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Maher Arar Sues U.S. Gov’t Over Detention

HeadlineJan 22, 2004

A Canadian citizen who was detained at a New York airport on a stopover in 2002 and then secretly deported to Syria is filing a lawsuit today against the U.S. government and Attorney General John Ashcroft. The man, Maher Arar, said he was deported to Syria even though the U.S. knew he would likely be tortured there. Arar was jailed in Syria for a year and suffered mental and physical abuse.

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