An Alberta judge is expected to rule today on whether a war crimes sentence for former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr should be declared expired. The eight-year sentence imposed in 2010 would have ended last October had Khadr remained in custody.
Published Monday, March 25, 2019 4:10AM EDT
His application asks the judge to place Khadr under conditional supervision for one day then declare his sentence served.Whitling says the appeal of the sentence in the United States hasn't moved forward at all and it would be unfair to use that against him. Khadr spent years in U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay after he was captured and accused of tossing a grenade that killed special forces soldier Christopher Speer at a militant compound in Afghanistan in 2001.
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