Articles tagged with: Omar Khadr
From YFile
Criminal lawyer and civil rights activist Marlys Edwardh (York University, LL.B ’74), known for her work with the wrongly accused, told future lawyers Friday that the greatest challenge of their era will arise from …
By Sheila Pratt
EDMONTON — Defence lawyers went to federal court in Edmonton Tuesday to try to force a review of the government’s refusal to repatriate Omar Khadr, the Canadian accused of killing an American soldier …
By Paul Koring
Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Station, Cuba
Omar Khadr, then a gravely wounded 15-year-old, was routinely trussed up in a cage “in one of the worst places on Earth,” according to a hulking former military …
By Paul Koring
Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Station, Cuba
Preliminary talks have been held to end Omar Khadr’s war-crimes trial with a plea bargain that could lead to his release and repatriation to Canada, but agreement from …
By Paul Koring
In shackles and flanked by military guards, Omar Khadr will be taken this week from the razor-wire-ringed Guantanamo Bay prison compound where he has spent almost a third of his life to a …
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 …
