With the active support of Global Affairs Canada, on Jan. 14 2018, Hassan Diab returned to Canada after spending 38 months in a French maximum security prison, never formally charged nor tried in court. In April 2023, Diab was tried in absentia, sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered his arrest. Diab and his family live a stressful life in limbo, not … Read more
On April 21, the Special Assize Court in Paris found Dr. Hassan Diab guilty in absentia of perpetrating the Oct. 3, 1980, bomb attack outside a synagogue on rue Copernic. Diab’s trial of the past three weeks has been a damning demonstration of the legitimacy of Justice Robert Maranger‘s misgivings and his disquiet at believing that Canada’s Extradition … Read more
The trial of Dr. Hassan Diab opens in a Paris anti-terrorist court on April 3. It is essential that everything possible be done to ensure that this scapegoating and miscarriage of justice are ended. The Canadian government must immediately make it clear that any future request for Diab’s extradition to France is unacceptable and will not be … Read more
Hassan Diab‘s many supporters and friends launched an initiative in which they demand that Canada take all necessary steps to ensure that Diab will not face a second extradition to France. Many hundreds of phone calls and messages from across Canada and abroad will be sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.), reminding him of his commitment made on June 20, 2018, when he said: “I think, for Hassan Diab, we have to recognize first of all that what happened to him never should have happened, […] … Read more
Dr. Hassan Diab and his lawyer, Guy Pratte, announced that a Statement of Claim has been filed in Ontario Superior Court against the Government of Canada seeking justice for its role in Dr. Diab’s extradition to France in 2014. The claim contends the government withheld crucial exculpatory fingerprint evidence from Dr. Diab prior to the committal hearing. “It … Read more
In France, Judges Jean-Marc Herbaut and Richard Foltzer dismissed the allegations against Canadian Dr. Hassan Diab and ordered his immediate release from detention. Don Bayne, Diab’s lawyer in Canada, remarked, “We’re elated, relieved and thankful. Thankful to the French judges for their wisdom and courage to buck political and social pressure to make a completely just … Read more
For the eighth time, the French Court of Appeal quashed a release order for Canadian academic Dr. Hassan Diab, as he marks three years in pre-trial detention. The French investigative judges in charge of the case found that there is “consistent evidence” that Dr. Diab was not in France at the time of the 1980 … Read more
This week a fourth French judge ordered the release of Canadian professor Dr. Hassan Diab on bail from a Paris prison where he has been behind bars for three years. This marks the eighth release order of Diab by four different French judges; but, as on seven prior occasions, the Paris prosecutor immediately filed an … Read more
Dr. Hassan Diab was informed that recently officials of a foreign state met with the French investigative judges offering their help in getting him charged instead of freed and returned to Canada. Don Bayne, Diab’s lawyer in Canada, noted that “Dr. Diab has been pleading for help from the Canadian government in his Kafkaesque situation … Read more
NDP MP Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway, B.C.) will present a Parliamentary petition that urges the Canadian government to intervene to bring Dr. Hassan Diab home. The petition was signed by thousands of Canadians and Permanent Residents. In addition to the petition, an Open Letter signed by hundreds of Diab’s supporters was sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.), Foreign Affairs Minister … Read more
