Migration
Outsourcing Torture
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Listen Online: [Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-1-ckdu_torture_jan19.mp3]
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Abousfian Abdelrazik was arrested while on vacation in Sudan on the recommendation of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). He was beaten and threatened while detained with no charges. He remained in Sudan for six years.
He is one of many victims of Canada outsourcing torture, including Abdullah [...]
A Tale of Acadie
Monday, November 16th, 2009[Audio: http://drobicho.com/sono/NRCAentryTBC.mp3]
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When their ancestors left France to colonize new lands over four centuries ago, they never would have never imagined the tragedy that would await.
Join four French storytellers, in their inaugural voyage to Nova Scotia. Four centuries later, one question is on their mind: what is left of their culture?
Lillianne [...]
Charkaoui wins new freedoms in fight against Security Certificate
Thursday, October 8th, 2009HALIFAX – Mr. Adil Charkaoui visited Parliament Hill last week to ask for an official apology from the Canadian government for his years of suffering. Charkaoui was arrested under a security certificate in 2003; he spent 21 months in prison, faced torture, and then lived under house arrest with restrictive conditions. During that time, Canadian [...]
Canada to hear appeal for Omar Khadr’s repatriation from Guantanamo
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Canada’s Supreme Court will hear an appeal from the Canadian government of a lower court order to ask the United States to repatriate Canadian national Omar Khadr. Khadr is the only remaining citizen of a Western country detained at the infamous U.S. detention and torture centre, Guantanamo Bay. He was captured in 2002 in Afghanistan, [...]
Mi’kmaq workers cite harassment by border guards
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009Mi’kmaq from New Brunswick and Canada experienced an aggressive search operation by U.S. Customs officials as they crossed to work as blueberry rakers in Maine last week.
Some of the Mi’kmaq interviewed by the Bangor Daily News said they were held as long as three hours. Many complained of an aggressive attitude by the Customs agents. [...]
Ivan Sancho, Political Prisoner
Saturday, October 11th, 2008Tuesday, August 19th: CKDU radio in Halifax presents an hour long special on the case of Ivan Apaolaza Sancho, a Basque Political Prisoner held by the Canadian authorities at the behest of the Spanish Government, who alleges he is a member of the ETA, the armed Basque nationalist group in Spain and France.
Ivan Sancho is [...]
Canadians demand Omar Khadr’s release from Guantanamo Bay.
Thursday, July 31st, 2008July 31, 2008.
HALIFAX – Canadian citizen Omar Khadr has been detained at Guantanamo Bay for 6 years. Arrested at the age of 15 in Afghanistan for allegedly throwing a grenade during an offensive with U.S. soldiers, recent evidence has been uncovered that he actually never threw any grenade. Recently leaked FBI documents portray [...]
