Original author: Canadian Press
Source: 900News.com
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Date: March 26, 2005

TORONTO (CP) - Canada's system of jailing suspected foreign terrorists indefinitely or deporting them to countries where they face a real risk of torture is under growing scrutiny and will likely have to change significantly, several experts say.

Judges, politicians and civil libertarians have been grappling with a system that does away with some of the most basic protections Canadians cherish in the interests of national security.

Those protections include the right not to be detained arbitrarily, the right to know the evidence the state has when it detains someone and the right to test that evidence in open court.

The issue of how best to protect the country while safeguarding basic individual rights is taxing democracies around the world.

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