WHEN Canadian travelled secretly to Egypt to interrogate a jailed Toronto man, they averted their eyes to his torture, newly eleased documents show.
Their indifference to the the abuse of Ahmad El Maati "likely contributed indirectly" to his torture, writes former Supreme Court of Canada justice Frank Iacobucci.
Iacobucci views on the torture of El Maati and two other Arab-Canadian men emerged in a once-secret addendum to a 2008 report he wrote.
El Maati, who said he was repeatedly questioned on what he says were false confessions induced under torture in Syria, had been transferred to Egypt in January 2002 after a two-month detention in Syria.
El Maati bears the physical and psychological scars of Egyptian interrogations during which he was shackled, beaten and jolted with electrical shocks on his back, legs and genitals.
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