Posted on 26/01/08
Charter covers prisoners, court told
OTTAWA -- When Canadian troops marched into southern Afghanistan to wage war on the Taliban, they carried the constitutional embrace of the Charter with them, and its protections extend to prisoners they capture on distant battlefields, groups fighting the government in Federal Court argued yesterday.
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