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Maher Arar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arar was then held in solitary confinement in a Syrian prison and regularly tortured until his eventual release and return to Canada in October 2003. Arar was imprisoned in Syria for over a year, during which time he was tortured and forced to sign a false confession which purported that he had trained in Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. Arar's wife, Monia Mazigh, ran unsuccessfully as the NDP candidate in the Ottawa South riding in the 2004 federal election. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maher_Arar   (1799 words)

CCR Arar, who was arrested by U.S. officials while in transit at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, was intensively interrogated and then deported to Syria, where he endured 10 months of torture at the hands of Syrian intelligence officials. Arar’s requests for a lawyer were dismissed on the basis that he was not an American citizen, therefore he did not have the right to receive counsel. Arar was transferred to a prison, where he was beaten for several hours and forced to falsely confess that he had attended a training camp in Afghanistan, fighting against the United States. www.ccr-ny.org /v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=NydViALvVC&Content=300   (700 words)

Muslim American Society Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen deported by U.S. authorities to Syria where he was tortured, is filing a lawsuit against the U.S., Syria and Jordan. According to CBS, Arar was not allowed to make a phone call, so when his wife, Monia, did not hear from him, she called the Canadian embassy. Arar told CBS that physical torture took place during the first two weeks, but says that he went through psychological and mental torture as well: “They would take me back to a room, they call it the waiting room. www.masnet.org /news.asp?id=855   (591 words)

Muslim American Society Arar said it's notable that none of the three was ever charged with anything and have all been released. Arar said the torture stopped after the first two weeks, but he was confined to his tiny, dank cell for months and lost about 40 pounds. Arar said he was warned not to breathe a word to them about how he was being treated or things would worsen considerably. www.masnet.org /news.asp?id=1465   (1323 words)

The Maher Arar case: Washington's practice of torture by proxy Arar was then transported to Washington, where he was placed in the hands of a “special removal unit” and flown in a small jet to Amman, Jordan. Arar was repeatedly assaulted with an electric cable, threatened with even more severe forms of torture and forced to endure the screams of fellow prisoners. That Arar was being held and tortured by the Syrians on behalf of Washington is underscored by the timing of his release. www.wsws.org /articles/2003/nov2003/arar-n18.shtml   (1229 words)

Maher Arar Arar was born in Syria and at the age of 17, came to Canada with his family. Arar has been invited to testify on Thursday, March 23 at public hearings convened by the European Parliament's Temporary Committee on the Transportation and Illegal Detention of Prisoners. Arar, but he says that the Committee's work is important and he will take the risk. www.maherarar.ca   (1285 words)

injusticebusters 2002 > > Maher Arar: Canadian deported from US to Syria Arar has spoken to the federal government about his alleged torture, but allegations that he was tortured have swirled since his release earlier this month. Arar is safely home, Ottawa can explain what role the RCMP played in his original detention, what information Canadian agencies passed along to the Americans and whether that was the reason the Ottawa man was arrested in New York. Arar told her he was interrogated for several hours by U.S. immigration officials and FBI investigators, and refused to sign an agreement to be deported to Syria. www.injusticebusters.com /2003/Arar_Maher.htm   (8537 words)

TheStar.com - Arar's Syrian hell: 'I lived in a grave'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08) Arar, freed by Syria in October after almost a year in jail, told a news conference yesterday of the physical and psychological torture he endured at the hands of his interrogators and the horrific conditions he lived in. Arar was detained and questioned at New York's JFK Airport on Sept. 26, 2002 before eventually being deported to Syria by U.S officials, who said he belonged to the Al Qaeda terrorist network. Arar refused; he had left when he was 17 without doing his military service, a relative had been imprisoned, he was a Sunni Muslim, and he was afraid he would be tortured. www.thestar.com /NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1067987409905&call_pageid=970599119419   (1202 words)

Canada can't ensure Arar's safety abroad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08) Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian, was detained by U.S immigration officials in September 2002 before boarding a flight from Zurich to New York. Arar will be accompanied by his lawyers Marlys Edwardh and Lorne Waldman, who have tried to make arrangements for his safety. Arar has had a rocky relationship with his own government, Belgium has been accommodating in advance of his trip. www.canada.com /montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=608dedbc-ac72-4ed9-b6fc-37efd16b5c30&k=33321   (503 words)

Arar-Lawsuit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08) Arar, who was not present at the proceeding, holds dual Syrian-Canadian citizenship and was travelling on a Canadian passport when he was detained in New York. Arar, who is seeking undisclosed damages, wants a court to declare the U.S. government responsible for his detention "so that this cannot happen again to anyone else," said Barbara Olshanky, an attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights. She said Arar, who denies al-Qaida affiliations, secured a lawyer through a call to his mother-in-law but did not take legal steps to challenge his deportation during the 12 days he was detained in New York or while he was imprisoned in Syria. www.recorder.ca /cp/National/050810/n081011A.html   (511 words)

