Reasonable Cause to Suspect: A Mother’s Ordeal to Free Her Son from a Kurdish Prison
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM London Muslim Mosque 151 Oxford St. West London, ON N6H 1S3
Monday March 18, starting at 6 pm.
With: Author Sally Lane, whose son Jack Letts has been wrongfully defamed by an inflammatory UK media and illegally held almost 7 years under conditions the UN calls “akin to torture”
Matthew Behrens of Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture, who has worked closely with the targets of Canadian and U.S. “national security” repression for over 25 years.
Background Guantanamo in the Desert – where some 50,000 Muslims are off-shored beyond reach of law & rights, respect & dignity – is in NE Syria. Over two dozen Muslim Canadians – men, women & kids – are illegally detained there under conditions the UN calls akin to torture because Ottawa either refuses to repatriate them or has offered to repatriate children only if they are forcibly separated from their mothers. There is no clean water, nutritious food or proper medical care. The men’s prison cells are packed with bone-thin prisoners, many with amputated limbs.
Over one year later, Canada still refuses, going all the way to the Supreme Court to block their return, thereby participating in the illegal practice of forced exile.Learn more about this pressing human rights issue and how Canadian complicity in arbitrary detention, torture, and violations of a full course of international human rights law stands in sharp contrast to Canada’s image as a feminist, humanitarian global player.