Ex-Guantanamo inmate granted transfer
The Associated Press | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 11 months AGO
EDMONTON, Alberta — Alberta’s top court has granted an application by former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr to be transferred to a provincial jail from a federal medium-security prison in the western Canadian province.
The Appeal Court has ruled the 27-year-old should be serving a youth sentence.
Khadr lost his bid for a transfer last fall, then appealed.
Khadr pleaded guilty in 2010 to five war crime offenses, including killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan when he was 15. The Toronto-born Khadr was transferred to Canada from the military base in Guantanamo Bay in September 2012.
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