Amnesty International's Canadian branch is urging the federal government to allow more openness in its controversial security certificate system. The certificates are a counter-terrorism measure which allow for the arrest, detention and deportation of non-citizens deemed to be threats to national security. Evidence and allegations against them may be kept secret. In a paper to be presented at a UN human rights committee meeting in Geneva on Monday, Amnesty says the security rules should be changed to allow more openness. "The process does not conform to a number of essential international legal standards, which are meant to safeguard against the very possibility of arbitrary detention," the paper says.

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