talkleft.com - 25 days ago
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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against Maher Arar in his extraordinary rendition and torture lawsuit against the Government. Arar, a Canadian, was detained at JFK, flown to Syria where he was tortured for almost a year, before being returned to Canada. The Canadian government ...
nytimes.com - 26 days ago
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nytimes.com —
A federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled on
Monday that Maher Arar , a Canadian man who...
claimed that American officials sent him to Syria in 2002 to be tortured, cannot sue for damages because Congress has not authorized such suits. The case has ...
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Federal Appeals Court Rejects Rendition Suit by Maher Arar
ccrjustice.org - 27 days ago
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ccrjustice.org —
November 2, 2009, New York – Today, a
federal Court of Appeals dismissed Canadian citizen Maher Arar’s...
case against U.S. officials for their role in sending him to Syria to be tortured and interrogated for a year. Arar is represented by the Center ...
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No Justice for Canadian Rendition Victim Maher Arar
opiniojuris.org - 27 days ago
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... ) While the 23rd C.D. was, at least, an opportunity to see Republicans behave the way Democrats usually do (with the results that Democrats usually get for that behavior), the broader picture, of national-standardbearer Barack Obama behaving like just another DLC corporate whore simply aligning himself with the money... is disheartening. Throw in his stand on the Constitution and the continued glorification/expansion of the national security state... (one where torture of admittedly innocent men is now officially court sanctioned ) and it's more than a little disheartening. ...
Arar Decision Cripples Torture Rendition Suits
Firedoglake —
... The core of the decision appears in this quote from the majority opinion (see full opinion at PDF link; the impressive dissent in the case begins on page 57 — H/T Jeralyn at TalkLeft). ...
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truthdig.com 25 days ago — By Amy Goodman “Extraordinary rendition” is White House-speak for kidnapping. Just ask Maher Arar. He’s a Canadian citizen who was “rendered” by the U.S. to Syria, where he was tortured for almost a year.
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theglobeandmail.com 27 days ago — Victims of extraordinary rendition have no recourse to sue Washington for torture suffered overseas, appellate court rules
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