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On October 19, 2011, a public lecture about Hassan Diab’s case was held at Carleton University. The speakers were Nathalie Des Rosiers, General Counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), and Donald Bayne, Hassan’s lawyer. The lecture was moderated by Bill Skidmore, instructor at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (Human Rights) at Carleton University.
The event included a discussion of the following topics:
- Why exonerating evidence was not allowed in court
- How Canada’s extradition law is fundamentally unfair
- Why a fair trial in France is unlikely
This event was sponsored by: The Departments of Law, Sociology and Anthropology and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (Human Rights) at Carleton University; CUPE Local 4600; and the Canadian Association of University Teachers.