[van-announce] April 16: Omar Khadr - Still in Jail After 11 Years: What's Next?

[Charlotte Kates]

*Omar Khadr - Still in Jail after 11 Years: What's Next?*
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*A talk by Dennis Edney, QC*
*Omar Khadr's Lawyer and BC 2009 Human Rights Recipient*
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*Tuesday, April 16*
*7 pm - 9 pm*
*SFU Harbour Centre*
*515 West Hastings St, Vancouver*
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*Free Admission*

At 15, Omar Khadr was captured by US Special Forces in Afghanistan and
charged several years later with the death of a U.S. soldier. For 11 years
he has been imprisoned in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and now Canada. Kept
in solitary confinement, tortured, and deprived of medication for his
wounds, Omar was convicted by an illegal military process based on a
confession extracted by torture. No evidence of his guilt was ever
produced. The offences to which he confessed were not crimes in 2002, and
therefore prosecution is universally banned. A U.S. appeals court threw out
similar charges against another Guantanamo prisoner.

Canada was the only western country to not secure the release of its
citizen from Guantanamo. In 2012 Omar was returned to Canada. Now in the
maximum-security Millhaven Institute, he has no access to educational or
rehabilitation programs.

Canadian lawyer Dennis Edney is a frequent, international speaker on legal
matters, including the rule of law as it relates to the war on terror. He
was the Keynote Speaker on the Rule of Law for Amnesty International at
Trinity College, Dublin in 2005 and at the Global Struggle against Torture
conference in London, UK, in 2005.  He is the recipient of the 2009 British
Columbia Human Rights Medal.

This talk is organized by the Vancouver Free Omar Khadr Now Committee,
which is committed to working locally and nationally to free Omar Khadr.
Join us to help right this terrible injustice.
freeomarkhadrnow at gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vancouver-Free-Omar-Khadr-Now/385164918247731
https://www.freeomarakhadr.com/
FREE OMAR KHADR NOW!


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Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com