rssWhen Rendition Victims Can’t Seek Justice
Monday, June 14, 2010 at 1:29 pm
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Via Kevin Drum, the Toronto Star reports that Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen captured in 2002 by U.S. officials and sent to Syria for a year’s worth of torture, has lost his appeal for a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Center for Constitutional Rights’s Maria LaHood said in a statement that the court ”has effectively condoned torture by denying Maher’s right to seek a remedy. It is now up to President Obama and Congress to apologize to Maher for what the Bush administration did to him, to make clear that our laws prohibiting torture apply to everyone, including federal officials, and to hold those officials accountable.”
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[...] Maher Arar may not have been able to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his appeal for redress after U.S. officials rendered him to Syria to be tortured. But Arar and his lawyers with the Center for Constitutional Rights are now disclosing that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have a criminal investigation into U.S. complicity with his abuse. From a CCR release just now, citing Arar attorney Maria LaHood: “The U.S. should be conducting its own criminal investigation of the officials responsible for sending an innocent man to Syria for a year to be interrogated under torture, not covering for them. Again, the Canadians are doing the right thing by criminally investigating not only Syrian officials, but officials from the U.S. as well. The Obama administration should look to the Canadian example and do what’s right – apologize to Maher and hold his torturers accountable.” [...]
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Comment posted June 14, 2010 @ 6:08 pm
We need to change the law so that torture victims (and their families) can get justice.
Comment posted June 14, 2010 @ 9:21 pm
Unfortunately, with so many in the government complicit, if not outright guilty, of torture (now including SCOTUS), justice and accountability are simply impossible.
Who says “bipartisanship” is dead…
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