QUICK LINKS: THE BASIC INFORMATION YOU NEED TO GET AN OVERVIEW OF SECRET TRIALS IN CANADA

 A collection of links to basic information, statements made about the fundamentally flawed and unfair secret trial "security certificate," editorials from major Canadian newspapers on the issue, and links to key court decisions.

What are Security Certificates, and What You can Do to Stop Them: A Primer

Who Are Canada's Secret Trial Five?

BACKGROUNDER ON DEPORTATION TO TORTURE

Amnesty International on Secret Trial Security Certificates

Growing List of People in Canada Calling for an End to Secret Trial Security Certificates

New Democratic Party Resolution on Secret Trial Security Certificates

Federal Court Justice Hugessen, on Secret Trial Security Certificates: "We Hate Them!"

Leading Canadian Legal Associations, Law Professors, and Lawyers Condemn Secret Trial Security Certificates in Open Letter to Anne McLellan

The Berlin Declaration: The International Commission of Jurists Declaration on Upholding Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Combating Terrorism, August 28, 2004

 In the Shadow of the Law: A Report by the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) in response to Justice Canada's 1st annual report on the application of the Anti-Terrorism Act (Bill C-36)

Relevant provisions from the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act

The Esperanza Fund: Aiding the Families of Canada's Secret Trial Detainees

Editorials from:

Globe and Mail: Heather Mallick, What happened to my old friend Canada?, September 3, 2005

Globe and Mail: Security certificate detainees: casualties of our anxiety, September 2, 2005

Ottawa Citizen: A Future Ruled by Law, September 1, 2005
 

Toronto Star: Supreme Court Must Rectify National Travesty, August 31, 2005
 

Toronto Star: System holds too many possibilities for abuse, Linda McQuaig, July 24, 2005
 

Toronto Star: Signs of sympathy for terror suspects, Thomas Walkom, July 2, 2005
 

Toronto Star: Terror and Civil Rights, June 30, 2005
 

Toronto Star: Indefinite detention, or risk of torture, Thomas Walkom, June 25, 2005

Globe and Mail: Heather Mallick on Kafka and Secret Trials, April 9, 2005

Toronto Star: Canada's Vexing Security Cases, February 18, 2005

Montreal Gazette: There has to be a Better Way, February 8, 2005

Toronto Star: Rights and Security, We Must Have Both, December 29, 2004

Toronto Star: Time to Return to Rule of Law, December 24, 2003

Toronto Star: Canada's Dirty Little Secret, December 17, 2004

Toronto Star: Canadian Civil Rights Under Siege, August 1, 2003

Maclean's: In Defence of Freedom, July 28, 2003, Edward Greenspan

Globe and Mail: When Liberties Fall in Security's Name, May 29, 2003

Toronto Star: CSIS "Facts" Bear Closer Scrutiny, June 3, 2003

Hamilton Spectator: Security Certificate a Draconian Piece of Law, May 14, 2003

KEY COURT DECISIONS (LINKS COMING SOON)

 

 

Freedom Caravan to Ottawa, June 3-16: Join us for a week on the road in early June for an ongoing series of vigils, information pickets, meetings with MPs, and more as we prepare to attend the Supreme Court hearings on secret trials, scheduled for June 13-15.