Background information on Dr. Hassan Diab’s case
- Backgrounder on Dr. Hassan Diab’s case
- “The Hassan Diab Case: Injustice expands, need for redress and reform deepens”, by Alex Neve, Global Justice Journal, 2021
Recent news reports and articles
- “Canadian academic Hassan Diab ordered to stand trial in French terrorism case”, CBC News, May 19, 2021”
- CBC “All in a Day” interview with Don Bayne, Hassan Diab’s Canadian lawyer, May 19, 2021
- CBC “As It Happens” Interview with Alex Neve, former Secretary General of Amnesty International – Canada, May 19, 2021 (starts at 36:36)
- “Our extradition system is broken, and Hassan Diab is paying with his life”, by Samantha Ponting, ricochet media, May 19, 2021
- “Hassan Diab deserves better from the justice minister”, by Gary Botting, Legal Matters, May 31, 2021
- The Real News “Rattling the Bars” (host Eddie Conway) interview with Roger Clark and Monia Mazigh, June 2, 2021
- “Canada should suspend its extradition treaty with France over the persecution of Hassan Diab”, by Robert J. Currie, rabble.ca, June 3, 2021
- “How France lied about Hassan Diab”, by Michelle Weinroth, Canadian Dimension, June 6, 2021
Organisational support for Hassan Diab
The list of civil society and human rights organisations standing in solidarity with Hassan Diab continues to grow. Organisations are urging the Canadian government to intervene, end Hassan’s Kafkaesque nightmare of injustice, and refuse a potential second extradition request from France.
Parliamentary petition, e-3400
Memos by Don Bayne, Hassan’s Canadian lawyer, critiquing the French Court of Appeal Decision of 27 January 2021
Recent press conferences
- Press conference in Ottawa on January 27, 2021 (reacting to French Court of Appeal decision of January 27, 2021)
- Press conference in Ottawa on May 12, 2021
Papers on Extradition
- “The Problematically Low Threshold of Evidence in Canadian Extradition Law: An Inquiry into its Origins; and Repercussions in the Case of Hassan Diab”, by Maeve McMahon, Manitoba Law Journal, 2019
- “Wrongful Extradition: Reforming the Committal Phase of Canada’s Extradition Law”, by Robert Currie, Manitoba Law Journal, 2021