Muhammad Iqbal kills and lapidated 2 of his wifes? What kind of religion that is?

Muhammad Iqbal said police did nothing to stop the stoning

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has described the stoning to death of a woman by her family in front of a Lahore court as "totally unacceptable".

Farzana Parveen, who was three months pregnant, was pelted with bricks and bludgeoned by relatives furious because she married against their wishes.

Her husband told the BBC that police simply stood by during the attack.

Lahore's police chief has denied this and said Ms Parveen had been killed by the time police arrived at the scene.

There are hundreds of so-called "honour killings" in Pakistan each year.

This incident has prompted particular outrage as it took place in daylight while police and members of the public reportedly stood by and did nothing to save her.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has ordered the chief minister of Punjab province to take "immediate action" and submit a report by Thursday evening.

'Inhuman'

"They watched Farzana being killed and did nothing," her husband, Muhammad Iqbal, told the BBC.

Mr Iqbal described the police as "shameful" and "inhuman" for their failure to stop the attack.

 Police questioned witnesses as Ms Parveen's bloodied body lay on the pavement

"We were shouting for help, but nobody listened. One of my relatives took off his clothes to capture police attention but they didn't intervene," he added.

Another witness told Reuters news agency that police ignored the attack.

"Policemen were standing outside the High Court, but no policeman came forward. In spite of the noise, no policeman took the trouble of coming forward to save her," the witness, who was not named, said.

However, Lahore police chief Shafique Ahmad questioned Mr Iqbal's credibility, and told the BBC that police did not stand by while the attack occurred.

Police were a distance away, and were told by a member of the public that a scuffle was taking place outside the court, Mr Ahmad said.

By the time police arrived, Ms Parveen had been killed after being hit on the head with a brick, he added.

Arranged marriages are the norm in Pakistan, and to marry against the wishes of the family is unthinkable in many deeply conservative communities.

Judge Andrée Ruffo - Moussa Sidimé killed his daughter 13 year-old - 60 days in prison

Judge Andrée Ruffo

Moussa Sidimé killed his daughter of 13-year-old

It is shameful judgment like this in a country like ours, " said former Judge Andrée Ruffo about the sentence of 60 days imprisonment imposed Wednesday Moussa Sidimé assené who had a fatal slap her daughter 13 years.

Asked Thursday by Mario Dumont on LCN-TV, Ruffo recalled in Canada, there are laws that protect children and that corporal punishment is prohibited .

"People are sufficiently informed with respect to these laws when they get here?" Has she asked , adding that this "little sentence" 60 days in jail sends a message that "you can abuse children continue , it is not that bad . "

She also called angry by the fact that members of the Guinean community have said they did not expect that the father was sentenced to prison. According to her, if her child hit " is acceptable in Guinea, it is not in Canada."

Ruffo also said she hopes that this decision will be appealed . "Justice is imperfect and that is why the Court of Appeal. The judge applied the law, but has not done justice. He died there of a child. She died because she was washing the floor evil, according to his father, "said Ruffo .

Former judge juvenile court has also asked why the girl was at home doing housework a day of class. "She lived with her father, mother and two brothers. She was always good , the slave, the drudge of the family ? We do not know what happened in that family . "

Pierre Hughe Boisvenu Senator - Moussa Sidimé killed his 13 years-old daughter - 60 days in prison in Quéebec

Moussa Sidimé killer

Pierre Hughe Boisvenu

Pierre -Hugues Boisvenu announced yesterday he left the presidency of the Association for the Defence of Families of Persons Assassinated or Disappeared ( AFPAD ) , which he founded five years ago with three other bereaved fathers . This role is inconsistent, he agrees with the new Senate career that begin next week. Over the past five years, and in the wake of a personal tragedy , Pierre- Hugues Boisvenu became a public figure. Portrait of man, and also his association, which has had its share of crises during its short existence .

