Rendered Meaningless: The Rule of Law in the US 'War on Terror'
JURIST Guest Columnist Margaret Satterthwaite of New York University School of Law says that US actions in the war on terror - especially the practice of extraordinary rendition - make a mockery of formal US insistence on the rule of...
JURIST Guest Columnist Richard Seamon of the University of Idaho School of Law says that in light of ever-increasing evidence of detainee abuse by US personnel or parties acting with the approval or complicity of the United States, Congress should...
Arar v. Ashcroft, United States District Court, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, February 16, 2006 [dismissing case citing "the national security and foreign policy considerations at stake" and held that Maher Arar, as a...
Federal judge dismisses Canadian extraordinary rendition suit
US District Judge David G. Trager has granted the US Justice Department's request for dismissal of a civil rights lawsuit filed by Maher Arar , in what is believed to be the...
UN rights body calls on Canada to investigate reports of complicity in torture
The UN Human Rights Committee urged in a report Wednesday that Canada open an investigation into allegations that its law enforcement agencies cooperated in the torture of several Canadian citizens detained in Middle Eastern...
Canadian opposition calls for expanded probe on rendition cases
Leaders of Canada's three opposition political parties said Thursday that the government should launch an expanded probe into situations where Canadian citizens have been investigated by federal authorities but tortured abroad, echoing a similar request made by human rights...
Rights groups press Canadian government for new probe on rendition cases
Human rights groups are pressuring the Canadian government to open a new investigation into the role the government played in allegedly allowing a number of Muslim Canadians to be imprisoned and tortured in Syria. Testimony ended Thursday in an...
Justice Department seeks dismissal of torture rendition suit on security grounds
Citing national security concerns, the US Justice Department has asked a federal district court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a Canadian man who claims he was deported to Syria and tortured. Maher Arar , born in Syria...
Australian Gitmo detainee says US transfered him to Egypt for torture
Military lawyers for an Australian detainee held at Guantanamo Bay Cuba have said in court papers that their client, originally detained by the US in Pakistan in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, was later tranfered to...
