CIA-RENDITION FLIGHTS: CHARGE DISMISSED BY US COURTS, BUT CANADIAN POLICE CONDUCT INVESTIGATION

ECCHR SUPPORTED CASE BEFORE AMERICAN SUPREME COURT

US-American Courts have rejected the damages claim filed by Canadian citizen Maher Arar, who was rendered by the CIA to Syria, where he was tortured for several months. The US-Supreme Court, a Court of Last Instance, concluded in June 2010 that it would not accept the case. Meanwhile, Canadian police are leading an investigation into the role played US-American and Syrian officials in the abduction and mistreatment of Arar.

ECCHR SUPPORTS 'EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION' CASE

AMICI CURIAE BRIEF FILED TO THE US SUPREME COURT IN THE CASE OF MAHER ARAR

In association with the Bar of England and Wales Human Rights Committee, ECCHR filed on 5 March 2010 an amici curiae brief supporting the petition of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights in the compensation case of Maher Arar. Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen, was arrested and abducted by US officials in 2002 and brought to Syria. In his one-year detention in Syria he suffered torture and was imprisoned under inhumane and degrading conditions. After his return to Canada a commission of inquiry, established by the Canadian government, shed light on his case.