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

[Charlotte Kates]

Please distribute widely-

*Omar Khadr-Still in Jail After 11 Years: What's Next?*
  a talk by Omar Khadr's lawyer, Dennis Edney Q.C.

Tuesday April 16
7:00 pm
Room 1900
Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre
515 W. Hastings St.
Unceded Coast Salish Territories
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/353608814757688/

Hosted by the *"Vancouver Free Omar Khadr Now Committee"*
 Co-sponsored by the BC Civil Liberties Association, Lawyers against the
War, Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, No One is Illegal/Vancouver and
StopWar.ca; endorsed by Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW Pacific
Region), Seriously Free Speech Committee

www.facebook.com/pages/Vancouver-Free-Omar-Khadr-Now/385164918247731?fref=ts

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 Institution, he has no access to educational or
rehabilitation programs, and is still denied justice.**
*

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.


For more information on Omar Khadr please go to www.freeomarakhadr.com

freeomarkhadrnow at gmail.com

SFU Harbour Centre is accessible to everyone with mobility difficulties.








-- 
Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com



-- 
Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com