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| Amnesty slams Canada for rights abuse |
| 2010-08-29 |
| [Iran Press] Amnesty International's new secretary general has sharply criticized the Canadian government for its "serious" human rights violations. You have to be pretty hard up as a 'human rights organization' to start citing Canada for rights abuses ... Salil Shetty told the CIVICUS World Assembly on Citizen Participation on Monday that Amnesty International is increasingly concerned "about the serious worsening" of Canada's human rights approach. "There is a real shrinking of democratic spaces in this country... Many organizations have lost their funding for raising inconvenient questions," AFP quoted Shetty as saying. He also pressed Ottawa to seek the repatriation of a Canadian detainee, Omar Khadr, held at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. All this fuss over one man ... Shetty said that the prisoner's detention was "unlawful" and that his trial, held this month before a US military tribunal, was "unjust." Khadr was only 15 years old when he was captured by US troops in Afghanistan eight years ago. He is accused of throwing a grenade that killed an American soldier during a gun battle in 2002. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 Wait till PETA gets on their back for Moose hunting! |
| Posted by: borgboy 2010-08-29 17:18 |
| #7 Oh, stfu. This is the same Salil Shetty who supports Amnesty International's defence of the concept of defensive jihad as ‘not antithetical to human rights. AI has much bigger fish to fry. |
| Posted by: Swanimote 2010-08-29 11:24 |
| #6 why don't we ever hear about Amnesty condemning rights abuses in , say, Saudi Arabia where a man and his wife just punched 24 hot nails into the hands, body and even forehead of a sri lankan maid. Her crime? complaining the workload was too muchwhich it probably was. . |
| Posted by: anon1 2010-08-29 11:08 |
| #5 "... Many organizations have lost their funding for raising inconvenient questions ..." If government is the only source of funding what did you expect? A free market? "He also pressed Ottawa to seek the repatriation of a Canadian detainee, Omar Khadr ..." Shetty thinks that Ottawa hasn't? What a Shetty thing to say. Lets see, captured on the battlefield after killing a GI. I think that the US probably said no to Ottawa's request. |
| Posted by: Mike Ramsey 2010-08-29 08:49 |
| #4 "about the serious worsening" of Canada's human rights Well, the acts of suppressing free speech under the guise of 'hate speech' is well recorded. However, Canadians are aware of that problem and appear to be taking a tack back to real free speech. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-08-29 08:43 |
| #3 Oi vey, oi vey, oi vey. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-08-29 02:42 |
| #2 Salil Shetty I got to ask - is that pronounced the way I think it's pronounced. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-08-29 02:26 |
| #1 Note to self:...cancel all and any plans to fund amnesty Internationals bitchfest |
| Posted by: Boss Glock5359 2010-08-29 01:37 |