Appeal For The Release of Evidence Through The Canadian Justice System
Ahcene Zemiri and Mohammedou Slahi appealed through the Canadian Justice system for the release of classified documents about these two former Canadian residents. Both men were interviewed by Canadian security officials before leaving Canada for Afghanistan. The men's lawyers argued that the notes from the men's Canadian interviews would have been relied on by the Americans, when building their own dossiers against the two men. They had requested the Canadian evidence in order to make their case for the men's freedom in the US Justice system.
Justice Edmond Blanchard ruled that since the men weren't Canadian citizens, and their connection to Canada was "tenuous", the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms didn't apply to them. Zemiri live for seven years in Canada, and his wife and son are Canadian citizens. The Supreme Court of Canada had ruled that the Canadian government should publish classified documents the Americans had shared about Canadian citizen Omar Khadr.
Nathan Whitling one of the men's Canadian lawyers, predicted that the men's American habeas corpus cases would have been heard before the appeal he planne of Blanchard's ruling.
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