By THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - Accused terrorist Omar Khadr has won limited access to Canadian government documents to help defend himself against a murder charge before a U.S. military tribunal.
The Supreme Court of Canada. in a 9-0 judgment. agreed Khadr has a constitutional right to material directly related to interviews Canadian officials conducted with him during his detention at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay. Cuba.
contrary to U.S. domestic law and international law.

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada ordered Canadian authorities Friday to hand over secret files it shared with the United States on Omar Khadr, ruling that the normal practice of staying out of international investigations does not apply to the young terrorist suspect because Canada participated in an illegal process.
"By making the product of its interviews of Mr. Khadr available to U.S. authorities, Canada participated in a process that was contrary to Canada's international human rights obligations," said the 9-0 ruling.
at Guantanamo Bay without his lawyers being present.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ordered the federal government to hand over information to alleged terrorist Omar Khadr that it gleaned from interrogation sessions that Canadian agents held with him in 2003.
Now 21, Mr. Khadr's U. S. war-crimes trial is scheduled to begin later this year. His lawyers are seeking the material in order to prepare his defence.
. military process.

Omar Khadr, shown here at 15, is awaiting trial for murder at the US military jail in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Canadian Press) The Supreme Court of Canada

When someone with the accrued moral authority of Senator Romeo Dallaire throws his weight behind a cause, it behooves us all to listen carefully and to weigh his words attentively -even though his present cause concerns a member of the infamous Khadr family, a walking, talking argument (or proof, some would say) of the dangers of multiculturalism.
In his op ed in the Post, May 23, Senator Dallaire argues the case for bringing home Omar Khadr, whose ordeal began in 2002 when, at the age of 15, he took part in a firefight with U.S. troops in Afghanistan. He was imprisoned in Guantanamo as an adult combatant for having allegedly killed a U.S. serviceman, and treated pretty roughly during interrogation.
als" who made Omar what he is. Mr Khadr is dead, but Mrs Khadr is alive and well.

Khadr has been trying to access Canadian government documents for his defence against a murder charge in front of a US military tribunal.

OTTAWA–In February 2003, seven months after Omar Khadr was captured and flown to Guantanamo Bay, Canadian authorities were finally allowed to visit him.

AP GENEVA - US officials say they will review how many juveniles have been detained at the military prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

© AP TORONTO (AP) - Canada's Supreme Court will release a ruling on Friday that could find the U.S. is violating international norms by holding a Canadian former child soldier at Guantanamo Bay for allegedly killing a U.S. soldier with a grenade in a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan.
The high court has already said it could pass judgment
charges that he killed a U.S. soldier with a grenade in a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan when he was 15 years old.