http://kerrypither.com author • advocate • commentator Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:04:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://kerrypither.com/2010/02/iacobucci-inquiry-reveals-new-ways-that-csis-contributed-to-the-torture-of-canadian-ahmad-el-maati-in-egypt/ http://kerrypither.com/2010/02/iacobucci-inquiry-reveals-new-ways-that-csis-contributed-to-the-torture-of-canadian-ahmad-el-maati-in-egypt/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:15:12 +0000 kerry http://kerrypither.com/?p=542 newly released information says that in June 2002, CSIS agents sent a message to Egyptian authorities trying to confirm that El Maati was in detention there, and telling them, among other things not disclosed, that he was involved in a plan to commit a terrorist act in Canada. Justice Iacobucci has already confirmed that that this allegation was not based on evidence, but on an alleged “confession” obtained earlier from Syrian authorities – a “confession” that Iacobucci says CSIS should have known was likely the product of torture.]]> http://kerrypither.com/2010/02/iacobucci-inquiry-reveals-new-ways-that-csis-contributed-to-the-torture-of-canadian-ahmad-el-maati-in-egypt/feed/ 0 http://kerrypither.com/2009/03/robert-fisk-on-accountability-for-complicity-in-torture/ http://kerrypither.com/2009/03/robert-fisk-on-accountability-for-complicity-in-torture/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:20:24 +0000 kerry http://kerrypither.com/?p=288 Independent's Robert Fisk was in Ottawa a few weeks ago and spoke with Canadian torture survivor Abdullah Almalki, one of the men whose stories I tell in my book. Fisk writes about Almalki's case in his column, published today, and raises the all-important issue of accountability. "I want to know why those complicit in Almalki's torture – the letter writers, the composers of questions – cannot be tried in court," he writes. "They are, at the least, accomplices to human rights abuses." Good point. Especially since they aren't just not being held accountable — they're being promoted. Just this week we learned that the RCMP's Michel Cabana, the man who was in charge of the RCMP investigation that targeted Ahmad El Maati, Almalki, Maher Arar and Muayyed Nureddin, has been promoted to an Assistant Commissioner of the RCMP (Federal and International Operations, Border Integrity Section).
]]> http://kerrypither.com/2009/03/robert-fisk-on-accountability-for-complicity-in-torture/feed/ 0 http://kerrypither.com/2008/11/dark-days-chosen-as-a-quill-and-quire-book-of-the-year/ http://kerrypither.com/2008/11/dark-days-chosen-as-a-quill-and-quire-book-of-the-year/#comments Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:13:22 +0000 kerry http://kerrypither.com/?p=168 Quill and Quire, "Canada's magazine of book news and reviews," says Dark Days is "an essential book for our morally ambiguous times," and has chosen it as one of fifteen books (and one of four non-fiction books) to remember from 2008. ]]> http://kerrypither.com/2008/11/dark-days-chosen-as-a-quill-and-quire-book-of-the-year/feed/ 0