Translation of "Juge consulaire " (French → English) :

The rest – including the EU citizens involved – are undoubtedly dangerous or a source of ongoing useful intelligence and should either be tried for war crimes, if appropriate, at standards compatible with international norms or held in humane conditions as illegal combatants for the duration of the war, with Red Cross and consular access, until Mr Osama bin Laden is captured and formally surrenders his terrorist network and their declared war on the West.

14. Considers that a common minimum standard should include the right of a person to contact their consular representative or an appropriate organisation without delay and the consequent requirement for the Member States to provide consular assistance (even where all the Member States are already bound by existing national, EU and international instruments) and to make their consular representation responsible for upholding the rights of their nationals abroad when they are charged with, or arrested for, allegedly having committed an offence, and should also lay down a requirement for the police, judicial or prison authorities (as approp ...[+++]riate) to inform foreigners who have been arrested (and to do so immediately upon their arrest) that they may notify their country's consul regarding the circumstances of their arrest, ask the consul to visit them or establish contact with them and with their family; penalties should also be laid down, to be imposed in the event of non-compliance;

15. Considers that a minimum common standard should include the right of a person to contact their Consular representative or an appropriate organisation without delay and the consequent requirement for the Member States to provide consular assistance (even where all the Member States are already bound by existing national, EU and international instruments) and to make their consular representation responsible for upholding the rights of their nationals abroad when they are charged with, or arrested for, allegedly having committed an offence, and should also lay down a requirement for the police, judicial or prison authorities (as approp ...[+++]riate) to immediately inform foreigners who have been arrested (and to do so immediately upon their arrest) that they may notify their country’s consul regarding the circumstances of their arrest, ask the consul to visit them or establish contact with them and with their family; penalties should also be laid down, to be imposed in the event of non-compliance;

In particular, the amendments to the Consular Fee (Specialized Services) Regulations remove two fees that the committee found to be unlawful.

This inquiry, established by the government in response to a recommendation made by Justice O’Connor following the report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar (2.7 Mb, 636 pages) in 2006, was designed to determine (1) whether the incarceration of the parties in question in Syria and Egypt was the result, directly or indirectly, of the actions of Canadian officials, (2) whether there had been shortcomings in the provision of the consular services by Canadian officials to the parties in question during their incarceration, and (3) whether any of the torture administered to them was t ...[+++]he result of the actions of Canadian officials.

This inquiry, established by the government in response to a recommendation made by Justice O’Connor following the report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar in 2006, was designed to determine (1) whether the incarceration of the parties in question in Syria and Egypt was the result, directly or indirectly, of the actions of Canadian officials, (2) whether there had been shortcomings in the provision of the consular services by Canadian officials to the parties in question during their incarceration, and (3) whether any of the torture administered to them was the result of the act ...[+++]ions of Canadian officials.