Top court says Canada complicit in Guantanamo case

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

Top court says Canada complicit in Guantanamo case 23 May 2008 17:04:03 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Randall Palmer

OTTAWA, May 23 (Reuters) - Canada took part in an illegal process when it gave the United States the results of interviews conducted in Guantanamo Bay with terrorism suspect Omar Khadr, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday.

The Canadian court said handing over the documents to the United States meant Canada had "participated in a process that was contrary to Canada's international human rights obligations."

In a unanimous decision, the court said Khadr was entitled to see at least some of the documents that Canada gave to the United States to help him prepare for his trial at the U.S. naval base in Cuba in late summer or early fall.

Khadr, the only Western prisoner still held at the Guantanamo Bay prison, faces charges of throwing a grenade that killed an American soldier and wounded another during a fight at an al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan in 2002.

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[Vincardog]

1. faces charges? That sounds like a legal term. Do they have them in KKKangaroo KKKourts?

[Hydra]

2. Charges, yes

ability to defend against charges? No.

[Vincardog]

3. No right except to be convicted and executed? Sounds like "We will give you a fair trial before we

hang you" from some bad B movie. Was saint Ronald in one like that?

[Hydra]

4. Dunno

But the last few years have felt like a bad B movie, and I'm not seeing an improvement as we go along.