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Defence Minister Peter MacKay’s wife says Ottawa should bring Omar Khadr back to Canada immediately.
Nazanin Afshin-Jam told The Guardian, a Prince Edward Island newspaper, on Wednesday that the 25-year-old Canadian should be repatriated from Guantanamo Bay. For close to a decade, Mr. Khadr has been a prisoner there, following his arrest in Afghanistan in 2002.
As part of a plea-bargain deal in 2010, Mr. Khadr agreed to plead guilty to multiple charges. This included confessing to throwing a grenade at age 15 in Afghanistan that killed a U.S. soldier.
Mr. Khadr was given an eight-year sentence, with only one year to be served at the U.S. naval station on a leased base in Cuba. He’s been eligible to come to Canada since the fall of 2011, but the Conservative government, known for its reluctance to repatriate Canadians imprisoned abroad, has been slow to act.
On Wednesday, Ms. Afshin-Jam, a human-rights activist, joined those calling for Mr. Khadr’s return, including Alex Neve, the secretary-general of Amnesty International Canada.
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Further Reading
Omar Khadr, Oh Canada
Edited by Janice Williamson
In Omar Khadr, Oh Canada, over thirty contributors analyze Khadr's background, his incarceration, the actions of Canadian authorities, and the implications raised by his legal case. This multi-genre book includes essays, articles, poems, a play, extended excerpts from the documentary film You Don't Like the Truth, and other texts produced by distinguished contributors such as Sherene Razack, General Roméo Dallaire, Charles Foran, Kim Echlin, Judith Thompson, Audrey Macklin, Shadia Drury, George Elliott Clarke, Maher Arar, Rick Salutin, and Sheema Khan. While they sometimes disagree on issues such as radical Islam and Canadian multiculturalism, they all write from the conviction that Khadr's treatment has been – and continues to be – shamefully unjust and shaped by post 9/11 Islamophobia that continues to distort the views of many Canadians.
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