Canadian prisoner who spent 10 years in Guantanamo Bay after battling U.S. troops in Afghanistan, will receive more than $10 million and an apology from the canadian government.
30-year-old Omar Khadr has filed a lawsuit against the canadian government for violation of international law. In his opinion, the government did not protect its citizen from the American invaders. In 2010, according to a statement on the guilty plea, military prosecutors in the USA Khadr admitted that he threw a grenade during a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan, which killed a member of the special forces of the US army. Then Omar was 15 years old.
The Khadr case has caused controversy among Canadians for many years. Many said that his sentence was too lenient. Others argued that it should be treated as a child soldier, Khadr supporters point to the alleged ill-treatment during detention in Guantanamo Bay, where he was the youngest inmate. The us military had in the past denied any abuse.
Khadr pleaded guilty to murder, attempted murder, providing material support to terrorism, spying and conspiracy in 2010 with the condition that he would serve most of the sentence in Canada, said his lawyers. As part of the transaction HADR got 8-year sentence without any borrowings. In 2012 Khadr was transferred from naval base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to his homeland of Canada to serve the remainder of his sentence. In 2015, the judge granted him bail when he appealed their convictions.
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