In July of 2002, Mr. Arar was detained in the U.S. on his way home to Canada on a flight from Zurich. The FBI told Canadian authorities they were going to question him and then send him back to Switzerland. Instead, they used the extraordinary rendition process and flew him to Jordan where he was picked up and driven to Syria.
Extraordinary rendition is the practice of transferring terror suspects from U.S. control into the control of foreign governments, so that interrogation methods that are not permitted under U.S. law may be applied.
Mr. Arar is every Canadian. No Canadian citizen should be deprived of liberty and held without charge. Canadians are against torture, because it is inhumane, it encourages flawed intelligence, and it doesn't make us safer. Yet, by its silence, the Canadian government has tacitly condoned the torturing of supposed enemy combatants in secret prisons around the world. Are we satisfied with having our moral authority undermined even as we preach moral values to others?
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