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…
Hassan Diab’s Supporters Urge Canada to Rebuff Extradition After Guilty Verdict
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…
Order to Stand Trial in Paris Bombing Flies in Face of Evidence, Diab’s Lawyer Says
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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