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: Essentially Contested AmericaU. S. Court Fails to Protect Basic Individual Rights
By Robert Justin Lipkin
dismissal of a lawsuit from
Canadian Maher Arar essentially enables the U.S. government to send foreigners
to be tortured, a lawyer with a human rights group representing Arar said
Monday. . . . 'It means that the U.S. can do to anyone what they did
to Maher,' said Maria LaHood, a senior attorney with the U.S.-based Center for
Constitutional Rights. . . . 'They can do it to anyone, to any foreign citizen, and
use the immigration process as a guise, basically, to send someone to be
tortured.' . . . Mr. Arar was labelled a member of al-Qaeda when he
switched planes at New York's Kennedy Airport in 2002 as he returned to Canada
from vacation." To continue reading click here. ECA has posted on Mr. Arar's tragic story before here, here, and here.Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on July 09, 2008 (boomark / email).
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