In 2002, the U.S secretly sent Maher Arar to his home country Syria, after authorities said he had connections with the Al Qaeda terrorist group. Thursday, an investigator from the Department of Homeland Security announced that the investigation regarding Arar’s treatment would be reopened.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Inspector General Richard L. Skinner said that the new evidence showed that U.S. officials seemed to have violated a law that doesn’t allow the American government to send back to their home country people likely to be tortured there.

Canadian officials mentioned that Arar was, indeed, tortured in Syria, being kept in a very small, dark cell. Canada’s government also admitted that the information supplied to the U.S. was not all correct and that was the reason which, probably, conducted to his arrest. Moreover, neither Syria nor Canada could produce evidence to link Arar to Al Qaeda.

In 2007, Canada apologized to Arar and said to pay him, as compensation for what he had been through, almost $10 million.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on constitution, civil rights and civil liberties, said that those responsible for this should go to jail.

"There was a deliberate plot to abuse the procedures so they could railroad Arar to Syria, where they knew he would be tortured. Senior American officials ought to go to jail for this," said Nadler, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Arar was arrested in September 2002 at JFK International Airport. The 4-years investigation regarding his treatment received from the U.S. authorities showed that they acted appropriately.

It was only one month ago that a new investigation concluded that U.S. authorities had broken the law in Arar’s case.