The Institute for Policy Studies in D.C. gives New York's Center for Constitutional Rights and its client, Maher Arar, international human rights awards.
The Military Commissions Act, signed into law by Congress, allows the U.S. to retain its authority on deciding what forms of interrogation are not war crimes under the War Crimes Act and the Geneva...
At a news conferenci in Ottawa, falsely accused terror suspect Maher Arar regards the apology and compensation package rendered from the Canadian government as an acknowledgement of his innocence.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologizes to Arar and offers a $10.5M compensation package for the extreme psychological and emotional torture he sustained for 10 months in a Syrian prison.
