Omar Khadr held illegally in federal prison, lawyer argues
Source: CBC
Omar Khadr’s lawyer is arguing that the former Guantanamo Bay prisoner is being held illegally in a federal prison and should be released immediately.
In brief filed in Edmonton Court of Queen’s Bench last week, Dennis Edney argues that Khadr, 26, is being improperly held as an adult for crimes he committed as a youth in Afghanistan.
Under a plea deal reached in October 2010, a U.S. military commission sentenced Khadr to eight years in custody, but Edney argues that sentence doesn’t exist in Canada for adults, where the penalty for murder is life in prison.
“Had the five offences had been committed in Canada, an eight-year sentence could only have been imposed as a youth sentence,” the document states.
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