Peace, order and good government, eh?: Implausible deniability In his testimony on Monday at the Arar inquiry Bill Graham, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs during the entire period of Maher Arar's imprisonment, indicated that he had no reason to believe that Arar was being tortured by the... In his testimony on Monday at the Arar inquiry Bill Graham, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs during the entire period of Maher Arar's imprisonment, indicated that he had no reason to believe that Arar was being tortured by the Syrians. It was reported nearly a year ago that American officials asked the RCMP if Arar would be charged on his return to Canada and that it was the RCMP who told the Americans that no, they didn't have grounds to lay charges. www.pogge.ca /archives/000812.shtml   (1138 words)

CBS News | His Year In Hell | January 22, 2004 09:53:08 Arar says the physical torture took place during the first two weeks, but he says he also went through psychological and mental torture: “They would take me back to a room, they call it the waiting room. Arar says he signed a confession because he was “ready to do anything to stop the torture.” But he claims that he had never been to Afghanistan, or trained at a terrorist camp. Arar’s case is unusual because he was sent directly from U.S. soil to Syria. www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/01/21/48hours/main594974.shtml   (1735 words)

Canadian Sent to Syrian Prison Disputes US Claims Against Torture Arar was picked up by U.S. authorities at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, accused of being a terrorist and then shipped on Justice Department orders to Syria under a highly secret policy known as rendition. Arar and his lawyers believe that Canada, in trying to prove to the United States that it was tough on terrorism, overstepped and provided Americans with a dossier that contained only the thinnest of evidence. Arar says he had lunch with Amalki once and, when he was new to Ottawa, co-signed a rental agreement with him. www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0729-01.htm   (1636 words)

Sympatico / MSN : News : CTV.ca: 'I am a victim of extraordinary rendition': Arar Arar told the EU committee that FBI agents confiscated his Canadian passport, chained his wrists and ankles, and asked him if he would voluntarily return to Syria. Without any charges laid, Arar was kept in a Syrian jail almost a year where he says he was tortured and beaten by officials. In his first trip since being freed from the Syrian prison in 2003, Arar said that he was overcoming his fear of flying because of the importance of the committee. sympaticomsn.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060323/arar_   (652 words)

Maher Arar - 9/11Review On Sept. 26, 2002, Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen born in Syria, traveling on a Canadian passport departed Tunis where he was vacationing with his family, on a flight to Montreal via Zurich and New York. Arar continues to ask for a lawyer and phone call, and his requests are denied. Arar is repeatedly tortured in Syria, where he has been confined in a 3 foot by 6 foot cell with no light, that Arar referred to as "the grave". www.911review.org /Wiki/Arar,Maher.shtml   (1548 words)

Transparent Grid » Blog Archive » Arar Case Dismissed Arar was detained by immigration authorities as he was returning to Montreal from a family vacation in Tunisia through JFK. Arar was in Syrian custody for months where he alleges he was tortured by authorities who asked him the exact same questions that American officials had asked him in New York. Arar alleges that his interrogation in Syria was coordinated and planned by U.S. officials, who sent the Syrians a dossier containing specific questions. www.transparentgrid.com /wordpress/index.php/archives/2006/02/22/1520   (686 words)

washingtonpost.com: Top Justice Aide Approved Sending Suspect to Syria Arar, who holds dual Canadian and Syrian citizenship, was en route to Canada, where he lives, from a trip to Tunisia when he was detained on Sept. 26, 2002 by immigration officials at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Arar, who was questioned at the airport because his name appeared on a government watch list, was kept in a New York jail for more than 10 days and then sent to Syria via Jordan. Arar, who was released last month after an aggressive campaign by Canadian officials to free him, is back in Canada. www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A59678-2003Nov18?language=printer   (553 words)

CTV.ca | Arar inquiry asks for Syrian, U.S. co-operation Arar, 34, had stopped in the United States in September 2002 on his way back from a family holiday in Tunisia. Following his detention by U.S. officials, Arar was deported by the U.S. first to Jordan and then Syria, the country where he was born, where he was held for 10 months and tortured. Arar has since maintained he has had no involvement with any terrorist group or activity. www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1087512169095_45?hub=Canada   (520 words)

TheStar.com - U.S. urged Canada to hold Arar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08) Arar was flying from Tunisia, where he had spent a two-month holiday with his wife, children and her family, to Ottawa on Sept. 26, 2002, by way of Zurich and New York. Arar, who left Syria in 1988 when he was 17, had not visited his birth country since leaving. Arar was then transported to Jordan where he was held before being deported to Syria, where he was kept in prison for the past year. www.thestar.com /NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1065651010305&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154   (1036 words)

Fact-finder confirms that Arar was tortured - Wikinews Arar holds dual citizenship of Canada and Syria and was travelling on his Canadian passport. Arar to Syria, a country with a longstanding history of torture and abuse of its prisoners. CBC News "Arar was tortured, inquiry fact-finder concludes". en.wikinews.org /wiki/Fact-finder_confirms_that_Arar_was_tortured   (439 words)

