Tortured man compensated
“Maher Arar, the Canadian software engineer who was detained by American officials in 2002 and deported to Syria, where he was jailed and regularly tortured, will receive 11.5 million Canadian dollars ($9.75 million) in compensation from the Canadian government … he had been held for 10 months in a 3-by-6-foot cell and beaten repeatedly, often with a frayed electrical cable.”
While the Canadian government is now recognising his innocence, it does nothing to excuse the man’s torture in Syria, made possible with the complicity of both the US and Canada. The New York Times article is here.
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Monday, January 29th, 2007 @ 4:50 am
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February 4th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
[...] Tortured man compensated « The Relentless Stream of Consciousness “While the Canadian government is now recognising his innocence, it does nothing to excuse the man’s torture in Syria, made possible with the complicity of both the US and Canada.” (tags: torture politics evil news) [...]
August 7th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
This is a very sad story
….aleast its a sorta happy ending, with that much canadian money, he can live off the interest for the rest of his life 
August 8th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Thanks for your comment. Yeah, at least he got compensation but it can never give him back the time he lost in jail or get rid of the emotional scars of his torture…