Torture Victim Deported on Faulty Intelligence

Canadian security forces wrongly informed the US that Maher Arar, who was deported to Syria, imprisoned and tortured, was an Islamic extremist suspected of links to al-Qaida, a Canadian inquiry has found.
Canadian security forces wrongly informed the US that Maher Arar, who was deported to Syria, imprisoned and tortured, was an Islamic extremist suspected of links to al-Qaida, a Canadian inquiry has found.

Arar, a computer engineer, was travelling on a Canadian passport when he was detained in New York in September 2002, on his way home to Canada from a holiday in Tunisia.

Justice O'Connor, who headed the inquiry, criticised the US and said no information should ever be provided to a foreign country where there was a risk that it would lead to torture.


© Guardian News & Media 2008
Published: 9/19/2006
 
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