Diab Still Imprisoned on Suspect Charge: Canadian Victim of French Politics and Kangaroo Court System

Canada must demand fair investigation by France in case of Hassan Diab

by Justice for Hassan Diab

November 11, 2015  


With the one-year anniversary of his pretrial detention approaching, Dr. Hassan Diab remains in prison in the vicinity of Paris.

He has been in detention for one year, since the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear his case on November 13, 2014, and was extradited to France the following day.

Read the full article in The Globe and Mail: 'Canada must demand fair investigation by France in case of Hassan Diab,' by Gerald Caplan, The Globe and Mail, November 9, 2015

“This is the first anniversary of Dr. Diab’s extradition. He is not doing well. Immediately on reaching France, he was imprisoned. Last week, he was denied bail. Whatever else, his life, and that of his family in Canada, remains a nightmare. They insist on his total innocence, and seem to have much evidence to back them up…

[W]hat Canada can do is strongly demand a fair process from France. Surely all the faulty handwriting analyses should be discarded, as they were in Canada, as well as all the unsourced intelligence that was withdrawn in Canada. In other words, we must demand that no tainted evidence is used against Dr. Diab…”