Source:
Canadian PressUpdated Sun. Aug. 12 2007 2:40 PM ET
CALGARY -- The Canadian Bar Association is calling for a Canadian detainee held at a U.S. military prison to be immediately released and turned over to Canada.
The Bar Association is urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to call on the U.S. government to turn 20-year-old Omar Khadr over to Canadian law enforcement officials to be dealt with under Canadian law.
In a letter to Harper, CBA President J. Parker MacCarthy warns that continuing to hold Khadr in Guantanamo Bay is an affront to the rule of law. ~snip~
Read more:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070812/khadr_release_070812/20070812?hub=Canada
Bar Association urges Harper to support Khadr trial in Canada
KIRK MAKIN
Globe and Mail Update
August 12, 2007 at 2:15 PM EDT
CALGARY — ~snip~ CBA President J. Parker MacCarthy received a standing ovation from delegates to association's annual convention this morning after he read a letter to the prime minister drafted overnight and speedily passed into policy by the association's executive committee.
The letter urges Mr. Harper to consider Mr. Khadr as he would any other underage accused person, and to allow the 20-year-old man — who was arrested five years ago on charges that he killed a U.S. serviceman in Afghanistan — to be tried under Canadian law.
"It would be unimaginable that this could happen to a 15-year-old in Canada," Mr. MacCarthy said in an interview.
Mr. Khadr, a member of a Toronto family that had strong links to the al-Qaeda movement, has been imprisoned at Guantanamo for the past five years — only one year less than the maximum possible sentence he could get for murder in a Canadian court. ~snip~
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070812.wmakin0812/BNStory/National/home