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FTAA: Current Intel |
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by Commandante Lucas
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09 Apr 2001
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Interesting report on Canadian government intimidation of prosecutors in advance of the FTAA meeting. |
MONTREAL GAZETTE: Quebec prosecutors are threatening to quit a special
eight-member team set up by the provincial government to prosecute protesters
arrested at the Summit of the Americas this month. They are objecting to what they
claim is political interference with the judiciary on the part of summit organizers. One
prosecutor has already left the team, and others are expected to follow. Prosecutors
say provincial Justice Minister Paul Begin has directed them to delay all bail hearings
of arrested protesters for the maximum three full days allowed by law, as a way of
keeping them off the street for the duration of the summit, April 20-22. "This is political
interference, and we should not stand for it," said one prosecutor who did not wish to
be named. "It's a plan of battle to hold them in jail. We will not accept these directives." |
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