{"id":60683,"date":"2023-12-22T03:15:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T18:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/21\/canada-intelligence-program-danger-report-china-detention"},"modified":"2023-12-22T03:15:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T18:15:06","slug":"canada-intelligence-operation-put-diplomats-in-legal-grey-zone-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60683","title":{"rendered":"Canada intelligence operation put diplomats in legal \u2018grey zone\u2019 \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Program \u2013 under scrutiny after imprisonment of Canadians in China \u2013 said to lack safeguards to protect officers overseas<\/p>\n<p>A controversial intelligence-gathering program run by Canada\u2019s foreign affairs ministry operates in a \u201cdistinctly grey zone\u201d, puts its officers at risk and breaches global diplomatic conventions, says a damning watchdog report.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s global security reporting program (GSRP), a critical part of the foreign ministry\u2019s security and intelligence footprint overseas, places officers in countries with \u201cpoor human rights records\u201d including Ethiopia, India, Egypt, Turkey, Israel and China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/21\/canada-intelligence-program-danger-report-china-detention\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Program \u2013 under scrutiny after imprisonment of Canadians in China \u2013 said to lack safeguards to protect officers overseasA controversial intelligence-gathering program run by Canada\u2019s foreign affairs ministry operates in a \u201cdistinctly grey zone\u201d, puts i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":483,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,41,244,50,667,319,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-espionage","category-foreign-policy","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60684,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60683\/revisions\/60684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}