%20English%20.pdf
and French: 
http://www.ccrjustice.org/files/Updated%20Bush%20Denunciation%20Letter%207%20Feb%202011%20FR.pdf).

If you could indicate whether, in principle, your organization could sign 
on to such a letter, by emailing Aliya Hussain of the Center for 
Constitutional Rights (ahussain at ccrjustice.org), we will include you in the 
list.  We will have a final text of a letter for support by Monday, October 
17th, and ask for you final agreement by the early Tuesday, Oct. 18th, so 
that we can launch it that day. We understand that this is a short 
turn-around, and we can issue a second letter with more names after the 
18th if you aren’t able to commit by the 18th.

Please forward this message to any appropriate listservs and to 
organizations that might be interested in signing on.

Thank you very much,

Matt

Matt Eisenbrandt
Legal Director
Canadian Centre for International Justice

www.ccij.ca

1400 – 1125 Howe Street
Vancouver, B.C.  V6Z 2K8
+1 (604) 569-1778

meisenbrandt at ccij.ca
skype: meisenbrandt
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