Entering 2026 with Hope for Justice and Human Rights
Watch videos from our November 14, 2025, event in Ottawa, “Seeking Justice for Hassan Diab – Almost 20 Years of Violated Human Rights”. The large turnout and engaged Q&A at the event demonstrated broad support for justice, fairness, and human rights in general, and for Hassan Diab in particular.
Donald Bayne, Hassan’s lawyer since early 2009, provided an overview of Hassan’s long struggle for justice that highlighted the many, atrocious legal missteps in the case, and Mr. Bayne’s own dismay at seeing an innocent person being subjected to such an ordeal.
Human rights advocate and 2025 Massey Lecturer, Professor Alex Neve, offered powerful reflections on the human-rights implications of the Diab case.
Watch “Hassan Diab: A Case of Relentless Persecution”, an interview with Mr. Bayne, where he presents a summary of the many legal missteps leading to Dr. Diab’s extradition to France in 2014 and the sham trial held in France in 2023. This interview was pre-recorded and shown at the event.
Watch “Defending the Wrongfully Accused”, which presents Mr. Bayne’s commentary and Q&A at the event.
Watch event keynote address by human rights advocate, Professor Alex Neve, where he offered powerful reflections on the human-rights implications of the Diab case, and Mr. Neve’s perspectives on the ongoing struggle for recognition of universal human rights.
• Join the postcard campaign to urge the Canadian government to refuse any future extradition request for Dr. Diab and to reform Canada’s Extradition Act. Postcards are available at Octopus Books in Ottawa, or you write to diabsupport@gmail.com to request that postcards be mailed to you.
• Send a letter to the Minister of Justice, Mr. Sean Fraser, to urge him to refuse any future extradition request and to put an end – once and for all – to this ongoing miscarriage of justice.