Mr Pierre-Hugues Bienvenu Senator

Pierre -Hugues Boisvenu smokes one cigarette per day . He smokes the night in his garage, or while out on the ground of his comfortable residence Sherbrooke. This unique cigarette smoking , he talks to his two daughters, died tragically three years apart. And, he says , Julie and Isabelle meet him. "They are very good counselors , he says . They say, " It's beautiful . " Or " . Thou hast put a little too much" This is a very dynamic relationship . Very much alive. "
 
These two missing girls who are still in daily mind of a father show how the life of Pierre -Hugues Boisvenu was marked by these tragedies. If Julie had not died murdered by Hugo Bernier in 2002, his father would be a peaceful retired civil servant , absorbed in international cooperation projects . And highchair row in the dining room serve more. " I would not be senator. There would be no association. It might be grandparents, four, five, six times. "
Instead , the president of the Association of Families of Persons Assassinated or Disappeared ( AFPAD ) is sitting in this room with a journalist . The lapel of his gray jacket , he wears sun yellow ribbon became the symbol of his cause. During the massacre at Virginia Tech , he was surprised to see grieving parents wear this ribbon which he had himself chosen color. "The yellow, it symbolizes the light at the end of the tunnel. "

This tunnel of mourning, he crossed twice. "After the death of Isabella, God , for me, was a murderer. " And he saw dozens of families go astray . In infancy AFPAD the helpline sounded straight home . "There was this woman. Her daughter was murdered in the early 90s. She had a lot of rage. One evening , I told him : " Please do not call me anymore. I can not help you, " he says . She was dying with her daughter. "

To enhance his sentence, Pierre- Hugues Boisvenu selected action. He used his experience of the state machine - he worked in seven departments and six regions - to advance his cause. "He also succeeded because he knew the government apparatus ," said his former boss, André Boisclair .

The former minister clearly remembers the day he met Boisvenu, during a meeting of regional directors of the Department. Much to the table, he sat in front of the minister. "We had warned me against his impetuous side channel Boisclair . He distinguished himself by his outspokenness. "

The man knew his records, said the former minister . Boisvenu was born in Ottawa , grew up in Abitibi in a family of 10 children. He has always lived in the region . "I've always been regionalist ," he said. And he got tons of time to get impatient against the standards in force in Quebec . "They have not found me sitting , for sure . "

Impetuosity has also sometimes played tricks on him when it came time to defend the victims. "My role is just to remember . I often tell him be careful , "says Michel Laroche , a former colleague from the Department of Justice who joined the AFPAD , it is, since yesterday, the new president.

There was one year, the Laroche lawyer choked when Boisvenu denounced in a letter to the editor , the " fantasy of rehabilitation" maintained, according to him, by criminologists and judges. " We should not get back to the bench . I thought he was exaggerating a bit. But I could never carry the torch as it does , "says Michel Laroche.

It is true that Pierre -Hugues Boisvenu is not stingy with his opinions. "His ideas are those of an individual right. That does not make him an expert or a reference , "says a source in Quebec . " All his action was recovered for political purposes . The public has increasingly fear of crime. However, the crime rate has decreased significantly , "says criminologist Jean -Claude Bernheim, which defends the rights of detainees.

"Politicians were forced to realize that , legally , with the victims , it was an extreme that made ​​more sense ," retorted Michel Surprenant, one of four bereaved fathers who founded AFPAD . In five years of existence , the pressures of the Association were moved three provincial legislation. The victims' families are better compensated. They can take time off without losing their jobs. We pay their psychotherapy sessions . It is far from the $ 600 funeral expenses that Boisvenu family could claim after the death of his predecessor.

But all is not yellow sun in the association founded by Pierre -Hugues Boisvenu . His appointment to the Senate created a break with his friend Marcel Bolduc , one of the founding fathers. In the forum of the association, Marcel Bolduc holds very harsh on Boisvenu , which , he felt , could not hold the offices of President becoming senator.

" My family denounced the speech of Mr. Boisvenu, who uses his deceased daughter to gain sympathy . It's a little twisted, he wrote. The Conservatives need a person with good visibility , and who knows touch sensitive souls , it took them a kodak kid and Mr. Boisvenu doing well in this area. I regret that Mr. Boisvenu allowed himself to be caught in that trap . It is no longer the man I met five years ago ! "

Mr. Bolduc has refused to grant us an interview .

This is not the first crisis facing AFPAD in its short existence . There is a little over a year after the vice -president , Michele Labelle, was removed from the board, four women have resigned, some of them alleging a conflict of interest . The AFPAD was about to create a post online reference , paid around $ 25,000 per year. Post which had been devoted to ... Marcel Bolduc, himself a member of the board. With the support of Mr. Boisvenu .

