Guilty Until .... No.. Just Guilty! Canada's Dark Age

in #politics7 years ago


When a country has laws that takes away a citizen's right to defend him against an accusation; that presumes the accuser is telling the truth even when the evidence says they're wrong; that presumes a foreign government's word is true and assumes a citizens guilt especially the accusation has been proven false; that country has lost the privilege to call itself "free."

What's free about it? Except France's overwhelming power over Canadians.

Mark Stallard breaks it down.

--sources and related reading--
Newly obtained documents reveal the efforts Canada made behind the scenes to ensure the extradition of Hassan Diab, the Ottawa university professor who spent three years in a French prison while being investigated for terrorism charges that were later dropped.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/hassan-diab-france-terrorism-investigation-1.4614855

Hassan Diab spent three years in a French prison for a 1980 bombing, despite no evidence he committed the crime. Now, the Ottawa man is trying to piece his fractured life back together.
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/hassan-diab-extradition-french-prison


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