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  • Rendition, Torture and Accountability

    2007-11-24

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    Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian, was stopped at Kennedy Airport in 2002 while returning from a family vacation. After being held in solitary confinement in a Brooklyn detention center and interrogated without proper access to a lawyer, he was spirited off to Syria. He was tortured there for months before officials decided that their suspicions that he was a member of Al Qaeda were mistaken and let him go.

    At a court hearing this month, a Justice Department lawyer argued against reinstating Mr. Arar’s lawsuit. The government contends that he should have appealed his order of removal to Syria, and claims that the Constitution does not apply to noncitizens who suffer injury abroad. This is a particularly nervy tack, given the ample precedent to the contrary and the fact that the administration first denied Mr. Arar’s access to a lawyer and then sent him to the country where he was tortured.

    Canada’s response to Mr. Arar’s nightmare has been very different. After conducting an extensive investigation, the government offered him millions of dollars in compensation and an apology for having told United States agents that Mr. Arar was suspected, wrongly, of being an extremist. Pressed at a recent Congressional hearing, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice conceded that the United States had mishandled the case but refused to apologize.


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