Category: Hassan Diab

Supporters of Hassan Diab Urge Canada to Reject France’s Latest Extradition Request

June 8, 2023
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The federal government’s representative in the Senate says France has requested the extradition of Ottawa sociology professor Hassan Diab—a demand his supporters are telling the prime minister to refuse. In a new letter to Justin Trudeau, over 130 members of the Canadian legal community say extradition must not be used as “an instrument of persecution…

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Hassan Diab’s Supporters Urge Canada to Rebuff Extradition After Guilty Verdict

April 21, 2023
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Supporters of Hassan Diab are calling on Canada to refuse any new extradition request from France after a court found the Ottawa sociology professor guilty of a 1980 bombing. Diab, who has always maintained innocence, was tried in absentia in Paris for the attack on a synagogue that killed four and wounded 46. A French…

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Order to Stand Trial in Paris Bombing Flies in Face of Evidence, Diab’s Lawyer Says

January 27, 2021
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OTTAWA—A lawyer for Hassan Diab says a French appeal court’s order that the Ottawa sociology professor stand trial for a decades-old synagogue bombing is the latest misstep in a long odyssey of injustice. Donald Bayne told a news conference Wednesday the decision delivered in Paris “flies in the face of the existing evidence,” and he…

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