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Maher Arar

Canadian citizen who was a victim of U.S. extraordinary rendition in 2002. He was seized at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport in September 2002 and sent to Syria, where he was tortured and interrogated in a tiny underground cell for nearly a year. He now works as a human rights advocate in Canada.

StoryAug 28, 1997

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