JURIST Guest Columnist Kent Roach of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law says that the Supreme Court of Canada's recent refusal to review a lower court's stay of extradition proceedings represents an important victory for the rule of law...
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The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in Arar v. Ashcroft , a case concerning the US government's extraordinary rendition policy. Canadian citizen Maher...
The UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) on Friday urged Syria, Yemen, and Jordan to conduct thorough investigations into allegations of torture by law enforcement officials. Concluding its forty-fourth session, the group of...
Denying Arar opportunity for redress undermines US justice system
Andrea Prasow : "On February 1, 2010, Maher Arar asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that he cannot sue federal officials for damages even though they allegedly conspired with Syrian...
Canadian citizen Maher Arar on Monday asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that he cannot sue the US government for damages based on his...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Monday that Canadian citizen Maher Arar cannot sue the US government for damages based on his detention in the US...
Arar v. Ashcroft, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, November 2, 2009 [holding that Canadian citizen Maher Arar cannot sue the US government for damages based on his detention in the US and his detention, interrogation,...
UN rapporteur warns rights council on US 'war on terror' policies
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Martin Scheinin on Tuesday cited the case of Canadian citizen and former US detainee Maher Arar in presenting a report [text,...
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that instead of leaving the door open for the CIA to continue to engage in the rendition of terrorism suspects to other countries so long as the process...
Former US detainee and Canadian citizen Maher Arar said Thursday that he was shocked and saddened to learn that US government officials had testified at the US military commission trial of fellow...
