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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told US President George W. Bush in a telephone conversation Friday that Canada was filing an official protest regarding the US treatment of Maher Arar , a Canadian citizen detained...

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli made a formal apology Thursday to Maher Arar , the Canadian citizen who on suspicion of being linked to Al Qaeda was deported from the US...

JURIST Guest Columnist Jules Lobel, a lawyer for Maher Arar and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, says that the US government and federal courts should follow the lead of a recently-completed Canadian inquiry by acknowledging...

A US Department of Justice (DOJ) spokesman retreated Wednesday from comments made earlier this week by US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the case of Canadian Maher Arar in...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Tuesday defended US conduct in handling the Maher Arar case, saying that while the US did in fact deport the Canadian citizen, the US was "not responsible for his removal...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Tuesday urged global action to combat three challenges facing humanity - human rights and the rule of law, security, and development - as the UN General Assembly opened its 61st session...

Report of the Events Relating to Maher Arar, Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar, September 18, 2006 [concluding that Canadian officials did not play a role in the US decision to detain...

Canada's Arar Commission , the official judicial inquiry into the circumstances under which Canadian Maher Arar was detained in the US in 2002 and removed to Syria where Arar says he was tortured, concluded...

Palestinian refugees in Iraq face danger from Shiite militias and harassment from the Iraqi government, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a new report released Sunday. The monitoring group found that the...

UN legal counsel Nicholas Michel said Friday at the end of a two-day visit to Lebanon that a special tribunal to try individuals connected with the February 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri...