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Rendition Victim Loses US Torture Appeal

Technicality KOs case at center of recent movie

By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 1, 2008 7:56 AM CDT

(Newser) – A Canadian software engineer has lost an appeal against the US for his torture in Syria on a technicality, Reuters reports. Syrian-born Maher Arar, whose story inspired the Hollywood movie Rendition, was forced off a flight in New York in 2002 and shipped to Syria,... Read full story »

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