Moussa Sidimé killed his 13 year-old daughter - 60 days in prison in Québec

Moussa Sidimé merderer

Longueuil man sentenced to 60 days after slaps of a 13-year-old daughter that killed her

Quebec man who killed teen daughter with slap gets 60 days in jail Add to ...

Ingrid Peritz

MONTREAL — The Globe and Mail

Published Wednesday, May. 21 2014, 12:19 PM EDT

Last updated Wednesday, May. 21 2014, 9:31 PM EDT

A father who killed his teenaged daughter with a slap after she’d failed to do her household chores has been handed a 60-day prison term by a Quebec court, capping a legal case that shined a light on the controversial use of corporal punishment.

Moussa Sidime, 74, was ordered to report for jail next week and serve out his sentence on Mondays and Tuesdays for 30 weeks.

His lawyer, Marie-Josée Duhaime, denied Wednesday that her client got off with a lenient punishment.

“I agree that a slap is an assault,” she said in an interview. “But he is not someone who wanted to kill his daughter by slapping her face.”

The assault that killed 13-year-old Noutene, a popular teen who’d hoped one day to become a lawyer, came after she’d returned home from school in October 2010. Her father told her to clean up the kitchen, then went to his room to take a nap.

Mr. Sidime twice returned to the kitchen and, dissatisfied with the job, told his daughter to continue, the court was told. As he turned to leave the room, he heard the teenager mumble what he took to be insults under her breath.

He confronted her and then slapped her twice, causing a vertebral artery to rupture in her head. He then slapped her buttocks, leaving her sobbing in the kitchen. A few minutes later, Noutene fell to the ground and never regained consciousness, dying in hospital two days later.

Quebec Court Judge Richard Marleau ruled Wednesday that while Mr. Sidime committed a serious offence that had to be denounced, a variety of mitigating factors had to be weighed in his sentence. The Crown had asked for a prison term of two years less a day.

Mr. Sidime had pleaded guilty to manslaughter and admitted his responsibility, Justice Marleau said. Various family members took turns describing him as a tolerant man and loving father. He had no criminal record, had expressed remorse, and “suffered as much as the rest of the family from the death of his child,” the judge wrote.

A pathologist concluded that the injury that killed Noutene might have been caused either directly by the slaps, or by the girl’s attempt to avoid the violence by turning her head. There were no marks on her cheeks.

The case also focused on cultural practices in some immigrant communities. A family friend testified that a slap on the face or buttocks isn’t viewed as a violent act in their community (Mr. Sidime emigrated to Canada from Guinea). The judge agreed that cultural differences could not be ruled out in the case.

The same theme was taken up by Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, a Conservative senator and advocate for victims’ rights, who addressed the question of cultural values in an interview with a Montreal radio station on Wednesday.

“I don’t know Guinean society, but you can see there is a gap between this culture and Quebec’s,” Mr. Boisvenu told 98.5 FM.

He said hitting a child is a form of violence “and justice must always render exemplary sentences,” noting that the Harper government had invested money to sensitize ethnic communities.

“This type of [corporal] punishment … toward girls and women in particular – it’s rare that boys are struck, it’s especially girls and women who are hit – is accepted, and it’s a form of power over these people,” Mr. Boisvenu said.

In Montréal, Québec

Ms. Duhaime, the defence lawyer, played down the issue. “In my youth – I’ve been practising law for 25 years – there were slaps. No one got worked up about it when someone got a tap on the backside, and in the not-so-distant past.”

Mr. Sidime also faces two years’ probation. He made no comment as he left the courtroom on the South Shore of Montreal, surrounded by supporters

Alain Laprise 25 mai 2014

Canada a haven for villains - for terrorists

Canada a haven for villains

Remembering their own immigrant roots, most Canadians like to be generous to newcomers.

But another refugee case, involving a paralysed Sikh, is beginning to test their patience. After entering Canada on a false passport in 2003, Laibar Singh applied for asylum, claiming that he would be tortured if returned to his native Punjab, where he was “falsely” accused of being a Sikh militant. His application was turned down, three times.

