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A United States district court judge has dismissed the first legal test of the Bush administration's practice of "extraordinary rendition"- shipping a terrorism suspect to a country where interrogation can be accompanied by torture. The case is worth watching as it works its way through an appeal process that could reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Lawyers for the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights brought the case on behalf of Maher Arar, a Syrian born Canadian wireless technology consultant. U.S. immigration officials detained him on Sept. 26, 2002, at New York's JFK Airport, when he stopped between planes on his return from a vacation visit to Tunisia. They accused him of membership in al-Qaida.
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... DAVID COLE , Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, N.Y. . ...
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[Maher Arar] is still considered a terrorist by the U.S. but no court has ever heard his case on the merits. Arar and his family remain on a U.S. watch list, and the United States has never officially apologized or admitted it made a mistake. Officials have said only that the Arar case was not handled well. Today's decision eliminates my last bit of hope in the judicial system of the United States," Arar said in a statement Monday. "When it comes to 'national security' matters the judicial system has willingly abandoned its sacred role of ensuring that no one is above the law. My case and other cases brought by human beings who were tortured have been thrown out by U. S. courts based on dubious government claims. Unless the American people stand up for justice they will soon see their ...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which has represe...
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Introduction - II. Protection from torture as an absolute and non-derogable right - III. Shift under bush: "the war on terror" undermining the prohibition of torture - IV. The Obama administration and compliance with U.S. obligations under cat - A. The Obama Administration-A Paradigm Shift? - B. Dealing With the Past: Providing Justice For Torture Practices Under the Bush Administration - 1. Duty to Investigate - a) Investigation of the Department of Defense - b) Investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency - c) Investigation of the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel Lawyers - 2. Duty to Prosecute - a) Prosecution of the Department of Justice - b) Prosecution of the Central Intelligence Agency - c) Prosecution of the Department of Defense - C. Right to a Remedy and R...
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... INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND OVERSIGHT AND HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE... DIRECTOR, THE CENTER ON THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE, S... rights or risk squandering the constitutional values upon which the nation was founded. And I th...
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Fahim discusses the Canadian inquiry that may reveal CIA secrets on outsourcing torture. The inquiry will investigate why Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen who was flying home to Montreal in 2002, was detained by the US authorities at JFK airport, and then escorted through Jordan to Syria, where he said he was tortured and kept in grave-like cell for 10 months.
..., adding that the Counterterrorist Center at the CIA had "racked up many successes, includin...The Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents Arar in the U.S., filed a...
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... Gallagher, on the brief), Center for Constitutional RRights, New York, NY; Joshu...
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[...] he has spent much of his adult life as a political scientist there, as well as in Egypt, Yemen, and now Damascus, where he is director of the French Near East Institute. [...] Finkelstein emphasized that Gandhi was not anti-British, but anti-injustice and anti-humbug.
...., is currently chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh. Prince...9 on behalf of the Center for Constitutional Rights to represent Maher Arar in the rehearing of...
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I thought I was inured to learning about further evidence of this administration's disregard for our system of justice as it abuses international law and our statutes in the CIA's kidnapping of terrorism suspects to be sent to other nations. But an Aug. 9 statement in Brooklyn federal court by Mary Mason of the Justice Department's Constitutional Torts Section astonished me by its breadth of disregard for what we prize as our rule of law. The case was the first civil lawsuit to challenge the CIA's "extraordinary renditions," sending terrorist suspects to countries known for torturing their prisoners. Maher Arar, a naturalized Canadian citizen, is suing for damages in Maher Arar v. John Ashcroft, Acting Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, et al. He was seized by American agents and s...
...Arar's attorney on behalf of the Center for Constitutional rights) this is what Mrs. Mason...
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In a startling, ominous decision--ignored by most of the press around the country--Federal District Judge David Trager, in the Eastern District of New York, has dismissed a lawsuit by a Canadian citizen, Maher Arar, who, during a stopover at Kennedy Airport on the way home to Canada after vacation, was kidnapped by CIA agents. He was flown to Syria and became one of the best-known victim of the CIA's extraordinary renditions--the sending of suspected terrorists to countries known for torturing their prisoners. Hentoff comments on the dismissal of Arar's suit for the atrocities he endured in Syria.
...Representing Arar for the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, David Cole predicts, an...
