What Happened to Mahar Arar in Syria?

Mahar arar a syrian and canadian citizen on his way home to canada after a vacation in syria in 2002 was detained by us authorities at jfk airport under charges of being brown mahar was not a terrorist but the us intelligence agencies thought he might be so they sent him over to syria. Arar was interrogated for 18 hours per day and was physically and psychologically tortured he falsely confessed among other things to having trained with terrorists in afghanistan even though he had never been to afghanistan and had never been involved in terrorist activity. In may 2007 amid bishar's reelection and a referendum to another seven-year term i noticed something in him that