Close Canada's Guantanamo Bay - International Voices Join MPs in Call for Repatriation from Syria

Written By Freedom Campaign

Press Conference / Public Event - June 23rd, 2022

The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) hosted a panel of experts, who called on the Canadian government to repatriate 44 citizens being held in indefinite, life threatening detention in Northeastern Syria.

Speakers:

  • Moazzam Begg | UK CAGE Director of Outreach & Former Guantanamo Detainee

  • Matthew Behrens | Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture

  • Tim McSorley | National Co-ordinator, ICLMG

  • Taha Ghayyur | Executive Director, Justice for All

  • Sally Lane | Mother of Jack Letts, Detainee in Syria

  • Elizabeth May | MP, Green Party of Canada

  • Monia Mazigh | Academic and Author

  • Natascha Mikkelsen | Co-founder & Director, Repatriate the Children - Denmark

  • Nafeesa Mohammed | Attorney & Former Senator of Trinidad and Tobago

  • Heather McPherson | MP, NDP & Foreign Affairs Critic

  • Clive Stafford Smith | Attorney & Co-founder, Reprieve

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