Hassan Diab Extradition

• Canadian professor Hassan Diab ordered to stand trial in France over 1980 Paris bombing

  Hassan Diab's lawyer, Donald Bayne, calls the ruling inexplicable and says he is considering an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.

  Canada

  May 19, 2021
  
• Trudeau hints at support for Hassan Diab, Ottawa professor facing trial in France

  France recently ordered Hassan Diab to stand trial for a decades-old synagogue bombing in Paris, a move his lawyer called the latest misstep in a long odyssey of injustice.

  Canada

  Mar 3, 2021
  
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• Hassan Diab lawyer denounces French appeal court’s call for client to stand trial

  French authorities suspected Hassan Diab was involved in the 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue that killed four people and injured dozens of others, an accusation he has denied.

  World

  Jan 27, 2021
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• Who is Hassan Diab and why was his extradition so controversial?

  An external probe into the extradition of the Ottawa academic was released Friday.

  Canada

  Jul 26, 2019
• Prosecutors did not break extradition rules with Hassan Diab case: review

  Federal prosecutors who worked on the case did their jobs ethically and within the law, the review states.

  Canada

  Jul 26, 2019
• Hassan Diab pushes for Canadian inquiry as French appeal court orders new review

  The French Court of Appeal's decision sparked immediate rebukes from Diab, his lawyer and human-rights groups, as well as fresh calls for Ottawa to launch a public inquiry into Diab's case.

  Politics

  Oct 26, 2018
• Hassan Diab extradition review to be led by Murray Segal, former Ontario deputy attorney general

  An external probe will examine why Hassan Diab was extradited to France despite serious red flags raised repeatedly about the evidence presented by French prosecutors.

  Canada

  Jul 6, 2018
• Hassan Diab, former Canadian professor, freed after French courts drop terror accusations

  A Lebanese-Canadian academic accused over the deadly 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue is to be freed from custody after the case was dismissed for lack of evidence, legal sources said Friday.

  Canada

  Jan 12, 2018