This is the legal complaint, in PDF form, in the lawsuit Arar just filed against Ashcroft et. al. If anyone familiar with this area of law can guess whether it has any chance of success, or at least not to be dismissed before discovery, please let me know.
New information/allegations:
1. In addition to the fact that U.S. officials falsely told Arar that his attorney had refused to attend one of interrogation sessions--an INS official called Arar's attorney on the morning of October 7, and told her he'd been transferred to the INS offices in Varick Street for "processing" en route to an INS detention facility in New Jersey. This was a lie. Later that day they called her and said he'd arrived in New Jersey; and told her to call back the next day to find his exact location. Again, this was not true; he was in the Brooklyn detention center the whole time. I can only assume that they wanted to prevent her from coming to see him before he could be deported.
2. During his interrogation by U.S. officials, Arar
--Was kept overnight in solitary confinement in room with no bed and the lights on.
--Was held without food for two days.
--Made repeated requests to make a phone call or see a lawyer, which were ignored
3. "The questions asked Mr. Arar by Syrian security officers in the Palestinian Branch bore a striking similarity to those asked Mr. Arar by FBI agents at JFK, in September, 2002."
The complaint says the INS' decision, which I assume is the one referred to in the Globe article, is attached to the complaint. It's not in the PDF, though.
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