The fate of Dr. Hassan Diab is being determined by an absence of morality as in scapegoating, and by an absolutist moral stance that law is engraved in
The fate of Dr. Hassan Diab is being determined by scapegoating and by an absolutist moral belief that law is engraved in stone. This undeveloped form of morality reduces justice to rules in which the state’s role is limited to examining compliance with the law. In Dr. Diab’s case, appeals were rejected and ultimately blamed for preventing the efficient processing of his extradition.
Hassan Diab is a Canadian academic falsely accused of bombing a Paris synagogue in 1980. In April, a French court convicted and sentenced him to life in prison in a trial that can only be described as a mockery of justice.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) will register as an interested civil party in the French judicial investigation into French journalist Olivier Dubois’ abduction in Mali. RSF has taken this decision after learning from judicial sources that investigating judges have been appointed in France.