A/HRC/13/42* page 75 he had been transferred to the Syrian Arab Republic on 30 December 2001, in the presence of the Syrian Ambassador accredited to Morocco. • Three detainees were rendered to the Syrian Arab Republic on 14 May 2002: Abdul Halim Dahak, a student seized in Pakistan in November 2001, Omar Ghramesh and an unnamed teenager, the latter being seized with Abu Zubaydah in Faisalabad, Pakistan, on 28 March 2002.287 All had been tortured. Their current whereabouts are unknown. • Noor al-Deen, a Syrian teenager, was captured with Abu Zubaydah and rendered to Morocco, then to the Syrian Arab Republic.288 His current whereabouts are unknown. • According to Abdullah Almalki (see para. 148 below), two other prisoners, Barah Abdul Latif and Bahaa Mustafa Jaghel, were also transferred from Pakistan to the Syrian Arab Republic, the first in February/March 2002, the second in May 2002.289 Both had been tortured. Their current whereabouts are unknown. • Yasser Tinawi, a Syrian national seized in Somalia on 17 July 2002, was flown to Ethiopia by United States agents, who interrogated him for three months. On 26 October, he was flown to Egypt; on 29 October 2002, he arrived in the Syrian Arab Republic.290 In March 2003, he received a two-year sentence from a military court.291 • Maher Arar,292 a Canadian-Syrian national, was seized at John F. Kennedy airport in New York on 26 September 2002, held for 11 days in the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Manhattan, then rendered to the Syrian Arab Republic on 8 October, via Jordan,293 where he was held in secret detention at Far Falestin until later that month. 287 Stephen Grey, Ghost Plane: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Rendition Programme, Hurst & Co., 2006), pp. 4, 54 and 284. 288 Peter Finn and Joby Warrick, “Detainee’s harsh treatment foiled no plots”, Washington Post, 29 March 2009. Available from www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2009/03/28/AR2009032802066.html. 289 S. Grey, op. cit. 251. 290 Ibid., p. 252. 291 “Syrian authorities release some detainees”, Syrian Human Rights Committee news release, 18 February 2005, available from www.shrc.org/data/aspx/d1/2061.aspx. 292 Interview with Lorne Waldman, Senior Counsel of the Inquiry Legal Team representing Maher Arar (18 October 2009). See also Commission of inquiry into the actions of Canadian officials in relation to Maher Arar, available from http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/pcobcp/commissions/maher_arar/07-09-13/www.ararcommission.ca/eng/17.htm. 293 A/HRC/4/33/Add.3, paras. 33, 43-45, footnote 11.