[Fdu] Independent Jewish Voices stands with Dr. Hassan Diab of Carleton University

[Cynthia Wright]

https://www.ijvcanada.org/ijv-stands-with-hassan-diab-no-evidence-no-new-trial/ 
<https://www.ijvcanada.org/ijv-stands-with-hassan-diab-no-evidence-no-new-trial/>

Independent Jewish Voices Canada <https://www.ijvcanada.org>


  IJV Stands with Hassan Diab: No Evidence, No New Trial

February 1, 2021 IJV Canada

Independent Jewish Voices is calling for immediate action by the 
Canadian government after a French court ruled on January 27th, 2021, to 
proceed to trial in the case of Canadian professor Dr. Hassan Diab. Dr. 
Diab was accused of acts of terrorism in relation to the bombing of a 
Paris synagogue in 1980 – accusations that turned out to be groundless.

It is outrageous that a French court of appeal has decided to overturn 
the dismissal 
<https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/hassan-diab-france-1.5888310?fbclid=IwAR1WhNgQKIiuwMPP8j6JNieMR_9SQVD8ozjQ51wwLEKrC50gAtBpvEh84A4> 
of the case against Hassan Diab and to order a trial. There has been no 
new evidence introduced, and nothing that changes the decision from 
three years ago when the investigating judges released him without charge.

For three years, Dr. Diab languished in a French prison 
<https://iclmg.ca/diab-webcomic/>, away from his family, in near 
solitary confinement, while the French prosecution investigated. Three 
years, and the French prosecution could not make a case for even 
charging him, let alone going to trial.

The families of the victims of the Paris synagogue bombing deserve 
justice, but dragging a clearly innocent man through another baseless 
legal proceeding will bring justice to no one. As Amélie Lefebvre, one 
of Diab’s criminal lawyers in France, points out, the right “to have the 
real perpetrators accountable is not a right that could be satisfied in 
any way with the trial of a man who is innocent and for whom we have so 
[much] evidence that show his innocence.”

*IJV is calling on the Canadian government to take the following three 
actions: *

 1. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Marc
    Garneau must intervene with their French counterparts to put a stop
    to this endless, Kafkaesque affair.
 2. The Prime Minister must put into action his statement of June 20,
    2018
    <https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/hassan-diab-extradition-france-1.5226033>,
    that what happened to Dr. Diab should never happen again, and commit
    to not extraditing him to France a second time.
 3. The government must immediately initiate steps to reform its
    extradition laws to ensure that no other person is forced to suffer
    through the same ordeal as Dr. Diab ever again.

IJV will continue to stand with Dr. Diab, his partner Rania, their 
children and the Justice for Hassan Diab Support Committee until this 
matter is resolved and Dr. Diab is completely free.

For more information and updates on Hassan Diab’s case, visit: 
www.justiceforhassandiab.org <http://www.justiceforhassandiab.org>.

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