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September 3, 2015

Canada Charges Syrian Colonel over Torture of Maher Arar 
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Canada has charged Syrian Colonel George Salloum with allegedly
torturing Canadian engineer Maher Arar. In 2002, Arar was rendered by
the United States to an overseas detention center in his native Syria,
where he was tortured and interrogated in a tiny underground cell for
nearly a year. This is the first-ever criminal charge of torture brought
by Canada against a foreign government official for acts committed
abroad. We'll have more on the case later in the broadcast.

 

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