Repatriate Omar Khadr
Lawyers Without Borders Canada Rallies the Legal
Community The Canadian Government Must Repatriate
Omar Khadr Lawyers Without Borders Canada (LWB), with the support of the Canadian legal community, calls the Canadian Government to immediately take all the necessary steps with the United States of America in order to repatriate Omar Khadr so that his case be dealt with in Canada by competent, independent and impartial authorities. Consult the Request. LWB’s call to repatriate Omar Khadr is endorsed by the Quebec Bar, the Canadian Bar Association, the Young Bar Association of Montreal, the Réseau des juristes d’Amnistie internationale Canada francophone, Amnesty International Canada Legal Network, Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, the Ligue des droits et libertés and Canadian Lawyers Abroad. In a 22 points statement, LWB explains why no valid legal argument supports the opinion according to which the repatriation of Omar Khadr cannot be requested because a so-called process is underway in the United States. Consult LWB’s statement on Omar Khadr. Omar Khadr is a Canadian citizen who was captured by the U.S. army during a combat in Afghanistan when he was 15. He therefore was a child soldier according to international law. Transferred in October 2002 to the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval base in Cuba, he has been deprived of his liberty for 6 years in breach of numerous rights guaranteed under international law, including those applying specifically to the underage. Omar Khadr has most probably been victim of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatments, including allegations of torture. The military commission that will judge him is not an independent and impartial tribunal. It applies a procedure based on the presumption of guilt that is tantamount to a travesty of justice and that violates the minimal norms of international law as well as of Canadian and U.S. law. If he is repatriated in Canada, Omar Khadr will not find himself in a situation of impunity. A true judicial tribunal could, as the case may be, determine his innocence or guilt after a fair and just trial that respects the rule of law. Join Lawyers Without Borders and the Canadian legal community in requesting Omar Khadr’s repatriation. Distribute LWB’s Statement and flyer. Download our ringtone and make it heard. Participate in the week of action in favour of Omar Khadr’s repatriation. Sign petitions and send e-cards to the Canadian government.
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6 juin 2008
6 juin 2008
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