A Calgary-based legal defence group is coming to the aid of American human rights advocates whose ads have been stripped from Edmonton buses.
In a press release, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) announced a court action in support of the non-profit American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), whose ads encouraged Canadian Muslim women and girls to come to them for legal protection from so-called "honour killings."
"Is your family threatening you? Is there a fatwa on your head? We can help," the ads read, underneath photos of women murdered in high-profile honour killing cases.
One of those women is Aqsa Parvez, murdered in her own home by her brother and father in Mississauga in December 2007, over her refusal to wear the Muslim head scarf known as the hijab.
The ads then directed women to AFDI's website, FightForFreedom.us.
Following a number of complaints, Edmonton Transit pulled the ads from their buses.
"The City of Edmonton has silenced the voice of a non-profit group that wants to assist Canadian women and girls, protect them from honour killings and promote gender equality," says JCCF president John Carpay.
The Alberta Court of Queen's Bench will hear the JCCF's case in February 2015.
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