Last year, he suffered a stroke that left him paralysed, unable to feed himself and dependent on state-provided medical care. Faced with imminent deportation, he sought sanctuary in July in a Sikh temple near Vancouver, but was arrested when he went to hospital to get treatment.

Last month Stockwell Day, Canada's public-safety minister, granted him a 60-day reprieve on “humanitarian” grounds, after the Sikh community had announced plans for a big protest demonstration. It is now widely expected that Mr Singh will end up being allowed to stay in Canada.

The main reason behind the refugee mess, critics say, is politics. If the Conservatives are to have a chance of forming a majority government after the next general election, they will need to pick up seats in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, where ethnic communities are concentrated. All three national political parties pander to the ethnic vote. None wants to close the back door to new immigrants. Although the polls suggest that ordinary Canadians want the abuse to end, there is no political will. As James Bissett, former head of the Canadian immigration service, says: “It might take a bomb going off here to change this system.”

SINCE the 2001 terrorist attacks, America has been criticising Canada for lax border controls, claiming they had turned the country into “a safe haven” for criminals and terrorists. Canada had seemed to ignore the charge. But on August 31st Stephen Harper's minority Conservative government proudly announced that, for the first time, 80 customs officers along its border with America had been equipped with guns in a first step to arming all its 4,800 border guards by 2017.

Despite government denials, all kinds of undesirables are getting into Canada under the country's dysfunctional “refugee” system. While doing little to save genuine refugees in camps abroad, it has opened the door to queue-jumping economic migrants, big-time crooks and terrorists, as documented in numerous reports (notably from the federal government's security service and auditor-general) over more than 20 years. In 1999, the Americans nabbed an Algerian asylum-seeker as he tried to cross the border from Canada with explosives intended to blow up Los Angeles International Airport.

Canada is the easiest country in the developed world in which to obtain refugee status. Most countries accept no more than around 15% of all applicants, whereas Canada accepts more than half. Attracted by an entitlement to the same legal rights and social benefits as for Canadian citizens, some 25,000 asylum-seekers make their way to Canada every year. Many come from safe, but less generous, third countries, often paying people-smugglers up to $50,000 each for false passports and airline tickets.

Religion and human rights

Once in Canada, they know they will be able to stay—and work—there for at least four years, while pursuing their appeals through the courts. Even if their claims are ultimately rejected, there is a good chance they will never actually be deported; the backlog of unexecuted removal orders is around 50,000. Many end up as citizens.

Canadians have become increasingly incensed by a series of high-profile cases of failed asylum-seekers who should be long gone. The most glaring is that of Mahmoud Mohammed Issa Mohammed, a Palestinian terrorist who took part in an Israeli airline hijacking; one passenger was killed. Ordered to be deported in 1988, he is still in Canada after some 30 appeals and reviews. Lai Changxing, one of China's most wanted criminal suspects, continues to launch appeals from his Vancouver home after being ordered to leave in 2000. And Rakesh Saxena, wanted in Thailand on embezzlement charges, who also lives in Vancouver, has been fighting extradition for the past ten years.

http://www.economist.com/node/9804671?Story_ID=9804671

Mohamed Mahjoub - Certificat de sécurité Canada - terroriste

La Presse, publié le 23 octobre 2013 à 20H05

Mohamed Mahjoub

Un homme d'origine égyptienne, considéré comme une menace terroriste au Canada depuis 13 ans en vertu de preuves qu'il n'a jamais vues, attend impatiemment un jugement décisif dans sa longue saga judiciaire, qui pourrait être annoncé d'un jour à l'autre.

Le juge Edmond Blanchard, de la Cour fédérale, doit décider de la validité du certificat de sécurité nationale imposé à Mohamed Mahjoub, dans un dossier qui a mis en évidence de graves défaillances dans l'appareil de sécurité canadien.

Mercredi, M. Mahjoub s'est dit à la fois nerveux et optimiste quant au jugement de la cour.

La décision devrait répondre trois questions précises: si le gouvernement fédéral a violé les droits fondamentaux de M. Mahjoub; si les procédures intentées contre lui équivalent à un recours abusif; et si le certificat de sécurité en tant que tel est raisonnable.

