[news] Canada's Glaring Double Standards on Torture

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

by Andy Worthington, Author of _The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison_ - January 19/20, 2008 

...[T]he Canadian government is guilty of double standards in its refusal to act on behalf of **Omar Khadr**, the Canadian Guantánamo detainee who was just 15 years old when he was captured in Afghanistan in July 2002..."Omar has been there for five and a half years"..."and at some point in the course of [his] detention the Canadian government developed the suspicion he was being tortured and abused. And yet it has not acted to obtain his release from Guantánamo Bay and protect his rights, unlike every other Western country that has had its nationals detained in Guantánamo Bay", [said **Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler**, Khadr's U.S. military-appointed lawyer.]  


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