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pritchke · 09-04-2003, 05:58 PM

UN criticizes Canada

GENEVA (AP) - Canada breached an international human rights treaty by sending a convicted killer back to death row in Pennsylvania, a United Nations body said Thursday.

The UN Human Rights Committee said Canadian authorities were wrong to deport Roger Judge in 1998 after he had served a separate 10-year term in Quebec for crimes committed in Canada. Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, "for countries that have abolished the death penalty, there is an obligation not to expose a person to the real risk of its application," the committee said in a ruling published Thursday. Canada abolished the death penalty in 1972.

"By deporting (Judge) to the United States where he was under sentence of death, Canada established the crucial link in the causal chain that would make possible (his) execution," said the committee.

It said Canada failed to demand guarantees from U.S. authorities that Judge, an American citizen, would not be executed, and also broke the rules by sending him to the United States before he had time to lodge a final appeal against his expulsion.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/20...176203-ap.html

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09-04-2003, 05:58 PM	#1
pritchke Bastet - Egyptian Cat Goddess Join Date: September 5, 2001 Location: Calgary, AB Age: 50 Posts: 3,491	UN criticizes Canada GENEVA (AP) - Canada breached an international human rights treaty by sending a convicted killer back to death row in Pennsylvania, a United Nations body said Thursday. The UN Human Rights Committee said Canadian authorities were wrong to deport Roger Judge in 1998 after he had served a separate 10-year term in Quebec for crimes committed in Canada. Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, "for countries that have abolished the death penalty, there is an obligation not to expose a person to the real risk of its application," the committee said in a ruling published Thursday. Canada abolished the death penalty in 1972. "By deporting (Judge) to the United States where he was under sentence of death, Canada established the crucial link in the causal chain that would make possible (his) execution," said the committee. It said Canada failed to demand guarantees from U.S. authorities that Judge, an American citizen, would not be executed, and also broke the rules by sending him to the United States before he had time to lodge a final appeal against his expulsion. http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/20...176203-ap.html [ 09-04-2003, 05:59 PM: Message edited by: pritchke ]