Friday, May 22, 2009

Canada worse than US on detainees' rights

The Canadian Supreme Court rejected the right of detainees to have recourse to Canadian courts, in this case Afghan detainees held by Canadian troops who may be transferred to torture.
In the United States, its Supreme Court has ruled, repeatedly, that detainees held by U.S. forces both at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and Bagram, the main U.S. prison in Afghanistan, have recourse to U.S. courts.
In Afghanistan, tortured and abused prisoners had claimed they had been handed over to Afghan security forces after being captured by Canadian troops.

The decision is separate from a public inquiry process launched by the Military Police Complaints Commission into whether Canadian military police were complicit in handing over detainees because they knew – or should have known – that transferred prisoners were likely to be tortured in Afghanistan's notorious jails.

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