Monte Solberg Receives Torture Teach-In At His First Toronto Appearance

Colle, flustered at first, continued speaking as banners behind him were flashed to the crowd: "Canada: Stop Deportations to Torture" and "Stop Secret Trials in Canada." Also prominently displayed were large placards which described in painful detail the specific kinds of torture Canada plans to send the Secret Trial Five to in Syria, Egypt, Algeria, and Morocco. Members of the crowd seemed shocked, and some demonstrably seemed to lose their appetites as they read placards about cigarettes being burned into people's skin, electric prods attached to genitals, and other horrific treatment that Canada increasingly turns a blind eye to, whether it be at Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan (whose hundreds of detainees, held without charge, have yet to experience the freedom, democracy, protection from torture, and other Canadian "values" that Canada's armed forces are supposed to be delivering in Afghanistan!), in Syria (where Canadians like Maher Arar, Ahmad El-Maati, Abdullah Almalki and Muayyad Nureddin were tortured and where the Canadian government wishes to send secret trial detainee Hassan Almrei), or at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (which "houses" Canadian Omar Khadr among hundreds of others). http://www.homesnotbombs.ca/monte.htm [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on March 27, 2006]

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