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2011-04-19 Khadr defense accuse Guantanamo prosecutors of trickery
Defense attorneys for Canadian child soldier Omar Khadr, filed a motion yesterday requesting that Khadr's sentence be reduced from eight years to four. Defense claims that prosecutors had misled them...
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2011-04-26 The Guantanamo Children: These Aren't What You'd Call 'Little...
*With research assistance from Heather MarshPakistani national Naqib Ullah (also Naqibullah) was 14 years old and out doing an errand for his father when he was kidnapped from his village in Khan,...
View Article2011-04-28 'Abdul Khadr' and other errors in the Guanatanamo files
The first Canadian Guantanamo file released was Omar Khadr, a much anticipated and very thin file that discussed the captured child's intelligence value as a son of a suspected Al Qaeda member and...
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2011-04-30 Omar Khadr's counsel: "There is nothing about this Canadian...
Co-authored by Alexa O'BrienWL Central's Heather Marsh spoke this week to Dennis Edney, the Canadian defense counsel for Guantanamo inmate Omar Khadr. Following is an excerpt from the interviews.Click...
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2011-05-04 The Hunger Strikers of Guantanamo As Detailed in Files Released by...
Hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay are known to have engaged in hunger strikes at the prison in protest of conditions and their prolonged confinement without trial. A recent report from Jason...
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2011-05-06 Abdullah Khadr wins extradition appeal
In December 2005, Abdullah Khadr, older brother of Omar, Abdurahman and Abdul Karim Khadr and younger brother of Zaynab, returned to his home in Toronto, Canada after fourteen months of being held in a...
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2011-05-19 Omar Khadr Part 1 of 4: “Omar Khadr is a lovely young man”
Omar Khadr (centre in the picture at left) was born in Toronto, Canada on September 19, 1986. His father was an Egyptian born Canadian who ran charities to provide food and education for orphans, and...
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2011-05-19 Omar Khadr Part 2 of 4: Canada, the entire world is still watching
"There would be virtually no political blowback domestically for the Conservative Party if the government chooses to pursue an appeal, making this a strong likelihood.”The above statement from US State...
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2011-05-20 Moazzam Begg refused board on Air Canada #cdnpoli
Moazzam Begg, a British citizen who was held at Guantanamo Bay for three years with no charge, was barred from boarding an Air Canada flight to Toronto today. Omar Khadr's defense attorney, Dennis...
View Article2011-05-21 Updates from defense attorney Dennis Edney regarding Moazzam Begg...
Canadian defense attorney Dennis Edney is involved in four of the cases we are currently covering. WL Central has received updates from him on three of them.Moazzam Begg, a high profile advocate for...
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2011-05-21 Omar Khadr Part 3 of 4: “The world doesn't get it”
Dennis you always say that I have an obligation to show the world what is going on down here and it seems that we've done every thing but the world doesn't get it, so it might work if the world sees...
View Article2011-05-23 UPDATE: Omar Khadr Supreme Court review denied, request for...
Updated information from Khadr's legal counsel states that the Supreme Court dismissal this morning related to a years old appeal from Khadr that was actually disallowed last fall by the terms of his...
View Article2011-05-24 Dennis Edney, Lawyer For Omar Khadr speaks on Fear, Injustice and...
"The only crime in my view, equal to willful inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence and forgetting."Dennis Edney, Lawyer For Omar Khadr speaks on Fear, Injustice and his Guantanamo visits in...
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2011-06-06 Omar Deghayes on Omar Khadr
Authored by Alexa O'Brien and Heather Marsh.Omar Deghayes is a UK citizen who was imprisoned in Guantánamo in January 2002 and freed from there on December 18, 2007. Details of his treatment in...
View Article2012-07-29 The undermining of Canadian values in the delay to approve...
The Minister of Public Safety in Canada, Vic Toews, recently made comments about Omar Khadr's potential transfer to Canada from Guantánamo Bay, where he has been incarcerated since 2002 when he was...
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