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There are a number of renowned individuals and organisations that have spoken about entrapment.
Individuals
“The government has developed a technique of engaging targets in conversations of a somewhat provocative nature, and then trying to pick up on things the target says, which might suggest illegal activity — and then trying to push them into pursuing those particular activities.”
Read more HERE.
One of the authors of “Inventing Terrorists” which looks into the preemptive prosecution of Muslims.
Read the study HERE.
“I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that there would have been no crime here, except the government instigated it, planned it and brought it to fruition,” in regards to the “Newburgh Four” case.
Read more HERE.
Published the book The Terror Factory. In it he accused the FBI of waging a “manufactured” war on terror using 15,000 paid informants. Among 158 defendants charged after FBI sting operations, Aaronson found that 49 were snared in plots instigated by an agent provocateur controlled by the FBI.
Read more HERE.
She alongside Jesse Norris (mentioned below) published a study on entrapment in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
They find that found that these methods have been deployed more often to target jihadi and left-wing extremists than to ensnare those on the extreme right.
Mr. Norris published a study that examined undercover operations for signs of entrapment by looking at terrorism prosecutions dating back to 9/11.
The study coded each case for up to 20 signals that an individual had been a victim of this kind of entrapment, such as whether the defendant had no previous involvement in terrorism or whether they had been given some kind of monetary incentive to commit a crime.
Out of 580 cases, 317 involved an informant or undercover agent, and most of those showed signs of entrapment, the study found.
One of the contributors to “Inventing Terror” which looks into the preemptive prosecution of Muslims.
Read more HERE
Organizations
Human Rights Watch
International Non-Governmental Organization
Human Rights Watch’s study ‘Human Rights Abuses in US Terrorism Prosecutions’ examines 27 such cases—from initiation of the investigations to sentencing and post-conviction conditions of confinement—and documents the significant human cost of certain counterterrorism practices, such as aggressive sting operations and unnecessarily restrictive conditions of confinement.
Visit their website HERE
Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Human Rights, Independent, National, Nongovernmental Organization
CCLA fights for the civil liberties, human rights, and democratic freedoms of all people across Canada. Founded in 1964, we are an independent, national, nongovernmental organization, working in the courts, before legislative committees, in the classrooms, and in the streets, protecting the dignity and rights of people in Canada.
Visit their website HERE
International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG)
National Coalition of Canadian Civil Society Organizations
The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) is a national coalition of Canadian civil society organizations that was established after the adoption of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001 in order to protect and promote human rights and civil liberties in the context of the so-called “war on terror”. The coalition brings together 45 NGOs, unions, professional associations, faith groups, environmental organizations, human rights and civil liberties advocates, as well as groups representing immigrant and refugee communities in Canada.
Our mandate is to defend the civil liberties and human rights set out in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, federal and provincial laws (such as the Canadian Bill of Rights, the Canadian Human Rights Act, provincial charters of human rights or privacy legislation), and international human rights instruments (such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment).
Visit their website HERE
Project Salam
In this web site we propose to examine the US post-9/11 terrorism prosecutions and determine whether in each case there was substantial evidence of criminality or simply evidence unfairly concocted and/or twisted to convict innocent Muslims.
Read Project Salam’s and National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms’ study ‘Inventing Terrorists’
Visit their website HERE
National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF)
Not-For Profit Organization
It was was founded and incorporated in 2010 as a coalition of Muslim, civil rights, and peace groups to oppose profiling, preemptive prosecution, and prisoner abuse.
NCPF and Project Salam co-published the study ‘Inventing Terrorists’ which looks into the preemptive prosecution of Muslims.
Visit their website HERE
American Civil Liberties Union
Nonprofit, Nonpartisan, Legal and Advocacy Organization
With more than 1.5 million members, nearly 300 staff attorneys, thousands of volunteer attorneys, and offices throughout the nation, the ACLU of today continues to fight government abuse and to vigorously defend individual freedoms including speech and religion, a woman’s right to choose, the right to due process, citizens’ rights to privacy and much more.
Visit their website HERE
New York Civil Liberties Union
Not-For-Profit, Nonpartisan Organization
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"What makes this story even more disturbing is that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) knowingly participated in this sting with the FBI. They unlawfully obtained Abdulrahman’s medical records that described his mental health vulnerabilities and provided them to the FBI to better manipulate this damaged youth.
This raises serious human rights concerns of discriminatory investigations, targeting vulnerable youths such as Abdulrahman, who had no previous history of violence or criminality, until drawn in by a U.S. government actively involved in developing the plot, persuading and pressuring the target to participate."