NEWSLETTER Free Omar Khadr Now - BAIL OMAR KHADR - MARCH 2015
Why Omar Khadr Deserves Bail - Editorial Globe and Mail
| March 25, 2020
…. Mr. Khadr was not tried in anything resembling a normal, First World legal process. He pleaded guilty under duress: He faced indefinite incarceration without trial unless he pled guilty. The crimes themselves were invented retroactively. The court did not follow normal American domestic or military law, and it denied standard legal protections to the accused, who was a child when he was captured.
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Time to Set Omar Khadr Free - Editorial Toronto Star
| March 26, 2020
“But one thing is clear: Khadr has done more than enough time. He presents no credible threat to Canadian society and should be set free to take up an offer to live with the family of his longtime Edmonton lawyer, attend a Christian university there and rebuild his life”
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“Hypocritical blather on Khadr” - Letters to the Editor, Toronto Star
By Chris McNaught, Ottawa lawyer | March 27, 2020
- Re: Khadr a pawn in cross-border politics, Toronto Star - Michelle Shephard | March 25, 2020
What hypocritical blather from two federal puppets. First, from federal lawyer Bruce Hughson in opposing Omar Khadr’s bail application: “It’s critically important that Canada meet its international obligations” — you mean, by recognizing Khadr’s clear status as a “child soldier” under the UN protocol originally championed by Canada? Or, by formally condemning — it never has — the perversion of international law through torture, abuse and other crimes at Guantanamo, in whose tenure, by way specifically of our off-loading of Khadr, Canada is complicit? Second, from Jeremy Laurin (Minister Steven Blaney’s press conduit): “Omar Khadr pleaded guilty to heinous crimes . . .” — any criminal lawyer with a pulse understands the plea was made to avoid Khadr spending his entire life in either Guantanamo or a U.S. prison. No allegations were ever proven by trial and tested evidence, and there is no legitimate international law providing a charge of “murder” against a soldier in any armed conflict defending himself against an enemy assault.
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Misleading headlines - Letters to the Editor, Edmonton Journal
By Helen Sadowski, Edmonton
- Re: Khadr seeks bail in Edmonton court (Edmonton bail hearing starts Tuesday in case of “convicted terrorist” Omar Khadr)
All stories on the Edmonton Journal’s website that carried news about Omar Khadr’s bail hearing included in the headline “convicted terrorist.” That phrase, so emotionally charged and misleading, should have had a huge asterisk beside it. Omar Khadr was put before a military tribunal that was outside the American legal system and Geneva Conventions. The main evidence against him was a confession obtained through torture and illegal interrogation methods.
It’s time to use another headline.
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In room 317, with Omar Khadr’s Edmonton ‘family’ - Metro News
By Omar Mouallem | March 30, 2020
… Khadr, in blue jeans and a white polo, sat in a box off to the side. He could spot the orange ribbons and friendly faces in the courtroom, thanks to corrective eye surgery last month, repairing his right eye from the shrapnel that blinded his other eye. So when they smiled and waved, he was able to smile and wave back.
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