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Canadian torture victim Ahmad El Maati demands apology

The actions of Canadian spies and apparent indifference to the fate of trucker Ahmad El Maati “likely contributed indirectly” to his torture, writes former Supreme Court of Canada justice Frank Iacobucci. The comments come in a once-secret supplement to Iacobucci’s 2008 report on the overseas imprisonment and torture of El Maati and two other Arab-Canadian

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Canadian House of Commons votes for apology to Muslims tortured abroad

A majority in the House of Commons says the Canadian government must apologize for the torture ordeals of three Muslim-Canadian men detained in Middle East jails and immediately overhaul the country’s national security review regime. The New Democratic Party brought a motion to have the full Commons endorse a June parliamentary committee report that urged

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US appeals court dismisses Canadian Maher Arar’s lawsuit

Maher Arar cannot sue the United States after being mistaken for a terrorist when he was changing planes in New York a year after the 2001 terrorist attacks, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The judges of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals voted 7-4 to uphold a decision by a lower court judge

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Maher Arar affected by new allegations of terrorist activities

Maher Arar, the Ottawa software engineer tortured in Syria after being deported there in 2002 by the United States on suspicion of terrorist links, responded to renewed claims that connect him to terrorist activity. Last week, an FBI agent testified before a Guantanamo Bay military hearing that terror suspect Omar Khadr said he had seen

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FBI claims Canadian held at Guantanamo Bay, Omar Khadr, testifies inaccurately

An FBI agent’s testimony that the Canadian Omar Khadr currently held at Guantanamo Bay, said he saw Maher Arar in Afghanistan appeared significantly weaker than it did previously – and, in the case of at least one key detail, at odds with reality. Robert Fuller, a prosecution witness in the Pentagon’s Guantanamo Bay case against

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