Canada has apologised to a software engineer and paid him $8.9m in compensation after he was deported to Syria by US agents because Canadian police had mistakenly said he was an Islamic extremist.
...He has said he was repeatedly tortured during the year he spent in detention in Damascus, the Syrian capital...
The deportation has strained diplomatic relations between the USA and Canada.
Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, once again urged Washington to remove Arar from its security watch list as he announced the settlement on Friday.
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