Former Captive Opposes Detention Without Trial
by TChris
As a former hostage in Iraq, James Loney knows what it's like to be detained without having access to family or to a legal system that can restore the unjust deprivation of freedom. He's protesting Canada's practice of detaining five suspected foreign terrorists indefinitely.
In an interview, Loney told The Canadian Press that he feels both an obligation to, and kinship with, the Muslim men currently detained as threats to national security. He said he was especially grateful that three of the detainees wrote an open letter in early December, just days after he was kidnapped, urging his captors to free their hostages.
A protest march that began yesterday in Toronto will end June 10 in Ottawa, where protestors will stage a week-long vigil.
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