Guantánamo court
The Canadian Press – April 23, 2022 / 10:15 am | History: 366863
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Former Guantanamo detainee Mohamed Ould Slahi talks about his experiences during a CIA interrogation via video from his home in Mauritania to a group against torture in Raleigh, North Carolina, November 30, 2017.
A former Guantanamo Bay detainee is suing the Canadian government over his alleged role in his 14 years behind bars marked by torture and intimidation.
Mohamed Ould Slahi, a Moorish man who has lived in Montreal for two months, sued for $ 35 million on Friday, claiming that improper intelligence provided by Canadian authorities contributed to his detention at the U.S. Naval Prison, where he said that he had suffered severe beatings, sleep deprivation and sexual abuse.
Slahi’s lawsuit, whose story became a best-selling memoir and Hollywood film, alleges that surveillance by the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service and the RCMP was submitted to his U.S. interrogators, whose “torture” broke him and caused false confessions. a plan to blow up the CN Tower – which he had never heard of.
Slahi, now a 51-year-old writer at a Dutch theater company, left Canada in 2000 after authorities began questioning him about his links to Ahmed Resam, a so-called millennial bomber who planned to attack Los Angeles airport. they had briefly visited the same mosque in Montreal.
The Federal Court of Canada ruled in 2009 that Slahi, who was once a permanent resident, was not entitled to intelligence documents because he was neither a citizen nor subject to legal proceedings in Canada.
Mustafa Farooq, head of the National Council of Canadian Muslims, says Canada’s complicity in the torture of Canadians stems from Islamophobic stereotypes and that accountability is needed.
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