Maher Arar

Maher Arar

male, 39 years old
Maher Arar (born 1970 in Syria) is a Canadian software engineer who is perhaps the most well-known victim of the United States policy of...
Murat Kurnaz

Murat Kurnaz

male, 27 years old
Murat Kurnaz (born March 19, 1982 in Bremen, Germany) was held in extrajudicial detention and claims to have been tortured in the U.S. military...
Ilan Halimi

Ilan Halimi

male, deceased (2006)
Ilan Halimi (1982? - 13 February 2006) was a young French Jew (of Moroccan parentage) kidnapped on 21 January 2006 by a gang of Muslim immigrants...
Abner Louima

Abner Louima

male, 43 years old
Abner Louima is a Haïtian immigrant who was assaulted and brutalized by New York City police officers after being arrested outside a Brooklyn n...
Patrick Chamusso

Patrick Chamusso

male
Patrick Chamusso (born in 1949 in Mozambique) is a former political prisoner, freedom fighter/terrorist and member of the African National Congress...
Jesse Dirkhising

Jesse Dirkhising

male, deceased (1999)
Jesse Dirkhising (May 24, 1986-September 26, 1999) was a 13-year-old boy who was raped and tortured by two men in 1999. Dirkhising died soon after...
Saint Quentin

Saint Quentin

male
Saint Quentin (d. 287 AD), also known as Quintinus, is a minor Christian saint. No details are known of his life; a legendary life has him as a...

Marie-Joseph Angélique

female, deceased (1734)
Marie-Joseph Angélique was the name given by the French authorities to a Portuguese-born black slave in New France (later the Province of Quebec i...

Polyeuctus

male
Saint Polyeuctus (Polyeuctes, Polyeuktos) of Melitene (d. January 10, 259) is an ancient Roman saint. Christian tradition states that he was a...

Jean-Louis Costes

male
Jean-Louis Costes is a noise musician. He was once the husband of Lisa Crystal Carver, and he helped write the backing noise-opera music of the...