• Maher Arar (Arabic: ماهر عرار) (born 1970) is a telecommunications engineer with dual Syrian and Canadian citizenship who has resided in Canada since 1987...
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  • the arrest and extraordinary rendition of an innocent Canadian citizen Maher Arar, which occurred in September 2002 at John F. Kennedy International Airport...
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    to Maher Arar: Analysis and Recommendations" (PDF). (1.17 MB), Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar "Renditions:...
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    departure from the RCMP was linked to the force's involvement in the Maher Arar affair. Zaccardelli was later impugned during inquiries into irregularities...
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    Canadian author and academic best known for her efforts to free her husband Maher Arar from a Syrian prison. A resident of Ottawa, Ontario, she was the New Democratic...
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  • Turkish singer Maher Arar (born 1970), Canadian-Syrian engineer, deported from the US Arar v. Ashcroft, a legal case brought by Maher Arar Mustafa Wahbi...
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  • national security investigations at RCMP headquarters in 2003 during the "Maher Arar Affair". He is the official singled out: 107, 212–13, 217, 218, 231, 263...
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  • had been frozen out of intelligence gathering and skills had atrophied. Maher Arar was arrested, rendered to Syria and tortured as the result of unfounded...
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  • Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar was a public inquiry investigating the rendition and torture of Maher Arar released on September 18, 2006....
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    Montreal, Maher Arar was detained by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, acting upon information supplied by the RCMP. Arar was sent...
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  • "Maa-her." Notable people with the name include: Maher al-Agal, a Syrian ISIS commander Maher Arar, Syrian-Canadian telecommunications engineer whose...
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  • Mahir (section Maher)
    spelled Maher or "Mihir-A", Arabic: ماهر) is an Arabic given name meaning "skilled" or "expert". Notable people with the name include: Maher Arar, Canadian...
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  • deportation victim Arar On January 26, 2007, the government announced a compensation worth $11.5 million to Syrian-Canadian Maher Arar due to an error from...
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  • posed by terrorist activity, and this has led to the memorable cases of Maher Arar and Omar Khadr. The institutional focus of CSIS returned to state actors...
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  • case where Maher Arar, a wrongfully-accused and tortured victim, sought to sue Attorney General John Ashcroft for his role in deporting Arar to Syria to...
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    into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar. In the aftermath of the Arar affair, the commission of inquiry recommended that the...
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    issues, including the introduction of anti-terror laws in Canada, the Maher Arar fiasco, the no-fly list (Passenger Protect), the religious law arbitration...
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  • most known for his testimony into the deportation and imprisonment of Maher Arar, which occurred during his tenure as Canadian ambassador to Syria. Pillarella...
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  • in the wrongful rendition and torture of Canadian citizens, including Maher Arar, who was tortured for ten months before being found innocent of the officers'...
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    studying in Karachi, Pakistan. In November 2003, a Canadian-Syrian national, Maher Arar, publicly alleged that he had been tortured in a Syrian prison after being...
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    several minutes to identify Maher Arar from one of the photographs. The report also stated that Khadr thought he saw Arar at a Kabul, Afghanistan safe...
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  • Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar, led by Justice Dennis O’Connor found that Arar was innocent, that the Royal Canadian Mounted...
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    Arar v. Ashcroft, 585 F.3d 559 (2d Cir. 2009), was a lawsuit brought by Maher Arar against the United States and various U.S. officials pursuant to the...
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  • Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar led by Justice Dennis O'Connor released its report. The Committee was...
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    over comments he made on the case of Maher Arar, Cellucci gave an interview in which explained his position on the Arar case. While he was Ambassador, Cellucci...
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  • were two blankets, two dishes and two bottles. Nothing else. No light. — Maher Arar, imprisoned at Palestine Branch from September 2002 to October 2003 The...
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  • Robert-Baldwin in the National Assembly of Quebec. (of Syrian descent) Maher Arar - human rights activist; deportation and tortured victim in Syrian jail...
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  • Rendition (film) Similar cases: Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr Laid Saidi Maher Arar Mohammed Haydar Zammar Mamdouh Habib "Extraordinary Rendition – Khaled...
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    Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, about the Maher Arar affair and the extraordinary rendition of Arar to Syria. Leahy endorsed Barack Obama, the Democratic...
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  • Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar. (2006). Report of the Events Relating to Maher Arar: Analysis and Recommendations (PDF). Ottawa...
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