Invariably, inevitably, in every single case involving accused Islamic terrorists, they play the torture card early and often. The claims of the Canadian jihadis are especially ludicrous: CityNews: Lawyers Allege Terror Suspects Being Tortured In Jail. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

The terror case has taken another bizarre twist in a Brampton courthouse.
Lawyers for some of those accused emerged from the halls of justice on Monday morning claiming the Crown has asked for a publication ban on all events going on inside, so they can hide what’s really happening behind the scenes - including what they refer to as the “torture” of some of the suspects.

Lawyer David Kolinsky represents 20-year-old Mississauga resident Zakaria Amara.

“He is being held in a concrete room, approximately 11 feet by 6 feet. A concrete door. There is no window in the room. There is a small slit that is opened when meals are placed in his room. The light is on 24 hours a day and actually as early as 30 years ago, the federal court trial division of Canada had noted and had accepted expert testimony that this type of treatment is known to cause depression and suicide and has held that this type of treatment is, in fact, cruel and unusual punishment, contrary to the Bill of Rights.”

But he insists the treatment has gone farther than that - including beatings by a guard.

“My client when he was being searched by a guard, was pinned into the ground. He had the guard’s finger drilled into his cheek and the guard flicked him quite hard in the eye .

”He told me on Friday, his thumbs are still numb from plastic restraints placed on his wrists at the time and he has not received proper medical attention in that respect…

“My client advised that as he was being searched, he was touched on the ribs and he is ticklish, and he giggled a bit and the guard held him on the ground and drilled his fingers in the cheek and said, ‘is this funny?’”

Meanwhile, a Chicago judge saw through the torture claims of accused Hamas operative Muhammad Salah: US judge rules alleged Hamas operative not tortured by Israel . (Hat tp: LGF readers.)

In a 138-page ruling on a motion to suppress the statements, Judge Amy St. Eve determined that Salah’s allegations of sleep deprivation and other forms of physical and psychological torture were not credible.

She noted that Salah had not complained of ill-treatment during consular visits and did not show any bruising in news photographs taken shortly after he alleges that he was beaten about the head with a rifle.

She also noted that the tone and transcript of one interrogation which had been taped showed that Salah had a friendly and easy relationship with one of his interrogators who remembered that Salah took two spoons of sugar in his coffee.

“Salah’s affidavit is questionable given its inconsistencies with Salah’s prior statements and the other evidence presented at the suppression hearing,” she wrote.

St. Eve also ruled that two Israeli security forces interrogators were “forthright and truthful” when testifying that Salah was subjected to special treatment because he was an United States citizen and was not tortured.