Canada high court rules Guantanamo ex-inmate a child offender

[WorldNews]

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Canada's high court Thursday rejected Ottawa's bid to treat former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr, who was just 15 when he was captured on an Afghan battlefield, as an adult criminal. The government had brought the legal challenge to prevent Khadr's transfer from a Canadian federal penitentiary to a more comfortable provincial correctional facility for petty criminals and young offenders. Khadr was repatriated to Canada in September 2012, after spending 10 years in the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba following his arrest in Afghanistan as a teenager in 2002. In the meantime, Ottawa has resisted labelling Khadr a child offender, saying it was an attempt to lessen his punishment and get him out of prison sooner.

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