[van-announce] April 16: Free Omar Khadr Now - Public talk with Dennis Edney. Please attend and distribute notice.

[Charlotte Kates]

Omar Khadr: Still in Jail After 11 Years.  What´s
Next?<http://freeomarakhadr.com/>
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Dennis Edney, Q.C. ****


Tuesday, April 16, 2013  7:00 - 9:00pm
****SFU** **Harbour**** Centre, ****515 West Hastings St.****
Free Admission****

(on unceded Coast Salish territory)****

Organized by the ****Vancouver**** Free Omar Khadr Now Committee****

freeomarkhadrnow at gmail.com <http://goog_1320541568>****

www.freeomarakhadr.com****

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FREE OMAR KHADR NOW!****


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, deprived of
medication for his wounds, Omar was eventually convicted by an illegal
military process based on a confession extracted by torture.  No evidence
of his guilt was ever produced.  The offences that he confessed to
committing were not crimes in 2002 and therefore prosecution is universally
barred.  A **U.S.** appeals court threw out similar charges against another
**Guantanamo** prisoner

**Canada** was the lone Western country not to secure the release of its
citizen from ****Guantanamo****.  In 2012 Khadr was finally returned to ****
Canada**** and is currently imprisoned at Millhaven maximum security
prison, deprived of access to basic education and rehabilitation programmes.

A new group has formed in ****Vancouver**** to work locally and nationally
to free Omar Khadr  Join us to help right this terrible injustice.

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Dennis Edney, QC****

Dennis Edney is Omar Khadr´s Canadian lawyer. He is the recipient of the
2009 Human Rights Medal awarded by the Lieutenant Governor of British
Columbia for work that “has helped to promote and further human rights”.
Edney has lectured extensively with emphasis on the Rule of Law, to
organizations, universities and conferences throughout **North America**.
He has been a keynote speaker on behalf of Amnesty International, speaking
at **Trinity** **College**, **Dublin**, on the Rule of Law (2005); and in **
**London**, **England****, at the international conference on the “Global
Struggle against Torture” (2005). ****




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Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com