Since November 2024, there has been a concerted and malicious campaign against Dr. Hassan Diab, which has directly triggered hate mail and death threats against Hassan, his wife, and two children.
The Hassan Diab Support Committee, which has been active on Hassan Diab’s behalf for over sixteen years, has issued a Media Statement to provide the true fundamental facts which are being ignored or deliberately distorted by those who seek to scapegoat this innocent man.
The label “convicted synagogue bomber”, plastered on Dr. Diab’s identity, is a vilification resting on the verdict of an in absentia bogus trial at the Paris Special Assize Court in 2023. The trial was designed to convict Hassan Diab, and the verdict resulted from defamatory fabrications, secret “intelligence”, denial of exculpatory evidence, and perjury. It is important to note that during the trial, the two investigating judges (Jean-Marc Herbaut and Richard Foltzer), testified in Hassan’s defence, repeating their original conclusion that there was no basis for a conviction. The Special Assize Court ignored their findings and declared Hassan guilty.
The unjust French conviction was based on secret, unsourced, uncircumstanced and unreliable “intelligence” – inadmissible in the Canadian system of justice. Canada must not be party to this injustice and must state urgently and unequivocally that Hassan Diab will not be subjected to a second extradition.