Maher Arar
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title:
Maher Arar
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Maher Arar is a telecommunications engineer with dual Syrian and Canadian citizenship who has resided in Canada since 1987. Arar was detained during a layover at John F. Kennedy International Airport in September 2002 on his way home to Canada from a family vacation in Tunis. He was held without charges in solitary confinement in the United States for nearly two weeks, questioned, and denied meaningful access to a lawyer. The US government suspected him of being a member of Al Qaeda and deported
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Syrian-Canadian telecommunications engineer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar
date created:
2003-03-07T06:40:17Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T05:37:59Z
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