This article originally appeared on the Huffington Post on April 30, 2010. While people protest the terrible Arizona state law that uses local law enforcement to target immigrants, the federal...
Updated: June 23, 2010
By Sunita Patel, Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and Bill Quigley, Associate Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights Nations and organizations around the globe...
Updated: December 19, 2011
September 2006Government commission in Canada ruled that Maher Arar is not a terrorist/White House seeking to revoke right of habeas corpus to non-citizens held in US custody outside of the US.
February 2006Maher Arar is seeking acknowledgement from the U.S. government that his torture was wrong.
February 2006U.S. district judge David Trager dismissed Maher Arar's lawsuit against the U.S. government.
October 2006The Institute for Policy Studies in D.C. gives New York's Center for Constitutional Rights and its client, Maher Arar, international human rights awards.
January 2007At 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.
January 2007Until the PM's official apology rolled out of the fax machine, Arar's legal team couldn't be sure of success in quest for justice.
January 2007Canadian 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.
August 2007Newly released sections of a Canadian inquiry report reveal that neither the Syrian government nor the FBI believed Arar was a threat.
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