A review of the extradition of Ottawa academic Hassan Diab says that the federal prosecutors who worked on the case did their jobs ethically and within the law.
Murray Segal, a former deputy attorney general in Ontario, says extradition law isn’t well understood and the system could work better, but nobody in the case broke rules.
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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 always denied.
The RCMP arrested Diab, who is a Canadian citizen, in 2008 following a request by French authorities and he was sent to France six years later despite an Ontario judge’s acknowledgment that the case against him was weak.
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French judges eventually dismissed the allegations against Diab in January 2018, after he spent years imprisoned there.
Diab, his lawyer and human-rights groups have been urging the federal government to hold a full public inquiry into his case and to reform the Extradition Act to ensure others aren’t caught in the same situation.
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