Review Says Government Broke No Rules in Hassan Diab Extradition Case

Review Says Government Broke No Rules in Hassan Diab Extradition Case
Hassan Diab arrives for a press conference on the French Court of Appeal's decision in his case on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Oct. 26, 2018. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press
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OTTAWA—An external review of the extradition of Ottawa academic Hassan Diab has concluded that federal lawyers on the case did their jobs ethically and within the law.

Murray Segal, a former deputy attorney general in Ontario, wrote that Canada’s extradition law is largely misunderstood and the system could work better—but that nobody who worked on Diab’s extradition broke the rules.