Canada's secret documents on Khadr's treatment revealed

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Source: Globe and Mail

July 9, 2008 at 10:45 PM EDT

TORONTO and OTTAWA — Secret documents unsealed late Wednesday show for the first time the extent to which the federal government knew of the conditions facing Omar Khadr inside the ultra-secret prison of Guantanamo Bay.

Canada's only prisoner held at the controversial U.S. military camp was placed in a special program that intentionally deprived him of sleep and saw him moved every three hours for 21 days in order to “make him more amenable and willing to talk” prior to a visit by Canadian officials to Cuba.

The orders, carried out by U.S. officials, are contained in the selected release of until now “Canadian Eyes Only” documents that contain written summaries of video-recorded interviews with the then-17-year-old in 2003 and 2004.

Disclosure of the documents are just ahead of the release of widely anticipated videotape footage of the interviews that will provide the first glimpse of a Guantanamo prisoner being questioned inside the prison.



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