The eight-year sentence, which was imposed in 2010 by a military commission in the U.S., would have ended last October had he remained in custody
Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr is to ask Alberta’s youth court today to declare his eight-year sentence to have expired.
But the clock stopped ticking when an Alberta judge freed him on bail in May 2015 pending Khadr’s appeal of a military commission conviction for war crimes – a years-long process that has no end in sight.His lawyer, Nate Whitling, has said that the youth court judge has the authority to terminate the sentence and say it’s over.
His application asks the judge to place Khadr under conditional supervision for one day then declare his sentence served. Khadr spent years in U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay after he was caught and accused of tossing a grenade that killed special forces soldier Christopher Speer at a militant compound in Afghanistan in 2001.
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