Canadian Tax Agency Targets Muslim Charities: Report
Petition demands investigation be sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. A coalition of civil liberties groups issued a report indicating the tax arm of the federal government is unfairly targeting Muslim charities, leading to a revocation of funding based on discrimination, media reports said Wednesday.
While the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) denies the charge, the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) report cited statistics that tend to support the discrimination claims. The report shows that the Review and Analysis Division (RAD), a little know division of the CRA is targeting Muslim charities for audits, based on prejudiced and unsupported allegations of a risk of terrorist financing, according to the report obtained by Anadolu Agency. Between 2008 and 2015, 75% of all charities revoked by RAD following these secretive audits were Muslim charitie
A Jan. 27 decision by the French appeal court ordering Diab stand trial has been appealed by his French lawyers and Bayne said the French Supreme Court will decide on this appeal next Wednesday. There was a wrongful extradition of a Canadian citizen, Dr. Diab, by Canada in 2014 not for trial as legally required, but for further investigation, Bayne said.
French authorities suspected Diab was involved in the 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue that killed four people and injured dozens of others, an accusation he has consistently denied.
After lengthy proceedings that went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, Diab was extradited to France, where he spent three years behind bars, including time in solitary confinement.
France’s top court is expected to issue a ruling on May 19 on whether Canadian academic Hassan Diab must stand trial in connection with a 40-year-old bombing attack outside a Paris synagogue.
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The lawyer for an Ottawa sociology professor who has lived with terror accusations for more than a decade says the federal government must flatly reject any new attempt to extradite Hassan Diab to France.
Lawyer Donald Bayne contends the latest French appeal court decision in the case it orders Diab to stand trial perpetuates a long and profound miscarriage of justice.
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That appeal court decision, Bayne said, relies on invented and misinterpreted evidence while ignoring evidence that supports Diab’s innocence.