Hope and Despair: My Struggle to Free my Husband Maher Arar now published

Ottawa citizen Monia Mazigh has published a book about her struggle to free her husband Maher Arar from a security prison in Syria in 2002. Arar disappeared while on a return flight to Canada in September 2002, was detained by U.S. authorities while in transit in New York and then falsely accused on being an…

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Probe into Maher Arar Torture Case Closed

Canadian federal police (the RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police), has closed its investigation into the source of the damaging leaks to the media about Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen deported to Syria by U.S. officials because of false allegations of terrorism. This statement marks the end of a five-year criminal investigation to examine how inaccurate…

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US Appeals Court to Rehear Maher Arar´s Torture Case

A US federal appeals court will reconsider its decision with regards to a Canadian engineer’s lawsuit over torture he endured following being falsely mistaken for an Islamic extremist. The decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan was, according to the International Herald Tribune, unusual because the circuit assembles for a case…

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    US Appeals Court to Rehear Maher Arar’s Torture Case

    A US federal appeals court will reconsider its decision with regards to a Canadian engineer’s lawsuit over torture he endured following being falsely mistaken for an Islamic extremist. The decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan was, according to the International Herald Tribune, unusual because the circuit assembles for a case…

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