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Top News // 1 decade ago

Canadian allegedly tortured by Syria

Canadian engineer Maher Arar was tortured while in custody in Syria three years ago and still suffers from the abuse, a report said Thursday.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Canada official: Torture can be tolerated

A Canadian official, during a hearing about a Canadian citizen deported to Syria, said the country will cooperate with other nations that practice torture.

Top News // 1 decade ago

U.S. rendition comes under court scrutiny

The U.S. government argued in court it has the right to detain foreigners even if they are in the country only to make connections to another country.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Canadian officer suspected Arar torture

The senior police officer in the 2002 investigation of Maher Arar says he suspected the seized Canadian computer engineer was being tortured in Syria.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Evidence mounts in U.S.-Syria rendition

Corroborating evidence has emerged in a lawsuit by a Canadian engineer who claims the United States shipped him to Syria to be tortured and questioned.

Top News // 1 decade ago

U.S. help said lacking in Canada inquiry

U.S. officials are refusing to help Canada's inquiry into the U.S. detention and deportation of a Canadian citizen to Syria, a senior Democrat said Thursday.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Ottawa worried about Canadians' freedoms

Canada's privacy commissioner is warning that the U.S.-led war on terror threatens the personal freedoms of Canadians.

Top News // 2 decades ago

Syrian-born Canadian sues top U.S. lawmen

A Syrian-born Canadian man has sued top U.S. law enforcement officials for his deportation to Syria where he says he was tortured, the BBC reported Friday.

Top News // 2 decades ago

Last day for Canada's prime minister

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien's staff began packing his Ottawa office Thursday to prepare for the arrival of the new premier, Paul Martin.

Top News // 2 decades ago

Man says CIA sent him to Syria for torture

A Canadian says the CIA detained him last year in New York as a suspected terrorist and then sent him to Syria, where he was tortured for 10 months.

Maher Arar (Arabic: ماهر عرار) (born 1970) is a telecommunications engineer with dual Syrian and Canadian citizenship who resides in Canada. He is famous for the outcry resulting from his deportation by the United States government to Syria. Arar has claimed he was tortured while in Syria.

On October 27, 2005, Professor Stephen Toope, a fact-finder appointed by the Arar Inquiry released a report saying that he believed Arar was tortured in Syria. He said that Arar had recovered well physically but was still suffering from psychological problems caused by his mistreatment.

His experience has been put forward as an example of the United States government policy of "extraordinary rendition".

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