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REPORT: Canada's hate speech laws may have been created by the same organization spreading online hate. The Canadian Anti-Hate Network's Legal Counsel Richard Warman spent years disguising himself as a Neo-Nazi Online, where he spewed vile, homophobic, racist, and anti-semitic rhetoric to entrap people on chat forms so he...

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📢TURKEY'S TARGETING OF CHILDREN UNDER THE GUISE OF THE FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM WAS RAISED AT OSCE. ▶️Our representative Coşkun Yorulmaz spoke on behalf of Solidarity With OTHERS at the Human Dimension Conference 2024, which is organized every year by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and attended by high-level bureaucrats from member states. ▶️In the speech, the unjust detentions of thousands of people and the case including 15 children, which was held on September 23-27, were mentioned. International organizations and human rights defenders were requested to follow the hearings in December. OSCE OSCE/ODIHR "According to the Turkish government figures, as of July of this year, over seven hundred thousand individuals have been investigated under the country’s anti-terrorism legislation. More than three hundred thousand people have been taken into police custody and at least a hundred thousand people have been imprisoned. On the other hand, between 2015 and 2021, more than fifteen thousand children under the age of 18 have been prosecuted for terrorism-related offences. Mass arrests still continue. On May the fourteenth earlier this year, more than five hundred people were arrested in a single day as part of a nationwide police operation. The extent of Turkiye’s abuse of its anti-terror laws continues to draw criticism from international human rights bodies. The UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention expressed deep concern that the widespread and systematic targeting of individuals for their alleged links to the Gülen Movement could amount to crime against humanity. The European Court of Human Rights has, on the other hand, consistently found that Turkiye's application of its anti-terror laws was overly broad and allowed arbitrary prosecution of individuals without evidence which linked them to any armed conduct. We as human rights lawyers unfortunately observe an emerging trend in Turkiye where children of people who have previously been prosecuted under anti-terror laws are also being targeted. In May earlier this year, the Istanbul Police in separate operations arrested forty individuals including fifteen minors, aged between thirteen and seventeen for being members of an armed terrorist organisation. The children later complained about being interrogated in the absence of their lawyers or a psychologist, being constantly threatened and verbally abused during interrogations, being denied food although they were kept in police custody for nearly 24 hours. They also noted that they were pressured to testify against their own parents. Their case was heard by an assize court in Istanbul last week. The evidence against the children include nothing but social conduct such as meeting in each others’ homes to study together, going to shopping malls together and strangely enough playing bowling together. All of these innocent social conduct were recorded by police surveillance teams and presented to the court as recruitment activity. The next court hearing of the children will be held in Istanbul in December in a couple of months. The Turkish authorities should perhaps take it as an opportunity to show to the international organisations to which it is a member and of course to the world at large that the rule of law still prevails within its borders. On the other hand, we urge OSCE and its member states to monitor the said proceedings closely. We also ask our fellow human rights defenders to offer their support to the defendants and their lawyers. I thank you."

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The Free Speech Union has always been clear that the right to free speech does not include the right to break the law in an attempt to silence others or deprive them of their freedom of speech through fear and intimidation. Tonight in the House of Lords, FSU General Secretary Lord Young of Acton spoke in favour of Amendment 370A to the Crime and Policing Bill. Last Monday, the Free Speech Union was the victim of a malicious attack by a militant pro-trans ‘direct action’ group that encourages its supporters to steal hammers and take action against Members of Parliament. This is the same group that graffitied the Health Secretary’s constituency office — painting “child killer” on his window — vandalised the offices of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), and disrupted a women’s conference in Brighton. The group sought to silence us for defending the right of citizens — whom they disagree with — to express their views freely. Everyone has the right to disagree. Healthy, robust debate strengthens our policymaking and society. But groups that engage in criminal activity — including advocating violence — restrict the liberties of others. This is wrong. The amendment would create a new category of “Extreme Criminal Protest Groups” (ECPGs), targeting organisations that deliberately break the law to influence public policy or intimidate those defending our fundamental rights. Watch Lord Young below 👇

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Human rights lawyer says Neufeld decision signals troubling expansion of hate speech standards Human rights lawyer, Hatim Kheir, argues the B.C. tribunal’s finding that distinguishing biological sex from gender identity constitutes hate speech reflects a broader shift in how human rights law defines harm and limits debate. Constitutional and human rights lawyer, Hatim Kheir, says the recent ruling against former Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld highlights the expansive powers of human rights tribunals. Human rights commissions are like quasi-judicial bodies that do not operate under the same procedural safeguards as traditional courts. The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ordered Neufeld to pay $750,000 after concluding that his public comments distinguishing biological sex from gender identity amounted to hate speech and created a “poisoned” environment. Kheir acknowledged that the tribunal cited Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence establishing a high threshold for hatred, requiring extreme detestation or vilification. However, he said the tribunal’s application of that standard represents a notable development in what qualifies as hate speech. According to the ruling, separating gender identity from biological sex constitutes an “existential denial” of transgender people. The tribunal found that asserting the two are not equivalent effectively erases transgender individuals and contributes to the promotion of hatred, rendering Neufeld’s remarks discriminatory under human rights law. This reasoning narrows the space for public debate on gender identity policy and signals a broader interpretation of hate speech within human rights proceedings, with potential implications for freedom of expression in Canada.

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