Articles tagged with: Omar Khadr
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 …
From CBC News
Last Updated: Thursday, April 23, 2009 | 4:30 PM ET
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is required to press the United States for the return of Omar Khadr to Canada from Guantanamo Bay to “comply …
SHEEMA KHAN
From Thursday’s Globe and Mail
Nascent relations between the Harper government and the Obama administration have been marked by the absence of public discourse about the fate of child soldier Omar Khadr.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper …
By Michelle Shephard
National Security Reporter,
The Toronto Star
ANALYSIS
Omar Khadr’s military lawyer was fired last Friday. Five days later, he was re-instated by a Guantanamo judge.
Navy Lt.-Cmdr. William Kuebler had appealed his dismissal, arguing that his superior …
By Christian Ehret, JURIST
US military judge Colonel Patrick Parrish ruled Tuesday that Pentagon officials lacked the authority to dismiss Lieutenant Commander William Kuebler as defense counsel for Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr.
Chief defense counsel …
Michelle Shephard
National Security Reporter
When Ottawa police received a routine 911 call for a suspected break-in last month, they could never have foreseen the strange saga that would unfold – one that involves a federal court …
WASHINGTON – The tales are horrifyingly medieval in nature – terror suspects beaten, bound and bleeding, forced into coffin-like boxes, shackled naked to their beds in darkened cells, deprived of food for weeks, forced underwater …
PAUL KORING AND OMAR EL AKKAD
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
Washington, Toronto – Ottawa won’t seek the return of Omar Khadr, the only Canadian and last remaining westerner left in Guantanamo, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon …
By ZIYAAD MIA
GUANTANAMO’S CHILD – The Untold Story of Omar Khadr
By Michelle Shephard
Wiley, 270 pages, $29.95
‘We’ve got to spend time in the shadows. … It is a mean, nasty, dangerous dirty business out there, …
