Articles tagged with: Omar Khadr
By Sarah Boesveld
The federal government has asked the United States not to use Canadian-collected evidence in prosecutions against Omar Khadr, a gesture observers are calling “inadequate and invalid.”
In a statement released late Tuesday, Justice Minister …
Rob Oliphant, MP Condemns Conservative inaction on repatriation of Omar Khadr :
Download the PDF: Press Release-Omar Khadr
By Gloria Galloway
The Conservative government will not ask for Omar Khadr to be repatriated from an American detention centre in Cuba despite a Supreme Court ruling that his rights have been violated, the Foreign Affairs …
By Gar Pardy
The Supreme Court has spoken its last words on Omar Khadr. Regrettably it is a political decision and one that has little to do with justice, fundamental or temporal. Surprisingly all nine justices …
TORONTO STAR EDITORIAL
Are Canadians soft on terror? In the eyes of the nation’s spy chief, Richard Fadden, there’s no doubt about it. The recently appointed director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service fairly sang the …
TORONTO STAR EXCLUSIVE: Classified photos show Toronto-born Omar Khadr lying buried and hurt in a trench during a firefight in Afghanistan that killed a U.S. commando. His lawyers say that proves he couldn’t have thrown the lethal grenade
By Jennifer Green, The Ottawa Citizen
Canada and the United States haven’t shown as much savvy as Britain, Israel or Singapore in dealing with terrorism, says an Ottawa-based intelligence expert.
Instead, they rely on measures like …
From Toronto Star
Canada’s spy agency has just celebrated its 25th anniversary. But there’s little cheer in a damning report from the watchdog Security Intelligence Review Committee.
The committee’s survey of the role of the Canadian Security …
From CBC News
CSIS ignored human-rights concerns and did not take Omar Khadr’s age into account in deciding to interview him at the U.S. military’s Guantanamo Bay prison, says a report from the independent committee that …
From Amnesty International Canada
The Bar Council, the Law Society, the Criminal Bar Association, the Commonwealth Lawyers’ Association and the Bar Human Rights Committee have today called on the Attorney General of the United States of …
The analysis and argument in this excellent and forceful essay from Britain could just as well apply to Canada (and several other members of the ‘coalition of the willing’), …
By Bob Weber
THE CANADIAN PRESS
SASKATOON – The federal government is being accused of violating Omar Khadr’s basic rights every day it …
Colin Perkel
THE CANADIAN PRESS
The judge presiding over Omar Khadr’s military commission proceedings issued an order today that the hearings, abruptly halted by U.S. President Barack Obama in January, are to go ahead on June …
From CBC News
There were mixed messages from the government over whether the Tories will appeal a Federal Court judge’s ruling that Canada must press the U.S. for the return of Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay.
During …
