[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: Toornto Friends, Hope you can Attend March 16 Event, Reasonable Cause to Suspect: A Book Launch and Discussion

[Brenda Holtkamp]

FYI….you may be interested. My fiend Matthew Behrens will be speaking at
the book launch.

Peace!

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From: tasc <tasc at web.ca>
Date: Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Subject: Toornto Friends, Hope you can Attend March 16 Event, Reasonable
Cause to Suspect: A Book Launch and Discussion
To: Matthew Behrens <tasc at web.ca>


Hi folks

Hoping you are doing well. I will be in Toronto March 16 to speak at this
event, which I am hoping you can share with your networks and perhaps
attend too! It is about one of the most atrocious examples I have seen in
decades of Canadian complicity in the arbitrary detention of its citizens.

Many thanks!

Matthew Behrens



Reasonable Cause to Suspect: A Book Launch and Discussion on the obstacles
preventing the repatriation from Northeast Syria of over two dozen
arbitrarily detained Canadian Muslim men, women, and children.
Saturday, March 16, 7 pm. Free, Iftar refreshments provided
Friends House, 60 Lowther (At St. George subway)
With:
Sally Lane, whose son Jack Letts has been wrongfully defamed by an
inflammatory UK media and illegally held almost 7 years under conditions
the UN calls “akin to torture”
Asiya Hirji, counsel for two mothers of six children, all illegally
detained in NE Syria
Barb Jackman, counsel for Jack Letts
Hadayt Nazami, lawyer and member of 2023 NE Syria delegation
Azeezah Kanji, legal scholar and rights advocate
Presented by Toronto Quakers Peace and Social Action Committee, Stop
Canadian Involvement in Torture, U of T International Human Rights Program,
with support of Another Story, who will be selling books on site.
Background
Guantanamo in the Desert – where 50,000 Muslims are off-shored in NE Syria,
beyond reach of law & rights, respect & dignity. Over two dozen Muslim
Canadians – men, women & kids – are illegally detained there under
conditions the UN calls akin to torture because Ottawa either refuses to
repatriate them or has offered to repatriate children only if they are
forcibly separated from their mothers. There is no clean water, nutritious
food or proper medical care. The men’s prison cells are packed with
bone-thin prisoners, many with amputated limbs.
In January, 2023, a Federal Court judge called on Ottawa to repatriate
them, noting: “Canadians are dying or at risk of dying every day this
matter is adjourned.” Over one year later, Canada still refuses, going all
the way to the Supreme Court to block their return, thereby participating
in the illegal practice of forced exile

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