by Daniel Tubb
Source: The Leveller (Carleton University, Ottawa)
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Date: January 18, 2010

The case for extradition against Hassan Diab, the sociology instructor removed from the classroom by Carleton University administration on July 28, 2009, seems to be unraveling.

Hearings on extraditing Diab to France, originally scheduled for January 4, 2010, have been adjourned indefinitely to allow the French government to review the case. Diab is accused of being behind a 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue.

Assistant Crown Attourney Claude LeFrancois requested the adjournment on December 18, 2009 after Diab’s defence won the right to call witnesses to contest the controversial foundations of the French case against him at the conclusion of the evidentiary hearing on December 11, 2009.

The case for extradition is based on two questionable categories of material submitted as evidence. The first are two French handwriting analyses that possibly link five words on a hotel registry in Paris to Diab. The second is secret intelligence that may link someone with Diab’s name—a common name—to the bombing.

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