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Tales of the tortured: Liveblogging the release of the Iacobucci Report

1:49:18 PM
Another day, another trek to the National Press Theatre – but while yesterday, it was politics – Liberal party politics, to be precise – on the agenda, today it is the conduct of a past Liberal government under scrutiny; specifically, the treatment meted out to three Arab Canadian men by both their own government, and foreign governments, particularly Syria. For the better part of a year, retired justice Frank Iacobucci has been holding in camera hearings into allegations that these men were victims of the same sort of neglect in the name of national security that led to the deportation, imprisonment and torture of Maher Arar.