Maher Arar
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"Maher Arar" (born 1970) is a telecommunications engineer with dual Syrian and Canadian citizenship who has resided in Canada since 1987. Arar's story is frequently referred to as "extraordinary rendition" but the US government insisted it was a case of deportation.

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I still have the nightmares. I see the same person who tortured me in my dreams.

They are doing this to people and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. This is an evil practice, and I want them to acknowledge it. I want them to acknowledge that what they did to me was wrong.

But I felt the moral obligation to help prevent what happened to me from happening to our people.

They kept telling me, 'You are a liar,'.

He always wants to come with me. He insists, and he cries if I can't take him. He's afraid that if I go, I won't ever come back.