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TORONTO — Canadian officials indirectly contributed to the torture of three Arab-Canadian men by sharing intelligence information with Syria and wrongly linking them to al-Qaeda, a federal inquiry concluded Tuesday.
Former Canadian Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci said the classified information was then used by Syrian authorities to interrogate the men about alleged terrorist links.
The men say they were wrongly labeled as terrorists by Canada’s federal police and intelligence agency. They were subsequently arrested on separate visits to Syria, imprisoned and tortured, only to be released without charge.
