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US Court Ruling On Arar Enables Gov't To Send Foreigners To Torture, Says Lawyer NEW YORK - A United States appeals court decision upholding the dismissal of a lawsuit from Canadian Maher Arar essentially enables the U.S. government to send foreigners to be tortured, a lawyer with a human rights group representing Arar said Monday. "It means that the U.S. can do to anyone what they did to Maher," said Maria LaHood, a senior attorney with the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights. "They can do it to anyone, to any foreign citizen, and use the immigration process as a guise, basically, to send someone to be tortured."

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US Court Ruling On Arar Enables Gov't To Send Foreigners To Torture, Says Lawyer

NEW YORK - A United States appeals court decision upholding the dismissal of a lawsuit from Canadian Maher Arar essentially enables the U.S. government to send foreigners to be tortured, a lawyer with a human rights group representing Arar said Monday.

"It means that the U.S. can do to anyone what they did to Maher," said Maria LaHood, a senior attorney with the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights.

"They can do it to anyone, to any foreign citizen, and use the immigration process as a guise, basically, to send someone to be tortured."