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Ex-Guantanamo inmate Omar Khadr appears in Canadian court
Source: BBC
24 September 2013 Last updated at 00:29 GMT
Ex-Guantanamo inmate Omar Khadr appears in Canadian court
A former Guantanamo detainee has appeared in a Canadian court, his first public outing since his capture in an Afghan firefight in 2002.
Lawyers for Omar Khadr, 27, challenged his terms of imprisonment at a hearing in Alberta, Canada on Monday.
He was 15 when detained, wounded, in Afghanistan after a gun battle during which he killed a US soldier.
He pleaded guilty to war crimes charges three years ago in exchange for an eight-year prison sentence.
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Ex-Guantanamo inmate Omar Khadr appears in Canadian court
A former Guantanamo detainee has appeared in a Canadian court, his first public outing since his capture in an Afghan firefight in 2002.
Lawyers for Omar Khadr, 27, challenged his terms of imprisonment at a hearing in Alberta, Canada on Monday.
He was 15 when detained, wounded, in Afghanistan after a gun battle during which he killed a US soldier.
He pleaded guilty to war crimes charges three years ago in exchange for an eight-year prison sentence.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24210902
Source: Associated Press
Ex-Gitmo Detainee Khadr to Appear in Canada Court
EDMONTON, Alberta September 24, 2013 (AP)
A Canadian judge deciding if former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr should be transferred from a federal prison said Monday his ruling will come down to whether he believes he is serving time as a youth or an adult.
Justice John Rooke said Monday that the U.S. military did not clarify that when it handed 27-year-old Khadr an eight-year sentence for killing an American special forces soldier in Afghanistan when Khadr was 15.
The Toronto-born Khadr pleaded guilty before a U.S. military commission in 2010 to killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan and was eligible to return to Canada from Guantanamo Bay in 2011 under terms of a plea deal.
Khadr was 15 when he was captured in 2002 in Afghanistan, and has spent a decade at Guantanamo, the U.S. naval base in Cuba. He received an eight-year sentence in 2010. He was convicted of throwing a grenade that killed Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer during a 2002 firefight.
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EDMONTON, Alberta September 24, 2013 (AP)
A Canadian judge deciding if former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr should be transferred from a federal prison said Monday his ruling will come down to whether he believes he is serving time as a youth or an adult.
Justice John Rooke said Monday that the U.S. military did not clarify that when it handed 27-year-old Khadr an eight-year sentence for killing an American special forces soldier in Afghanistan when Khadr was 15.
The Toronto-born Khadr pleaded guilty before a U.S. military commission in 2010 to killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan and was eligible to return to Canada from Guantanamo Bay in 2011 under terms of a plea deal.
Khadr was 15 when he was captured in 2002 in Afghanistan, and has spent a decade at Guantanamo, the U.S. naval base in Cuba. He received an eight-year sentence in 2010. He was convicted of throwing a grenade that killed Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer during a 2002 firefight.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/gitmo-detainee-khadr-canada-court-20352037