President Obama can demonstrate his commitment to human rights by addressing the case of Maher Arar, the well-known victim of the policy of extraordinary rendition.
Maher Arar, a dual Canadian-Syrian citizen, claimed he was tortured in Syria after US authorities arrested him in New York in 2002. ...
(November 26, 2009)
By Benjamin Weiser Ian Austen for The New York Times Maher Arar claimed that American officials sent him to Syria in 2002 to be tortured. ...
(November 02, 2009)
... officials to suspect detainees in Afghan prisons were being tortured, says Paul Cavalluzzo, the senior commission counsel at the Maher Arar inquiry. ...
(November 21, 2009)
... admit Jewish refugees before the Second World War and complicity in the handover of Maher Arar, reveals our hands aren't as clean as we like to think. ...
(November 26, 2009)
On Monday, a federal court of appeals dismissed Canadian citizen Maher Arar's case against US officials for their role in sending him to Syria to be tortured. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that victims of extraordinary .....
(November 03, 2009)
In an otherwise lackluster edition of the New York Times the editorial writers highlight the decision of the Federal Appeals Court in Manhattan to deny Maher Arar his day in court. Tortured in Syria because of the action of US Agents...
(November 11, 2009)
November 2, 2009, New York – Today, a federal Court of Appeals dismissed Canadian citizen Maher Arar's case against U.S. officials for their role in sending him to Syria to be tortured and interrogated for a year. Arar is represented...
(November 02, 2009)
by J.Hashmi In 2002, Maher Arar was detained without charge by the INS and denied the right to counsel. Even though he was a Canadian citizen, the United States government--based on Canadian intel--deported him to Syria to be torture...
(November 03, 2009)
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