CIA flights - Canada's role needs greater scrutiny

posted on January 27, 2006 | in Category Canada | PermaLink

Original author: PRESS RELEASE Source: Amesty Internation Canada URL: [link] Date: January 26, 2006 Amnesty Canada: CIA flights - Canada's role needs greater scrutiny Action Resources Letter Writing Tips "Rendition" and secret detention: Additional Information Letters to Canadian Government Request for Canada: CIA flights - Canada's role needs greater scrutiny Posted: 20 January 2006

[PHOTO: Condaleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State, issues statement denying the U.S. uses CIA flights to transport terror suspects to other countries for torture, 5 December 2005, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.] In October 2002, a Gulfstream III with the registration number N829MG (later re-registered as N259SK), was used to fly dual Syrian-Canadian citizen Maher Arar from the US to Jordan en route to Syria. After a year of detention without charge - during which time he was tortured - he was finally released and returned to Canada.

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