Secrecy Hampers Probe: Lawyers

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Former Supreme Court justice Frank Iacobucci was appointed last December to investigate the cases of Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin, all of whom say they were wrongly labelled as terrorists and tortured in Syria or Egypt -- with the complicity of Canadian police and security officers.

Paul Copeland, the lawyer for Almalki, said he's beginning to wonder whether the inquiry can achieve its chief goal of determining whether the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service provided tips to authorities in Syria and Egypt.

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Secrecy Hampers Probe: Lawyers

By Jim Brown

OTTAWA -- A federal inquiry into torture allegations levelled by three Arab-Cana...

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