U.S. defends Arar deportation, declines to participate in Canadian inquiry
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OTTAWA (CP) - The United States insists that deporting Ottawa engineer Maher Arar to Syria as a suspected terrorist was in "the best interests" of America.
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CALGARY, Alberta  - Canada will formally protest to the United States over the case of a Canadian man deported to Syria by U.S. agents after he was accused of being connected with terrorist activity, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told President Bush on Friday.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 22  - US authorities on Wednesday defended a decision to deny entry to former British pop star Cat Stevens and deport him back to Britain &quot;on national security grounds.
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SEATTLE -- A man who gained refuge and later citizenship in Canada after fleeing Bosnia 10 years ago has been accused by U.S. immigration authorities of being a war criminal.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - A Canadian man who was deported from the United States and tortured in Syria because of false security fears said on Friday the resignation of Canada's top policeman does not absolve the government of responsibility in his case.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Attorney General John Ashcroft is opposing an appeal by John Walker Lindh, the so-called &quot;American Taliban.
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OTTAWA -- Canadian police wrongly identified an Ottawa software engineer as an Islamic extremist, prompting US agents to deport him to Syria, where he says he was tortured, an official inquiry concluded yesterday. Maher Arar, who holds Canadian and Syrian nationality, was arrested in New York in September 2002 and accused of being an Al Qaeda member. Arar, 36, says ...
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A US soldier has refused to fight in the US army and has asked for political asylum from Canada claiming that &quot;all Arabs and Muslims were shown as potential terrorists&quot; during military training.
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The Bush administration said on Friday it turned down a request from the Screen Actors Guild and other film industry groups to file a complaint against Canadian film subsidies at the World Trade Organization.
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A federal immigration judge in Los Angeles yesterday dismissed a 20-year-old effort by the U.S. government to deport two Palestinian activists who once supported a group later determined to be a terrorist organization, calling Washington's lengthy case against the men "an embarrassment to the rule...
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By DENNIS BUECKERT  OTTAWA (CP) - Federal officials are refusing to confirm or deny published reports that the position of Canada's ambassador for the environment has been abolished.
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Prosecutors in the Pentagon's Office of Military Commissions have appealed the dismissal of war crimes charges against a Canadian detainee held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, continuing their argument that detainees in U.S. custody can be tried under Congress's new rules for military commissions.
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GUATEMALA CITY, Jan 24 (IPS) - A Guatemalan court rejected accusations lodged by  CoordinaciÃ³n Genocidio  Nunca MÃ¡s (Genocide, Never Again)  Wednesday against the members of the  Constitutional Court, which  in December blocked the extradition to Spain of  seven people  accused of crimes against humanity.
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Stunned by revelations of police incompetence in the case of a Canadian man deported to Syria, the government launched an investigation on Tuesday into claims by three other men who say they were tortured in Syria because of information provided by Canadian authorities.
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An immigration judge Wednesday rejected an asylum application from a Guinean man whose case has attracted international support and who says his life will be in danger if he is deported to his homeland.
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MONTREAL (CP) - A Guatemalan who has lived in Quebec for 16 years went into hiding Friday rather than be deported over alleged war crimes he committed during the Central American country's civil war.
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Jose Padillaâs detention became the centerpiece of a debate over the Bush administrationâs prosecution of terrorism.