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Blog Entries by Irwin Cotler from 05/2012

Why I'm Pleading Clemency for the Last Canadian on Death Row

| Posted 05.02.2012 | Canada

Alberta-born Ronald Allan Smith is the only Canadian on death row in the United States. With his death sentence under review, I recently sent letters requesting that clemency be granted in the case. I petitioned the Governor because at issue in this case are fundamental -- and sacrosanct -- rights set out in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Iranian Negotiations Could Be Explosive

| Posted 05.24.2012 | Canada Politics

Negotiations over Iran's nuclear program between Iran and six major powers began Wednesday. Given the Iranian pattern of denial, deception, and delay, the whole while uranium continues to be enriched and centrifuges continue to spin, only a verifiable abandonment by Iran of its nuclear weapons pursuits will suffice.

Since When Did the Right to Protect Become the Right to Protect Syria's Massacres?

| Posted 05.31.2012 | Canada Politics

Clearly, the deployment of 290 unarmed UN monitors, not unlike the initial deployment of Arab League monitors, has ended up with the monitors being observers to the killing rather than a protection force to prevent the killing to begin with.