Maher Arar filed a lawsuit before the US supreme court on Monday, appealing a lower court ruling that rejected his case because it involved national security information.<\/font><\/p>\n Arar was arrested by US authorities while transiting through New York’s JFK International Airport in 2002, on his way home to Canada from a family vacation in Tunis.<\/font><\/p>\n He was detained on information shared by Canadian police that suggested he had ties to "terrorist" groups\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n …US authorities held him in solitary confinement and interrogated him for nearly two weeks before deporting him to Syria. <\/font><\/p>\n He was imprisoned for a year in Damascus, the Syrian capital, during which time he says he was tortured before finally being released and returned to Canada. <\/font><\/p>\n A Canadian commission eventually cleared him of any connections to "terrorist" organisations [sic] and concluded that he had been tortured.<\/font><\/p>\n He was awarded $10.5m in compensation.<\/font><\/p>\n Arar’s suit before the Supreme Court questions whether "federal officials who conspired with Syrian officials to subject an individual in US custody to torture in Syria may be sued for damages".<\/font><\/p>\n David Cole, a lawyer for Arar, said: "The courts below ruled that federal officials cannot be sued for sending an innocent man to Syria to be tortured because the case would be too sensitive."…<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <Aljazeera<\/a>><\/p>\n I wish Mr. Arar every success here. What Bush and the GOP did to this innocent man is unconscionable. I think we can translate too sensitive<\/em> in the lower court\u2019s ruling can be translated as too damning to the Bush\/GOP regime<\/em>. Sadly, given the current makeup of SCOTUS, my hopes are not high.<\/p>\n Where is the coverage of this story in US media?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is shameful. A Canadian man who was deported by US officials to Syria, where he was imprisoned and allegedly tortured, has appealed a court ruling preventing him from suing the US. Maher Arar filed a lawsuit before the US supreme court on Monday, appealing a lower court ruling that rejected his case because it […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Arar\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202010\/J-M\/ArarAppealstoSCOTUS_17F5\/Arar.jpg\" "\\"Arar\\"")
<\/a> A Canadian man who was deported by US officials to Syria, where he was imprisoned and allegedly tortured, has appealed a court ruling preventing him from suing the US.<\/font><\/p>\n