Edmonton judge to rule on whether Omar Khadr should be moved from federal prison
EDMONTON – An Edmonton judge is to release his decision today on whether former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr should be transferred from a prison in Alberta.
Justice John Rooke heard an application last month from Khadr’s lawyer, who wants the 27-year-old moved out of the maximum-security Edmonton Institution and into a provincial jail.
Dennis Edney told the court that his client should be treated as a young offender.
The Toronto-born Khadr pleaded guilty in 2010 to five war crime offences, including murder, for killing an American soldier in Afghanistan when he was 15.
A U.S. military commission sentenced him to eight years, but did not specify if it was a youth or adult sentence.
Khadr was transferred to Canada from Guantanamo Bay last fall.
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