Abousfian Abdelrazik was arrested during a 2003 visit to his mother in Sudan. He spent the next six years in prison or in forced exile at the Canadian embassy in Khartoum as his attempts to return to Canada were continuously rejected by the federal government. He was never charged.
This is how you create terrorists.
Last month, the Crown filed a motion asking that six of its witnesses be allowed to testify behind closed doors "to avoid injury to Canada's international relations, national defence and/or national security." The witnesses in question are current and former members of CSIS, the RCMP and Global Affairs Canada.
If you need secrecy to protect your international relations, you're up to some dirty shit.
"The open court principle is especially important in this case because it involves allegations of malfeasance and complicity in serious human rights abuses by senior government officials," he writes.
Goddamn right. The man was imprisoned and (allegedly) tortured. You need to explain that.