Posted AT 6:12 PM EDT on 12/03/08
Detainees do not have Charter rights: judge
Human-rights groups were handed a minor victory and a major defeat Wednesday in their bid to halt the transfer of Canadian-captured Taliban fighters to Afghan authorities.
A Federal Court judge ruled the legal obligations of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms cannot be extended to cover Canadian soldiers who seize militants on foreign soil.
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