Canadian Court Rules Human Rights Trump U.N. Terrorism Sanctions

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Saturday, August 1, 2009
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
Volume: 
25
Issue: 
8
Abstract: 
On June 4, 2009, Justice Russel W. Zinn ruled that the Canadian government had to comply with the right to enter Canada under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the Charter) notwithstanding the fact that the U.N. Security Council 1267 Committee plaintiff and Sudanese citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik as an associate of Al-Qaida...(more)