Topic: Omar Khadr
Canada's Supreme Court ruled Friday that it will not force the government to seek the repatriation of the youngest detainee held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay. Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has steadfastly refused to request the return of Canadian-born Omar Khadr ...
Rather than shutting Guantanamo, the U.S. military is gearing up for the war-crimes trial of a former child soldier at the navy base on southeastern Cuba this summer. The case of detainee Omar Khadr highlights how President Barack Obama has struggled to carry out a pledge ...
Canada's federal government is urging the country's top court to overturn a judicial order that obligates the government to seek the repatriation of the youngest detainee held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay. Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has steadfastly refused to request the return ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian courts grossly overstepped their authority when they ordered Ottawa to ask Washington to repatriate a Canadian held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, a lawyer for the federal government argued on Friday. The government wants the Supreme Court of Canada to overturn lower court decisions that ruled it had to ask the United States ...