CBC News Indepth: Maher Arar: Timeline At the inquiry, Arar's lawyers argue that Ottawa should be forced to release all documents related to the case, because many of the document have been leaked to the media. Arar tells of his year spent in a Syrian jail and says he was mentally and physically tortured and forced to confess that he spent time in Afghanistan. Arar is detained by U.S. Immigration and Naturalization officials at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport while returning alone to Montreal from a family vacation in Tunisia. www.cbc.ca /news/background/arar   (2750 words)

Obsidian Wings: Maher Arar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08) The Syrians locked Arar in an underground cell the size of a grave: 3 feet wide, 6 feet long, 7 feet high. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police reported that the lease on Arar's apartment had been witnessed by a Syrian- born Canadian who was believed to know an Egyptian Canadian whose brother was allegedly mentioned in an al Qaeda document. This seems to be reflected, when talking about legal and civil rights, by adopting a legalistic stance on matters such as the Arar case, and completely ignoring the moral ideas behind the framing of the law. obsidianwings.blogs.com /obsidian_wings/2004/01/maher_arar.html   (1614 words)

Arar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arar is also the ancient name of the Saône river in France. Arar (Arabic: عرعر, BGN spelling: `Ar`ar) is the capital of Al Hudud ash Shamaliyah (The Northern Border) province in Saudi Arabia. It has a population of 145,237 (2004 census). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arar   (84 words)

The New Yorker: Fact Arar, a thirty-four-year-old graduate of McGill University whose family emigrated to Canada when he was a teen-ager, was arrested on September 26, 2002, at John F. Kennedy Airport. Arar, who was not formally charged, was placed in handcuffs and leg irons by plainclothes officials and transferred to an executive jet. Arar, it turned out, had been sent to Syria on orders from the U.S. government, under a secretive program known as “extraordinary rendition.” This program had been devised as a means of extraditing terrorism suspects from one foreign state to another for interrogation and prosecution. www.newyorker.com /fact/content/?050214fa_fact6   (7852 words)

Maher Arar - Overview Arar was taken into custody by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) at Kennedy Airport on his way home to Canada after visiting his wife’s family in Tunisia. Arar was handed over to Syrian authorities after being held briefly in Jordan for interrogation. Arar was suddenly released to the Canadian Consulate in Damascus by Syrian authorities. www.amnesty.ca /human_rights_issues/maher_arar_overview.php   (1567 words)

Maher Arar at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08) Maher Arar (born 1970) is a Canadian and Syrian citizen born in Syria, who moved to Canada at age 17 in 1988 to avoid mandatory military service requirements. Immigration officials claimed Arar knew a man in Ottawa whom they suspected of having links to the al-Qaeda terror organization, and suspected Arar of being an al-Qaeda member himself. On March 10, 2004, Arar's wife Monia Mazigh announced her intentions to seek the NDP nomination in Ottawa South in the next federal election. www.wiki.tatet.com /Maher_Arar.html   (687 words)

CBC News: Official says he suspected Arar was being mistreated by Syrians On Thursday, Gar Pardy testified before the Arar inquiry that consular reports showed Arar was resigned and submissive when visited by diplomats and that he was only allowed to speak to officials in the presence of jail guards. Arar was detained by U.S. authorities when he landed in New York in September 2002. Arar claims he was tortured while being held in Syria in order to have him admit to being involved with terrorists. www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2005/05/26/arar050526.html   (1047 words)

Mounties raid journalist in search for Arar leaks Arar, who today plans to file a civil rights lawsuit against the U.S. government for deporting him to Syria, said he made the false confession under torture. Arar, an immigrant from Syria who was travelling on his Canadian passport when arrested in New York in September, 2002, denies any terrorist links and wants a public inquiry so he can try to clear his name. Arar and other Canadians in the atmosphere after the al-Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. foi.missouri.edu /jouratrisk/mountiesraid.html   (973 words)

Peace, order and good government, eh?: We interrupt your regularly scheduled scandal... That was six days before Arar was put on the plane that flew him to Jordan where he was then shipped on to Syria. Just days after Arar arrived at a Syrian military prison, Pillarella's memos back to Ottawa say his Syrian contact has told him that Arar was being interrogated and had confessed to links with terrorist organizations, alluding to groups based in Pakistan. The RCMP have already admitted that Arar was never a prime suspect, only a "peripheral figure or potential witness." I wonder if that was communicated to Pillarella. www.pogge.ca /archives/000785.shtml   (1051 words)

Maher Arar Testifies At EU Commission Hearing - TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08) Arar told the EU committee that FBI agents took his passport, put him in chains on both his wrists and ankles and asked him to voluntarily to go to Syria. Arar said he could see on the airport's in-flight screen showing the trajectory of the flight that it landed in Rome. Arar said, he was detained in a small cell with no light and was beaten and tortured. talkleft.com /new_archives/014370.html   (3129 words)

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