(CBC) Hassan Diab and his lawyer are accusing the federal government of perpetrating a “whitewash” after an external review, released today, concluded government lawyers acted ethically and followed proper procedures in extraditing him to France for a terrorism case that later fell apart.
“My suffering and that of my family was prolonged by senior officials at the Department of Justice,” Diab told a press conference this afternoon. “I trusted the government’s promise that what happened to me would never happen to anyone else.”
Former deputy attorney general of Ontario Murray Segal, tasked by the federal government with the external review, wrote in the conclusion of his report that “(counsel) acted in a manner that was ethical and consistent — both with the law and … practices and policies.”
