Canadian Security Intelligence Service: Arar

Lorne Waldman Dept: Ministerial instructions to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency CBSA leave the door open to the kind of information exchanges that led to Arar's torture in Syria a decade ago, says Toronto lawyer Lorne Waldman, according to Vancouver Sun. Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian, was detained at a New York airport in September 2002, winding up in a grim Damascus prison. Under torture, he falsely confessed to Syrian military intelligence officers about being involved with al-Qaida and oTTAWA - A lawyer who represented torture victim Maher Arar says information-sharing directives issued to federal security agencies show the government hasn't learned anything about shunning brutality. "It's extremely disappointing that after all of these years, and after all of the effort, we're not any further ahead than we were," Waldman said in an interview. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.