Mohamed Mahjoub, un résident de Toronto âgé de 53 ans, père de trois enfants, se bat contre les allégations du gouvernement voulant qu'il soit un haut responsable d'un groupe terroriste en Égypte qui n'a peut-être jamais existé, appelé «Avant-garde de la conquête».

Dans les années 1990, M. Mahjoub a également travaillé à un projet agricole au Soudan dirigé par Oussama ben Laden, chef du réseau terroriste Al-Qaïda. Ses avocats maintiennent qu'il s'agissait d'un projet légitime à l'époque.

M. Mahjoub était visé par un certificat de sécurité, qui permet la détention pour une durée indéterminée sans accusation et sans procès, alors que le Canada tentait de le déporter en Égypte, où il affirmait qu'il risquait d'être torturé.

Au fil des procédures judiciaires qui se déroulent depuis plusieurs années, M. Mahjoub a notamment appris que le Service canadien du renseignement de sécurité (SCRS) avait détruit les documents originaux utilisés pour déterminer qu'il représentait une menace.

De plus, le SCRS a admis que des services de renseignement étrangers qui ont fourni des informations au Canada étaient liés à des actes de torture, mais n'a fait aucun effort pour exclure ces informations du dossier.

Des responsables de la sécurité ont également admis qu'ils avaient écouté à répétition les conversations téléphoniques entre Mohamed Mahjoub et son avocat, une violation du sacro-saint secret professionnel.

En conséquence, affirment les partisans de M. Mahjoub, les procédures sont irrémédiablement viciés et les preuves retenues contre lui sont faibles, au mieux.

Selon ses avocats, le gouvernement a délibérément violé la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés, et miné le système judiciaire à ses propres fins.

En 2008, la Cour suprême du Canada a jugé que le régime des certificats de sécurité était inconstitutionnel, mais le gouvernement a amendé la loi et a réimposé un certificat de sécurité à Mohamed Mahjoub et à quatre autres étrangers de confession musulmane

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/national/201310/23/01-4702967-jugement-tres-attendu-sur-un-egyptien-vise-par-un-certificat-de-securite.php

Hassan Lamrei National Security Certificate Canada - terrorist

National Security Certificate

Hassan Almrei

Misbah Karim published May 05, 2008

Hassan Almrei may have spent the last seven years of his life in isolation behind the bars but the spy service of Canada still believes that if he is released then his reputation in terrorism circles and ability to easily get false documents poses a danger to Canada.

A senior officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service testified yesterday that 34-year-old  Almrei shares the ideology of Al Qaeda or similar groups, and these people always get fake documents for their operations.

The intelligence officer identified as Sukhvindar told the Federal Court that he believes that Mr. Almrei has the background, the training, the expertise, the willingness and the commitment to follow the ideologies of Al Qaeda and similar groups.

The government doesn’t allege that Almrei is an Al Qaeda member, but that since he has the family background associated with someone who fought in Afghanistan after Soviet occupation, he would be seen as an ‘icon’ among fundamentalist.

People who are supporting Almrei have criticized the immigration law under which he is held and argued that even if he had been charged criminally for providing false documents then he would have already served his sentence.

Such controversial “national security certificates” have already faced numerous court challenges. Almrei’s lawyer, Lorne Waldman, argued yesterday that without any end in sight to the current litigation, keeping Almrei in prison amounts to detention for indefinite period.

Almrei is one of the five non-citizens whom the government is desperately trying to deport. Of the five, Almrei is the only one who is not released. His detention review this week is the fourth time he has applied for release. His past efforts failed largely because, unlike the other four main, Almrei is not married and he does not have his family in Canada who can supervise him.

The question looming over these cases is that whether or not can Canada deport non-citizens who are likely to be tortured or killed, once they are back home. In 2001, Almrei was accepted as refugee in Canada based on the fact that his father was involved with the Islamic Group, the Muslim Brotherhood, and this was likely to put his life to risk if he returned to Syria. But after 9/11, the government imprisoned him after signing a national security certificate.

The hearing of Almrei’s case continues in Ottawa next Wednesday and it is yet to be seen as to which way the case finally heads.

http://www.canadaupdates.com/blogs/hassan_Almrei_is_a_threat_to_canada_if_released-9096.html