On September 26, 2002 at John F. Kennedy Airport. Thirty-four-year-old Canadian Maher Arar was changing planes when he was detained by U.S because he was on the United States Watch List of Terrorist Suspects. He was held in the United States for the next thirteen days for questioning. After the thirteen days he was sent to Syria where Arar spent the next year being tortured. He was released on October, 2003 after the Canadian government’s investigation on Maher Arar. The Syrian Ambassador, announced that there was no connection between Mahar Arar and terrorism.
The reason he was Sent to Syria was because of an American program known as “extraordinary rendition” The goal of extraordinary rendition is to extract suspected terrorist from one …show more content…
Maher Arar sued the US for mistreatment but the case was blocked in February 2006 by Judge David Trager. His ruling states that rendition cases like these raise inappropriate foreign policy questions for court review. This runs counter to a pair of rulings made in 2004 by the US supreme Court that shows that government actions are not exempted from court review. Canada’s response to this was giving Maher Arar millions in compensation and an apology for giving false information of being an extremist to the U.S
When asked about the Extraordinary Rendition program Arar said “They are outsourcing torture because they know it’s illegal ” he said. Followed by him saying “Why, if they have suspicions, don’t they question people within the boundary of the law”.
Canada has done a lot in the case of Maher Arar. From building an investigation as to why Maher Arar was sent to Syria to giving Arar compensation and apology for giving false information to the U.S. This cause for Maher Arar case was 9/11. With the 9/11 attacks U.S security and foreign policy changed to try and prevent something like 9/11 from happening again. The 9/11 attacks created programs like the Extraordinary Rendition program which led to the Maher Arar
The reason he was Sent to Syria was because of an American program known as “extraordinary rendition” The goal of extraordinary rendition is to extract suspected terrorist from one …show more content…
Maher Arar sued the US for mistreatment but the case was blocked in February 2006 by Judge David Trager. His ruling states that rendition cases like these raise inappropriate foreign policy questions for court review. This runs counter to a pair of rulings made in 2004 by the US supreme Court that shows that government actions are not exempted from court review. Canada’s response to this was giving Maher Arar millions in compensation and an apology for giving false information of being an extremist to the U.S
When asked about the Extraordinary Rendition program Arar said “They are outsourcing torture because they know it’s illegal ” he said. Followed by him saying “Why, if they have suspicions, don’t they question people within the boundary of the law”.
Canada has done a lot in the case of Maher Arar. From building an investigation as to why Maher Arar was sent to Syria to giving Arar compensation and apology for giving false information to the U.S. This cause for Maher Arar case was 9/11. With the 9/11 attacks U.S security and foreign policy changed to try and prevent something like 9/11 from happening again. The 9/11 attacks created programs like the Extraordinary Rendition program which led to the Maher Arar